There is a solemn obligation that these jurors and prospective jurors are being asked to perform.

And this includes, importantly, people who disdain the idea of Donald Trump returning to political power. But the criminal trial is not a proxy for an election.

It is not a substitute for the will of the American people. A criminal trial is exactly that,

a criminal trial. This is a moment where Donald Trump's fiercest critics must be his most

vociferous defenders for a fair trial because the system that he attacked cannot be denigrated.

It is Monday, April 15th, 2024.

This is the warning.

There are 204 days remaining until the American people will decide who is in command.

During the most dangerous hours, the world has seen perhaps since the Cuban

missile crisis, or perhaps 1973 in the Middle East.

What happened this past weekend was unprecedented.

Iran made a declaration that it's prepared to wage war against Israel and the United States

in the clear light of day. The war that has gone on between Israel and Iran has escaped from

the shadows. And now a great question hangs over the Israeli War Cabinet, the situation room in the White House, all of the world capitals of all of the democratic powers.

There is a coalition of chaos and menace that is merging, coming together, that is prodding,

poking, testing, the resolve of the free world.

80 years on from the day that will soon be recognized and honored, the invasion of Europe, D-Day, June 6th, 1944.

This access of Iran, of North Korea, of Russia,

and China is menacing.

It's probing. It's probing, crowding in the Philippines, in Taiwan.

Russia is fueling instability all over the world, while every night its missiles and drones assault the sovereignty and the peace of Ukraine. Vladimir Putin and his propagandists promised the use of nuclear weapons on a weekly

basis. Vladimir Putin has made a declaration that wherever Russia is spoken is Russia,

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