rate and imposing a 25% minimum tax on wealthy americans. here with a look at the coming showdown in congress our wall street journal columnists khan henninger and mary anastasia o grady and editorial board member kyle peterson. so, dan, i couldn t help but notice that the new york times this week portrayed the president s budget as moving to the center. is that how you see it? [laughter] whoa. well, it may be where the new york times describes the center. no, that budget moves smartly to the left. i mean, senator elizabeth warren was beside herself over all the tax increases on the wealthy. she just thought it was great. you know, this is really a peter pan judgment, paul. you just spread pixie dust everywhere, and the economy takes off. we could make fun of it, we say it s not going to happen because of the republican house. i could make a couple points about in this. one, if perchance, this is a campaign speech concern a campaign budget, there s no question about it, a
D. C. Today the Biden Campaign lo launches the difference between communities and communities of colors. The first criminal trial of an expresident comes to a head this week. A former advisor is here. Overnight, to senators are calling for Justice Samuel alito to recuse himself from election cases. Grab your coffee and settle in. Welcome to the weekend. New this morning, federal prosecutors are asking for help as donald trump increases his attacks on the justice system. The special Councils Office is now asking the judge in the classified documents case to block trump for Making Statements that could endanger Law Enforcement investigating and prosecuting him in that case. The request comes after trump falsely claimed the Biden Administration authorized the fbi to use deadly force against him during the 2022 maralago rate. Of course, that is not true. The Justice Department of course followed the standard policy. Just one escalation this week of trumps Outrageous Campaign rhetoric. Anot
concern. desantis portrays a kind of tough guy persona, and the fact is i probably think he is kind of a tough guy. when he said we took on the experts, he really did down there in florida. we have got to remember when he was refusing to shut state down. the mainstream media was absolutely hammering ron desantis, and he never stepped back. i think the more interesting is whether that persona is going to play in the republican primaries especially if, i mean, there s no indication yet to say if virginia governor glenn youngkin is going to get in, but i m just setting him up as an example of a republican who convey it is same sort of willingness to the fight with the other side but doesn t have quite as hard an edge as ron desantis does. and you ve got to run through an entire set of republican primaries. people are going to tim scott, for instance, do does not have the hard edge that ron desantis does. so we re going to find out what republicans appetite is out
the devotion worse than reality. why did they need to framed with this tough guy persona? it s a good question. i think about in recent weeks we saw the media asked joe biden what flavor of ice cream he got, and he said chocolate chocolate chip. when he took a test drive in a car they cheered and applauded like it was the most exciting thing they d ever seen. so we know that they are really willing to go over the top in praise of him but in this case, it s just something altogether different because we all saw what happened. we all saw that he wasn t particularly strong against putin. we know the whole purpose of this summit with him was to create some guidelines for cyberattacks, terrorism attacks that the u.s. believes russia has committed. of course by the end of that summit, putin denied that they had any role, so certainly not something where biden was tough for particularly effective. the other thing though i think is the media believed that the
that s true. and they don t stand up for the fbi when the fbi director goes up to capitol hill and begs paul ryan and devin nunes not to release classified information. they don t do it publicly because there s no percentage in it for them and it won t change trump. why are they so lame? why doesn t one republican say they d rather lose than watch this president decimate the justice department? you get a federal check and no one is asking you to land on the beach but it s a tough, cynical business and don t think it would move the needle. sessions has been playing this smart. for all his tough guy persona, firing gilbert godfried on a tv show where he s pretended to work for you is a different kind of tough guy and eyeball to eyeball with sessions, sessions has just ignored him. trump has sent every dog whistle in the world you ought to resign. sessions is like, yeah, that s interest, and on he goes. mattis will probably do the same. i d bet money that general mattis, ex-marine