Hi, everyone.

Happy Thursday.

It's 4 o'clock in a rainy New York, whereas President Barack Obama spoke frequently about how the arc of the moral universe would ultimately bend toward justice.

And for his part, President Ronald Reagan,

who spoke of an America as a shining city on the hill, often said this, quote, freedom is never

more than one generation away from extinction. Donald J. Trump has taken to claiming on a near daily

basis that a cadre of career public servants

who worked toward justice and protected the rule of law under Democratic and Republican presidents

and administrations should be jailed. Trump lashing out repeatedly at special counsel Jack Smith

while traveling abroad, as well as other Department of Justice and FBI officials and

leaders of watchdog groups. In unhinged social media rants, some of them posted very late at night

slash very early in the morning, with a tone barely worthy of a Facebook comment section,

much less pronouncements of policy from a president of the United

States. In one rant posted on Wednesday, Donald Trump targeted our colleague and MSNBC legal

analyst Andrew Weissman, as well as fired FBI agent Walter Giardina. Gerdina was pushed out of the FBI

while he was caring for his dying wife.

It's a move of his supervisors called, quote, inexcusably cool in a lawsuit they have brought against the Trump administration after they two were fired by Cash Patel.

The agent, Giordina, was fired because he had been the agent who arrested Trump ally and advisor Peter Navarro.

That happened when Navarro was indicted on contempt of Congress charges for blowing off a subpoena

from the January 6th Select Committee. Republican Senator Chuck Grassley also alleged, among other things,

that Giordina had destroyed records on a laptop when assigned to the Mueller

investigation. It's the charge that Giordina denies. In fact, he says he was never issued a laptop

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