Today is Wednesday, March 27, 2024. A late breaking news story that could have far-reaching consequences for those who aided and abetted the former president in challenging the 2020 election comes out of California where an attorney discipline judge there has recommended that ex-Dump election attorney John Eastman be disbarred, according to an opinion released today. This development is covered in an online CNN article by Katelyn Polantz and Hannah Rabinowitz entitled “Judge recommends ex-Trump election lawyer John Eastman be disbarred.”

Judge Yvette Roland’s opinion comes after a lengthy trial about Eastman’s actions as he led some of the efforts for Donald Duck to challenge his 2020 election loss. The opinion serves as a recommendation to the California Supreme Court, which will ultimately decide whether to endorse or reject the punishment. I trust that the California Supreme Court will do the right thing and endorse this fair punishment for what this unprincipled and unethical lawyer tried to do in order to keep Dump in power.

Unfortunately, Eastman will have the opportunity to appeal Roland’s ruling. Here our legal system affords defendants the right to appeal a judge’s decision, but Eastman and his henchmen were going to deprive American voters of their right to elect their own president.

Still, the judge’s opinion marks a major step in the consequences for lawyers who peddled false theories of election fraud on Dump’s behalf.

Not realizing this is not a Christian nation, the former ex-president is now hawking Bibles with his name embossed on it or something like that. This is so outrageous that you can’t wrap your head around it. Wasn’t it enough this con man hawked golden sneakers just a few months ago which caused pundits to snicker over the crassness of it? But now! The most sacrilegious man on the planet is peddling $59.99 Bibles to misguided souls out there who he thinks would gobble them up like hot cakes. An opinion by Max Burns for The Hill provides a lacerating analysis of how low this grifter has descended and is entitled “Opinion: Trump’s crumbling empire gives Biden a golden opportunity.”

The opinion drolly starts with this line: “Here’s a phrase I never thought I’d say: Donald Trump, Bible salesman.”

Burns then writes that “the embattled former president is now trying to pay off his legal judgments by hawking $60 ‘God Bless the U.S.A.’ Bibles cobranded with country music singer Lee Greenwood. “(Remind me not to listen to Greenwood ever again!) ABC News reports that the books are yet another Trumpf licensing agreement, meaning a portion of each sale lands right in the Donald’s greedy pocket.

Burns writes about this latest ridiculous scheme on Dump’s part: “The Bible scheme is just the latest Trump ploy to separate the MAGA faithful from their cash, and it won’t be the last. Trump is clearly ready to put his candidacy on hold while he scrounges up nearly $500 million to cover his legal debts.”

This should worry Republicans up and down the ballot this year, because new polling shows voters are already taking notice of Chump’s divided attention. How could they not? All of this is being reported daily by the news media.

While Dump was off the campaign trail fighting to stop the New York attorney general from repossessing his fraudulent businesses, President Joe Biden flooded the zone with effective campaign communications. As a result, Biden gained ground in six key states, according to the latest Bloomberg/Morning Consult poll.

Biden eased Drumpf’s lead in Pennsylvania and Michigan, and even managed to retake the lead in Wisconsin after trailing Dump there for over a month. A Susquehanna poll released Monday found Biden faring even better in Pennsylvania, not just typing up the race but leaping ahead of Chump by 5 points.

Biden and Democrats are also prepped to capitalize on Dump’s inertia. In an unusually aggressive campaign statement, the Biden campaign ridiculed Trump’s Monday postcourt press conference. “Donald Trump is weak and desperate, both as a man and a candidate for president,” the campaign posted on X. The overweight Bible salesman spent the weekend golfing [like he did during his own disastrous term in office], the morning comparing himself to Jesus [boy, is he deranged!], and the afternoon lying about having money he definitely doesn’t have.”

Burns reminds us that Trump’s $175 million civil fraud bond isn’t going away, no matter how many times he calls it a “witch hunt” or unconstitutional, and Trumpf doesn’t have $500 million in cash, no matter how loudly he insists that he does.

It isn’t just financial worries that have kept Chump off the campaign trail – he’s also spending an inordinate amount of time in courtrooms. That’s about to get worse, after a New York judge ordered Chump’s hush money trial to begin on April 15. “Trump will soon be dividing his time between selling Bibles and explaining to a jury why he paid a porn star to hide their affair.” This couldn’t get any more ironic than that.

The strain of fighting multiple civil (and soon criminal) lawsuits is already visibly wearing Teflon Don down. His increasingly rare rallies are punctuated with mispronounced words and confused names and dates. “Trump’s tendency to wander into incoherence is now so noticeable that one medical expert at Cornell University warned Trump displayed possible signs of early dementia.” Red-state voters expecting the firebrand from 2016 will be sorely disappointed, Burns notes.

In conclusion, Burns posits that if Biden wants to capitalize on his opponent’s troubles, he would ultimately help his cause by doubling down on campaigning, while Drumpf remains tied up in court. “Biden will need to fill every moment of Trump’s silence.” And I trust that he will.

Finally, some good news about the rematch between Biden and Drumpf. Even though there are about nine months left until the election. It could only get worse for the Orange Jesus, in my opinion.

Today marked Elliot’s colonoscopy which went quite well, thank God. We woke up at 5 for Elliot to finish preparing himself for the procedure. We then went back to bed to finally wake up at 9 to make Elliot’s 10:30 appointment with the gastroenterologist. I went with him to the doctor’s office where the procedure was being performed, right on 72nd Avenue. I took two books with me to read, The Swans of Fifth Avenue by Melanie Benjamin and Bernard Malamud’s The Tenants, written in 1971. The office had Fox’s weather channel on all throughout Elliot’s procedure. Instead of taking him on time, he was called around 10:55 and was gone for about 40 minutes or so. I began wading through the first book which details more of Truman Capote’s relationship with his rich society swans. In this book, there are more swans described by the writer than are featured in the recent Feud series that concentrated on primarily Barbara “Babe” Cushing Paley, C.Z. Guest, Nancy “Slim” Gross, and Lee Radziwill. There was perfunctory discussion of Ann Woodward in the series, as portrayed by Demi Moore.

At around 11:40 or so, I could easily discern Elliot talking to a practitioner in the hallway as he walked back to the waiting area. He wasn’t even escorted back to the waiting room which other patients were seen being helped by medical personnel. He was walking on his own. Now we could gather ourselves to leave the office for Elliot to rest at home, which is what he did, while I drove to my comic bookstore, on Metropolitan Avenue. Now Elliot could have a hearty breakfast since he couldn’t the day before. He was mostly on a liquid diet on Tuesday. Ugh!

Stay safe and be well.

Doesn’t Atticus look like a statue here? What is he looking at here?