Welcome to the latest episode of the Trump Trials. I am Charlie Sykes. Look, let's just start with this day in history.

I wrote about this in my morning shots newsletter.

You know, this should be something to bookmark for historians of the future and maybe psychologists of the future as well on October 24th

2003 the former president of the United States Donald J Trump who is facing

91 felony indictments spent the entire day in court listening to testimony from his

former personal lawyer about all of his systemic systematic financial frauds.

In the morning, he also learned that one of his other former lawyers,

Jenna Ellis, had cut a plea deal in the racketeering case against him.

And in the afternoon, sometime in the afternoon sometime in the

afternoon he found out that his former chief of staff Mark Meadows may have been

given immunity to testify before a federal grand jury about Trump's attempts to overturn the 2020 election.

So on Earth 2.0, this would have been a particularly bad day for Donald Trump. But in the actual world we live in, Donald

Trump had a fabulous day because with one tweet, one bleat, he re-established his position as the apex predator of the Republican Party

he shived the speaker

look I mean that there are slices of avocado that lasted longer in the sun than Tom Emmer's speaker candidacy

So Donald Trump put out one statement saying he was a globalist rhino and that was it it was done now why did this happen

Tom Emmer's

Cardinal's sin the Unforgivable sin was that he voted to certify Joe Biden's election.

He voted to recognize the reality of the 2020 election and that was completely

disqualifying.

So I do think that we need to put this in perspective what's

going on right now and when we're taping this we don't know what the

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