The media desperately wants Trump on Trial to be as big a ratings hit as O.J. was, but the dynamics are different. O.J. had a dream team of lawyers, so he kept his mouth shut and tried to look amiable. Trump’s lawyers are not the stuff of dreams, and their client is constitutionally incapable of shutting up, so before the trial itself resumes, there will be a hearing on whether he violated his gag order yet again. Gonna need something stronger than popcorn to keep the public tuned in.
At least Trump got Letitia James off his back by agreeing to a bunch of stipulations she made about his sketchy $175 bond, so it now has been accepted. It’s like the Perils of Pauline – he looks trapped but wriggles in the next episode every time. Tune in to see how!
One sign the public isn’t engaged: the paucity of pro-Trump protesters outside the courthouse. It’s clearly troubling Sleepy Don, who isn’t getting the media circus he wanted, so he put out a call for extras. Maybe if he hired actors to play his adoring crowd, as he did when he descended that escalator…
The ship that took out Baltimore’s Key Bridge was having electrical malfunctions in port, and the city filed a legal liability claim against its owners, who earlier petitioned federal court asking for a $43.6 million limit on potential liability payouts, a fraction of what it will cost to replace the bridge.
Since November NASA’s Voyager I space probe, currently more than 15 billion miles from Earth, has been unable to transmit data back to the planet. But engineers figured out a workaround and the probe is again transmitting data. It’s so far away that each radio signal takes more than 22 hours to arrive.
The floor’s yours.