Farron Balanced Daily: Judge Slaps Down Trump's Attempted "Fishing Expedition" To Discredit Prosecutors

Judge Juan Merchan had to lay into Donald Trump's legal team on Friday morning after they tried to subpoena records from the Manhattan district attorney's office long after discovery ended. Trump's lawyers were seeking records related to former prosecutor Mark Pomerantz who publicly resigned from the DA's office after Alvin Bragg shut down an investigation into Trump. But Merchan refused the subpoena because it is prohibited by New York law to receive the records, something Trump's lawyers should have known.

Also, Republicans in the Senate have spent the last few weeks laughing in Ted Cruz's face and mocking him in person because he finally got, as one Senator put it, a taste of his own medicine. Cruz was put in a position where he had to whip up votes for a bill to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration's funding, and usually he's the guy holding up legislation like this. So instead of cooperating with him, Republicans mocked him by proposing amendments that didn't fit and laughing as he realizes how annoying he has been all these years by doing the same thing. 

And  like an even more sinister version of Dr. Evil from the Austin Powers movies, Donald Trump recently promised oil executives that he would kill environmental regulations - and get rid of electric vehicles - if they give him ONE BILLION DOLLARS. This is how politics works these days, but few politicians are bold enough to actually say it out loud like Trump did. But this could also be viewed as a form of either bribery or extortion, depending on how you look at it.

Finally, during a reality-bending segment on Newsmax late last week, RNC co-chair Lara Trump claimed that Donald Trump "obviously" accepts the results of elections. This flies in the face of everything that Trump has said about the 2020 election, as well as all the efforts of the RNC that Lara is running to challenge voting laws and get rid of voting by mail. All that is being done because of Donald's lies about the 2020 election, and it is outright insulting for Lara to pretend that none of that has happened.

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