Hi, everyone. Happy Friday. It's now 4 o'clock in the east. In the words of his former

confidant and advisor, Chris Christie, quote, he, Donald Trump, goes to bed every night,

thinking about the sound of the jail cell door closing behind him. It is a primal fear

of the ex-presidents that one day his blatant and willful and repeated disregard of the law

will land him behind bars. Two developments in the last 24 hours should be processed and

understood with that fact in mind. The first, his sudden decision to cancel a planned

press conference in which he had claimed he would finally unveil evidence of massive

voter fraud. But of course, would come nearly three years after Trump and his allies came

up empty in every forum, courtroom, legislature, everywhere. Trump had promised a, quote,

inclusive report, and that he would once and for all be proven right. On that, the

New York Times says this, quote, the reporting question, according to people familiar with

the matter, is a document of more than 100 pages. It was compiled at least in part by Liz

Harrington. She's a Trump communications aide who was often described as among the

true believers in his false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him through

widespread fraud. But at least on this one issue, Trump appears to have listened to the

advice of his lawyers. Maybe seniors reported this yesterday, quote, Trump's legal advisors

have told him that holding such a press conference with dubious claims of vote fraud will only

complicate his legal problems and some of his attorneys have advised him to cancel it.

Which brings us to the second development, this one from Trump's attorneys, an audacious

request filed in court last night to push back Trump's trial in the federal case regarding

his efforts to overturn the 2020 election to April of the year, 2026. Yeah, that's

far than five years after the deadly insurrection at the US Capitol. It's more than three and a half

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