Exhausting

 You would exhaust yourself pretty quickly if you tried to engage every bullshit argument the GOP advanced on pretty much any subject. Some - guns, maybe - are so important you have to, but their political arguments are usually tendentious crap that you should just ignore.

However, I will take a moment to point out that "Only Banana Republics indict their political enemies" is really ridiculous. The Times runs down active political figures who ran for office under indictment. Eugene V. Debs ran for president from a prison cell. As I mentioned yesterday, many countries have indicted former heads of government and heads of state, including France, Britain, Italy and South Korea. 

What the GOP is actually arguing is that if you're a former president - or at least a Republican former president - then you should be exempt from the laws of the United States. Or that if you announce that you are running for President, you should be exempt from prosecution during the campaign. Basically, they are taking Trump's "I could shoot someone in the face in Fifth Avenue and not lose support" line and turning it into a constitutional principle.

They will engage in the usual handwaving about Hunter Biden's laptop...whatever. There is also some dimwitted AG in Idaho or West Virginia who is preparing to indict Biden for not enforcing the southern border. Now, there is a very good reason why the Courts have historically prevented the latter type of case. The presidency would be tied down in endless prosecutions that would render the office powerless. I'm not sure I would want this iteration of the Supreme Court to defend Biden from frivolous prosecution, however.

Tuesday will be interesting - not because of the media circus Trump will create - because we will finally see the sealed indictment. It will be interesting to see what Bragg has. 

It will also be hilarious if Trump has every GOP politician go to the mattresses and then he cuts a plea deal.