Yesterday, there were two notable stories about Trump World. The first got a fair amount of attention. It was big article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution interviewing members of the Special Grand Jury. Not only does it turn out that there were three phone calls Trump made to state officials there, but one was to the Republican Speaker of the legislature asking him to call a special session and overturn the election. The Speaker shut him down.
But awful as that is (not just what Trump said, but also finding out that three calls were recorded) that's not the bad news, since it already adds on to the terrible news about the first phone call committing election fraud that we already knew. The bad news is that one of the jurors said (and I'm paraphrasing, but I'm close) that “When the full story comes out, and it will, it’s going to be massive. Massive.” Given what we actually know, which is terrible and criminal, the concept of the full story being "massive" does send the imagination to new heights. Or lows, depending on your perspective of such things. The second story concerns Trump’s Truth Social, which hasn't yet gotten all that much coverage. Because Digital World is currently under investigation by the SEC, its proposed merger with Truth Social is being examined. It seems Truth Social may possibly have been kept solvent by two payments of $8 million of laundered Russian money connected to Putin. It's not certain if all these connection are valid, but enough appears so on the surface which is why they are being looked into. What is certain is why Trump went on a massive ALL CAPS RANT last week about how wrong it was to have investigations. In fairness, if I committed what appears to be as many crimes as Trump has, and on such a huge scale, I would be against investigations, too. By the way, it's worth noting that the first of these two payments from Russia came before the National Archives had court-approved agents go to Mar-a-Lago to retrieve classified material. If one wants to read a more-detailed article, you can check it out here. Sometimes, stories don't need a lot of commentary to add context. The stories themselves are able to speak loudly and clearly on their own.
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