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"It shouldn't be up to just Jack Smith to save us and the judicial system from this wretched judge."

It shouldn't be up to just Jack Smith to save us and the constitutional system from this wretched GOP. It's up to our fellow Americans - on juries and in the election. And it's a great leap of faith. The Founders had qualms about democracy. But as the Wyoming case demonstrates, - as do Charles Koch, Leonard Leo, Mitch McConnell, and Trump himself - government cannot be better trusted to White men of property than to anyone else.

What made Daniel's testimony compelling are the details. She expected to meet Trump as entertainment business people. When he opened the door in pajamas, she got him to go get dressed. They talked business. When he got out of line, she threatened to discipline him. He handed her a rolled magazine and dared her - she smacked his butt and he behaved. (Until she came out of the bathroom and saw him posed on a bed in his undies. And she went into a dissociative state, as who wouldn't.) My take away - whoever moderates the presidential debates should have a rolled magazine prominently in sight.

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Lin -- Better yet, Stormy and Jean Carrol should have front row seats, the way trompy had a couple former paramour of Bill Clinton at one of the debates trompy had with Hillary. Rolled-up magazines would be good props if allowed.

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Perfect, Doug Gagne. Too many have forgotten that moment.

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And all the other women who have come forward to assert they'd been abused by him - all those women who, as teens, had participated in one of his so-called "pageants", really just an excuse for his voyeurism. And Marla and Melania.

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Doug, also brilliant

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HaHaHa! Still laughing! Great comment.

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Here it is the day after (June 28th), and "that" surely did not happen. In fact we were forewarned that fact-checking woud be impossible with the time constraints. Even though Joe Biden knew the facts, he was placed in an untenable position to defend the onslaught of unrelenting Trumpian lying.

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