senate held its impeachment trial today. that procession happened yesterday. today was the trial. despite every attempt by republicans to delay the inevitable it took all of three hours for the senate majority to dismiss them as unconstitutional. ending the proceeding. watching all of this. maybe you think of a parent watching, a young child grabs her phone and pretends to be on a work call doing their six- year-old impersonation of the meeting. the impeachment of mayorkas had most of the formal elements with zero of the understanding of the underlien content. during a week that donald trump s trial is starting. and it is falling apart after taking control just a little over a year ago. congressman robert garcia
this week, in manhattan criminal court, people reported for jury duty. many of them were considered for the very first trial of an ex-president. a bunch of them told the court there is no way i can serve on this jury. there is no way i can be impartial about this man. others who made it through the initial round of questions who said i think i can do it, then had their social media posts about the former president read aloud into the official record as they and trump sat and listened. it went something like a jimmy kimmel mean tweets skit. good news, trump lost his court battle and his unlawful travel ban. get him out and lock him up. watch out for stupid tweets by d.j. t. some memes as picture of
possible. more people dislike him than like him by a margin of nearly 12% though that has been higher in the past. both in 2016 and 2020, donald trump lost the popular vote in this big great complicated country of ours by a significant margin. by 2.8 million votes in 2016. by 7 million votes in 2020. neither election was that close to be totally honest. trump has displayed what vanity fair calls losing touch with trump endorsed candidate after candidate going down. but because of that one victory in 2016, people believe a small set of elites dislike donald trump and the real folks love him and that perception exploded in a place where the people congregate. in a jury room in a courthouse.
this is not a guy who likes to sit and think. and i was also thinking about michael daley, he happened to have jury duty with donald trump. and he came back to the office and he reported he sat there, i will never forget it, like a bag of cement. he had no interior life. and the lights just seem to shut off. and nobody was home. he can t sit still i assume because it is terrifying. in some ways the trial itself is its own kind of prison for him. it might be as close as he will ever get. this is the weird aspect of this whole thing. he feeds so much off attention whether positive or negative that negative attention he will take. that deep pathology. here the judge is actively telling him to sit still and be quiet. it is also the case, the
million. jobless claims tsunami tops 22 million. a jobless tsunami. four years ago today this very day. the same day the u.s. recorded the highest number of lives lost to the virus in 24 hours. nearly 5,000 americans dead. now, listen to the reporting from that night s evening news versus what donald trump was saying in his 144-minute press conference that day. tonight, the battle over reopening america as the u.s. death toll surges to over 36,000. you have fewer people that are sick. fewer people who feel they have to go to a hospital. the numbers are dropping. you will hear a lot about reopenings in the coming weeks and month. president trump tweeting a call to liberate single states. they don t have a decline in cases yet. yet you tweeted out today you would like to liberate them. they are very, very, very, what they have done is very powerful in terms of i think,