Today is Flag Day. Today is also the Trumpster’s 77th birthday. He had a big birthday eve in court, where he was arraigned on 37 criminal counts related to retaining classified documents after he left the presidency. A summary of the afternoon’s events:
- Trump pleaded not guilty to all charges, of course.
- He was booked and fingerprinted but did not have his photo taken. The judge decided that there enough photos of Trump out there that people will have no trouble identifying what he looks like.
- Trump didn’t speak; his lawyers did all the talking.
- There will be no gag order.
- Trump will keep his passport and is free to travel, even internationally.
- Trump can continue to talk to people who work for him who might be witnesses – but he can’t talk about the case.
- A legal analyst talked to POLITICO Playbook and estimated Trump’s sentence at 10-12 years if convicted.
- But… if convicted, Trump’s lawyers plan to appeal, possibly all the way to the Supreme Court.
Would Donald Trump live all the way through an extended appeals process? Quite possibly. His father, Fred Trump, lived to be 93.
Today is also National Bourbon Day.
Today at Dos Hermanos Kitchen in the Cossitt Library:
The Pulpit Is Not a Playground – The Stage Play comes to the Cannon Center this Saturday.
Bishop, the French restaurant inside Central Station Hotel, is hiring a pastry cook.
That’s all for today. Back tomorrow, hopefully.