The Good evening. It's Tuesday, August 8th. Welcome to a new episode of System Update.

Our live nightly show that airs every Monday through Friday at 7 p.m. Eastern exclusively here on

Rumbull the free speech alternative to YouTube. Tonight the fact that many of us

are immersed in the daily news cycle can mean on the one hand that we're more informed but on the other

this intense immersion sometimes results in extraordinary situations

becoming rapidly normalized. In the digital era a new cycle of three weeks can feel like it's a full year, which means

that our ability to take a step back and contemplatively evaluate events with in-depth

analysis can be easily compromised. To invoke a horrid cliche, one that applies here though,

the speed of the flow of information and the intensity of the 24-7 news cycle can easily cause us to focus on

individual trees at the expense of seeing the entire forest.

Such is the case with the fact that there are now three separate criminal indictments and

likely more to come, brought against former president and current front runner for the

2024 presidential election Donald Trump. Two of those are federal indictments, which means they have been filed by an agency,

the U.S. Department of Justice, that works under the authority and power of the sitting American President

Joe Biden, who only narrowly

defeated Trump in the certified Electoral College results of 2020, despite a

wide array of obstacles that could not have been any more unfavorable to an incumbent

president. Starting with the COVID

pandemic and all the resulting economic harm that had fostered.

Trump is, no matter how you cut it, a direct political threat to the ability of

Joe Biden to remain in political power.

The fact that Trump is now being prosecuted by the administration of Joe Biden, and not for classic

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