Tonight on The Readout.

I was so offended the minute I read page one of Trump's filing when they were asking

for that absurd trial date of April 2026 because on page one, they cite Powell versus Alabama.

The Powell case involved nine African-American teenagers, ages 12 to 19, who were accused

of sexually assaulting a white woman.

They were arrested, arraigned, and forced to go to trial in less than two weeks without

qualified counsel in a death penalty case.

Glenn Kersner last night on this show pointing out the absurdity of the idea that Donald Trump

is just like a persecuted black teenager in the 1930s as the right pushes a laughably

racist narrative that being an accused felon gives Trump street cred with the blacks.

Also tonight Tennessee State Representative Justin Jones is again silenced by Republican

House leaders for passionately fighting for gun reform after a mass murder at a Nashville

school.

Representative Jones joins me tonight.

But we begin tonight with a weird trend that we've noticed coming out of mega-Republican

world.

This is a party after all whose base is overwhelmingly the same demographic that gets its news

from Fox.

So let's just say not super diverse.

But since Trump came along in 2016, they keep insisting that because of him, Republican

ism is booming among black people, despite there being no evidence of that.

And as Donald Trump's troubles have gotten more intense, Republicans are leaning into a

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