Tonight on The Readout, so do you think that because of your investigation that is what's

moved this needle with the media?

Absolutely, absolutely.

There's no question.

You look at the polling and right now Donald Trump is seven points ahead of Joe Biden

and trending up where Joe Biden is trending down.

Another Republican says the quiet part out loud, brazenly admitting that his party's

anti-Biden crusade is nothing more than a time wasting political stunt to help Trump.

Congressman Jamie Raskin joins me to respond.

Plus, Ron DeSantis' problematic history with, well, history as governor, high school teacher

and author.

Wait until you see some of the things he wrote in a little notice 2011 book on the founding

fathers and president Obama.

And later, a San Francisco journalist goes undercover to give us a rare behind-the-scenes look

inside the Republican Party's anti-trans agenda.

But we begin tonight with the return of the twice impeached, criminally indicted former

president in a New York criminal courtroom today.

It was Donald Trump's first appearance in this case, though he did so virtually from Florida.

Since he pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records last month in

the Hush Money case involving adult film actress Stormy Daniels.

Judge Juan Martian brought Trump in with the sole purpose of trying to explain to the man

who has a pen shot for attacking people who displease him, especially those he's caught

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