Author: Bok

Chip Shot The would-be assassin set up shop 450 ft from the stage. The NYT says that was “outside the security perimeter but well within rifle range of Mr. Trump.” Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle says she takes full responsibility but refuses to step down.

Zero Gravity Campaign In the 2013 science fiction thriller “Gravity” George Clooney’s character Matt Kowalski lets go of a rope and drifts off into outer space so that Sandra Bullock’s character Ryan Stone can have a fighting chance to live. On Wednesday in a NYT op-ed Clooney cut Joe Biden’s tether in desperation to give the Dems a fighting chance.

Gag Decision Well it happened. Alvin Bragg took time from his busy schedule of not prosecuting shoplifters and cop kickers to take down Donald Trump. The jury convicted him on all 34 counts of ,,,um, …um, well the judge never really did say what the underlying crime was. But he did hang a gag order on the leading candidate in the 2024 presidential election.

Biden Campaign Contribution The alleged crime in Trump’s hush money trial was 6 years past its expiration date. The only way Prosecutor Bragg could drag Trump into a New York courtroom was to tie the old crime to a new intended felony. Here’s how the WSJ editorial page put it: “Mr. Bragg’s main argument for the second crime is that because the Stormy payoff was primarily meant to influence the 2016 election, it was in effect an illegal donation to Mr. Trump’s campaign.” Or could Stormy’s two days of juicy testimony be considered a campaign contribution to Joe Biden?