What Trump will do to the United States is awful. 

But because he hates the US government so much, he'll also make "America First" wildly vulnerable to hostile forces, at a time when they're already poised to undercut America's strength.

By rolling out one after another wildly inappropriate nominee, Trump has brilliantly done what he always does: used a series of distractions to drown out any coherent discussion of the whole. To combat Trump's assault on America, we need to maintain focus on that whole.

Already, in Trump's first term, crony US Attorneys managed to claim evidence was the opposite of what reality said it was. But in a Matt Gaetz DOJ, a willingness to sustain Trump's myth would be the price of admission. Trump's myth cannot fail, it can only be failed.

In motions in limine in advance of the Alexander Smirnov trial, Leo Wise and Derek Hines made a superb case they're treating Alexander Smirnov differently than the gun shop owner who doctored the Hunter Biden gun purchase form after the fact.

Jack Smith's declination decisions, which by regulation he must include in any closing report, may prove to be of great interest.