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Trump's Town Hall Reminded Us Of The Stakes of The Election. AND I AM GLAD: Saturday's GNR [1]
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Date: 2023-05-13
As Biden tweeted after the performance: “It’s simple, folks. Do you want four more years of that?”
Democrats Are Doing Great Things
The White House may finally get airlines to pay you for hellish delays
The White House is out with a new effort aimed at tackling some of travelers’ peskiest recurring concerns: flight delays and cancellations. It’s the latest in a larger Biden administration effort to focus on pro-consumer policies ahead of the 2024 election. Under a new rule, the Department of Transportation will consider, the federal government could require airlines to offer cash payments for long delays and mandate they provide more compensation for cancellations. Currently, no major airlines provide cash payments for passengers experiencing a controllable delay that pushes their trip more than three hours, according to the administration. That’s partly because they’re not required to by law.
Inflation eased again in April
Inflation has eased to the lowest level in two years. Prices rose 4.9 percent in April compared with the year before, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday morning, and 0.4 percent compared with March. There’s been significant progress on inflation from last summer, when the consumer price index hit 9.1 percent on a year-over-year basis.
White House Goes on Offense Against GOP’s Biden Attack Dog
After months of watching House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) attack President Joe Biden for pretty much every outrage worthy of a Fox News segment, the White House isn’t holding back. In advance of a press conference focused on the Biden family’s “business schemes” that Comer is holding Wednesday morning, White House spokesman Ian Sams issued a lengthy and exclusive comment to The Daily Beast questioning Comer’s own credibility.
For the first time in decades, Democrats are making gains in areas that have some of Trump’s most reliable voters.
In last year’s midterms, when Democrats narrowly held on to control of the Senate and won crucial elections in battleground states, they did so in part by reversing one of Donald Trump’s biggest 2020 accomplishments: They won more voters from rural and exurban communities than anyone expected. From Arizona and Nevada, across the Midwest, and into North Carolina and Pennsylvania, Democratic Senate and gubernatorial candidates improved on President Joe Biden’s 2020 showing among this swath of the electorate, and persuaded tens of thousands of rural voters who voted for Trump to switch parties. What we need to do is, show up, listen, assume we share the same values, and demonstrate that we’re fighting for them,” Bullock said. “You’re not always going to win all these areas, but if you don’t show up, both in-person and on the airwaves, there’s gonna be a vacuum there.”
Biden announces two historic nominations to Fed board
President Biden on Friday announced two key nominations to the Federal Reserve Board, naming the first Latina governor and second Black vice chair at the central bank. The White House would elevate Philip Jefferson, who became a Fed governor last year, to the No. 2 role. Biden also nominated Adriana D. Kugler, now the U.S. executive director of the World Bank, to a seat as governor. Those moves would fill the Fed’s remaining vacancy after former vice chair Lael Brainard moved to the White House. And the decisions would further Democrats’ attempts to make the 109-year-old central bank more reflective of the country it serves.
We Got Some Justice This Week
E. Jean Carroll’s Lawyers Leveled a Knockout Blow on Trump
In an unprecedented verdict, former President Donald Trump was held liable for sexual assault and defamation of the writer E. Jean Carroll. The jury awarded Carroll a total of $5 million. The jury did return one verdict in Trump’s favor, finding that he was not liable for “rape.” All in all, this was a big win for Carroll and a big loss for Trump.
At last, a measure of justice for Donald Trump
A federal jury has determined that Donald Trump is a sexual predator. How gratifying it is to type those words, after all these years and all those stories about Trump’s treatment of women. Trump still has criminal indictments to go — one pending, others anticipated — before his legal travails are over. Yet the civil verdict in E. Jean Carroll v. Donald Trump imposes — finally — some consequences on a man who has been a Houdini of accountability. Anyone paying attention knew who this man was and what he had done. Now the legal system has ratified that assessment.
The E. Jean Carroll suit brought an astonishing moment of accountability
Tuesday brought a stark moment of accountability for Donald Trump. The standard in an election is altogether different, though the results of Tuesday’s decision have given voters compelling new evidence to take into account.
Sexual abuse verdict renews Republican doubts about Trump’s electability
A New York jury’s finding on Tuesday that Donald Trump was liable for sexually abusing the writer E. Jean Carroll in the 1990s and then defaming her is rekindling debate within the Republican Party about the former president’s electability as he consolidates an early polling lead for the 2024 nomination.
E. Jean Carroll Is a Badass
On Tuesday, a New York jury did the improbable: it sided with a woman over the much more powerful man she’d accused of sexual assault. Writer E. Jean Carroll was awarded $5 million by the jury—$2 million for sexual abuse and $3 million for defamation at the hands of former president Donald Trump. During the trial, Carroll was everything Trump lies about being, and then some. She was bold, ballsy, brave, tough, and—most important to the jury—told the truth. Like so many other women, Carroll was on the receiving end of sexual misconduct followed by defamatory statements from the former president. But unlike the others, Carroll had the time and resources to see her case through to its end. She didn’t back down when Trump, as president, attempted to enlist the U.S. Justice Department in his defense. She didn’t back down when his toadies attacked her from every grimy pulpit they had.
And this asshole…
Rep. George Santos pleads not guilty to 13 counts of financial crimes
Rep. George Santos, the freshman Republican congressman whose myriad falsehoods became both a scandal and a national punchline, was charged with a host of financial crimes in court papers unsealed Wednesday, including defrauding his donors, using their money for his personal benefit and wrongfully claiming unemployment benefits. Santos, 34, surrendered to federal authorities in the morning at the Alfonse M. D’Amato Federal Courthouse in this hamlet on Long Island. The freshman congressman, who announced his reelection bid last month, was arraigned before a magistrate judge, told to relinquish his passports and ordered released on $500,000 bond.
How George Santos’s federal indictment could shake up Congress
In the short term, Santos’s indictment won’t change a thing. Traditionally, members of Congress give up committee assignments after being criminally charged. However, Santos already gave up his committee positions in January after a meeting with Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).
However, McCarthy made clear that a criminal conviction would mark the end of his patience for Santos. Citing the 2022 case of former Nebraska Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, McCarthy said “he was found guilty and then I told him he needed to resign.” There is ample precedent for members being expelled if they don’t resign after a criminal conviction. Most recently, Democrat James Traficant of Ohio was expelled from Congress when he refused to resign after being convicted for taking bribes and racketeering in 2002.
A resignation by Santos would present new political peril for McCarthy. Republicans have a narrow five-seat majority in the House before a potential Santos resignation. McCarthy was only able to have his debt limit proposal pass by one vote in April when Santos voted at the last minute to support it. Losing Santos’s vote would be a loss in and of itself, but it would be magnified by the likelihood that Democrats would take the seat in a special election triggered if Santos resigns. Even if Santos were scandal-free, the district, which Joe Biden won by 10 points in 2020, would have been a top Democratic target. With the stain of Santos’s scandals, Democrats would be heavily favored in any special election.
On The Lighter Side
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