…I am — war both literally and figuratively — which is why I am firmly resolved to avoid as much of this acutely combative political year as I can. Which doesn't mean I won't vote in November — I will, and at the polls, like old people do. But it won't take me any six months to decide. And it doesn't mean I won't enjoy the ridiculousness of the thing, at least a little.
Like this lede in a Washington Post story this morning about the beginning of Trump's "hush money" trial that began yesterday.
NEW YORK — Donald Trump oversaw a “planned, coordinated, long-running conspiracy to influence the 2016 election…”“…It was election fraud, pure and simple,” Assistant District Attorney Matthew Colangelo told the jury inside a packed and heavily-guarded courtroom.
Change "conspiracy" to "campaign" and that's what every politician does, isn't it? The higher the office involved, the more planned, coordinated, and long-running it is. Some people, in fact, never stop campaigning. Or conspiring. (Not naming names here.)
And speaking of names, it's not really a hush money trial, is it? It's a bookkeeping trial. Thirty-four felony counts of not calling hush money "hush money."
Clearly, he wasn't trying to sell newspapers. As all the newspapers are.
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