Just Ask The Question Newsletter 8.25.23
Just Ask The Question Newsletter 8.25.23
Donald Trump. Ninety-one felony charges. Four jurisdictions. What's next?
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Just Ask The Press - The mugshot. The booking. The legacy of lunacy.
The mugshot. The booking. The legacy of lunacy.
The celebration of 100 years of trying to pass the ERA.
The speedy trial - and we'll also unpack Trump's likely future behind bars, and remember fondly Bob Dylan's line: "To live outside the law, you must be honest."
Trump is a compromised candidate — and skipping debates won't save him from a reckoning
After Wednesday night it is apparent that Donald Trump is in danger of losing control of the GOP he largely built
At the end of the day, the Donald said it was all about him, and he wasn't wrong.
But he still isn't happy. The world will go on without Donald Trump.
The cast of eight also-rans engaged in the first Republican presidential debate in Milwaukee Wednesday night cast a slim, pale shadow across the stage compared to the no-show former President Donald Trump – even as they backed his vice president, Mike Pence, for honoring his oath of office and refusing to tip the election to Donald Trump. "He asked me to put him ahead of the Constitution," Pence said. And he wouldn't do it.
How do you "boo" that? Some did.
Still, Nikki Haley said the GOP cannot win with Trump as a candidate. "He's the most disliked politician in America," she said. That didn't stop most of the candidates who said they'd support Trump if he was the candidate.
It was all about the dark times in America. Ron DeSantis said only he can get it done. Vivek Ramaswamy said it wasn't "Morning in America" and we're in dark times. Of course, he wants to hand Ukraine over to Russia, and Haley ate him up for that. Pence just wanted to get a government as good as the people, while Doug Burgum wants us to embrace small-town America. They all sounded small town…
Ted Boutrous - Does Trump have a first amendment defense and is free speech threatened?
This week on Just Ask the Question: Free Speech is threatened by the government - but Donald Trump isn't the victim. Join us as we talk with First Amendment Attorney Ted Boutrous as we discuss the real problems facing the First Amendment.
Folks, the wait was worth it: Donald Trump is going to prison
Trump can't come back from this: He will never be president again, and may well die in prison. The future awaits
Finally. Donald Trump's depravities are laid bare for all to see in a court of law.
With the latest felony indictments handed down by a Fulton County, Georgia, grand jury, former president Donald John Trump is accused of leading the "Fulton 19" — a loose assemblage of accused criminals also known as "The Enterprise" who face charges of trying to rig the 2020 election in Georgia.
Specifically, the "Enterprise" is accused of forgery, conspiracy to commit forgery, conspiracy to commit false statements and writings, filing false documents, influencing witnesses, conspiracy to commit election fraud, conspiracy to defraud the state, impersonating a public officer and a host of other charges.
Buried deep in the 96-page indictment are some of the most disturbing accusations ever leveled at a president. Indeed they rival those levied against the New York mafia figures Rudy Giuliani once prosecuted while with the Department of Justice…
Tim Ritchie - Do we have the courage to greet reality as a friend?
On this episode of Just Ask the Question: The President of the Boston Museum of Science, Tim Ritchie, talks about AI, the scientific method and asks, "are we courageous enough to greet reality as a friend?" He also elaborates on his time as the head of a museum of Science in Alabama where science often is not greeted as a friend.
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