Random Monday Morning Thoughts

A state prosecution would end in a hung jury. A subsequent federal prosecution resulted in a 20 year sentence. 

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• A weekend timeline regarding the Trump Tariffs and his self-inflicted gunshot wound to the economy.  
• On Friday, the stock market crashed, and Trump headed off to the golf course. The Wall Street Journal summarized it: 
  
  
  
• His henchmen, meanwhile, tried to do damage control. Stephen Miller makes Joseph Goebbels seem charming as he lies with anger.
  
  
  
• The White House provided a statement on Saturday: Was the news going to be that Trump was backing down on tariffs? Nope. We were told that Trump had advanced to the club championship for Sunday. Very Kim Jong Un.
  
  
  
• On the Sunday morning talk shows, Trump administration officials floundered in  trying to justify why the tariffs were being imposed in the first place.  Get your little screwdrivers ready:
  
  
  
• Yesterday on Air Force One, after four days of golfing and with the Monday morning stock market futures plummeting, Trump got to the important stuff. 
  
  
  
• Then he fired off this tweet to indicate that he's not backing down on the tariffs as he threw in a few lies. 
  
  
  
  
• Watch this development: A federal judge has ordered the Trump Administration to return by midnight tonight the man who was wrongly sent to the El Salvador prison.  The White House responded Friday night with a shocking retort:
  
  
  
• And on Saturday: 
  

  

  
  
  
  
• Protests occurred across the nation on Saturday. (And I found my favorite sign.)
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Never mind that Congress passed a law banning it which was then upheld by the Supreme Court. But what do laws mean these days, right? 
  
  
  
• Measles update.
  
   
  
  
  
• Man, that's one big root system. 
  
  
  
• Remember that big pile up in Austin where the truck driver was arrested for DWI?. The toxicology report came back and found no alcohol and no drugs.  The police have said the are "aware of the report" and  they are working with the DA to figure out the "appropriate charges."
  

  

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• The Business Second™.
  
  
  
• Texas Tech spring football practice on Friday afternoon: 
  
  
  
• Stock market opens right now with the Dow down 1,125.