redwoods in california, can you pay for it. if you want to go to indonesia, you can pay for it. you shouldn t be relying on a connection to a megabillionaire. and the rv was a $300,000-plus gift wait for it from harlan crow. i think the reporting is important, it s a great complement to the work that propublica has done. what it makes clear is all of the justices are receives gifts, but no one in the expansiveness that justice thomas has. if you think about the period in which this study took place, justice thomas during that period drew a salary from the supreme court, and the total of the salary for all of those years was about $4 million, roughly equivalent to the amount of gifts that he took in as
this moral and political decision to make about that character. they say, who do i want to be? who do i want to grow up to be? do i want to be someone like a liz cheney, an adam kinzinger, or am i going to do what everybody else in this cult is doing? do i want to be like jd vance, do i want to say the things donald trump wants? i think you re seeing the way the party is going. but the fear of being excommunicated, the fear of no longer being part of that tribe is so of that tribe is so dominant and pervasive, i find it bizarre, because it s not that great to be part of that particular tribe these days, is it? also, rev, it s engaged in the greatest shift to an autocracy that the planet has seen. i accept that explanation for jd
t being christ-like figure, as reverend sharpton says, is easily debunked. if you go to the old or new testament, you can easily turn to the this sort of view of false idols and how people worship to them. and i think the way that if i were on the bench considering this, i would look at it in terms of donald trump fomenting within the populous as sort of anti-law enforcement sentiment. that the way that he is undermining not just saying, oh, i m not guilty. almost all defendants who go to trial will continue to say that. but to foment that and to foment the idea it should be taken out
to be held to account when you think about the sentencing factors for judge marshon. and i really do think if you think about anybody else in this situation, it would be treated incredibly harshly. finally, he has had every privilege and it must be galling to people watching this show to think about all of the people who are disadvantaged, who are dealt with in the criminal justice system, very harshly, who don t have who aren t raised with a silver spoon in their mouth, who have to overcome adversity and not that that s an excuse but it is at least an explanation for where they are and donald trump doesn t have any of that. he s had every reason to be law abiding and not commit these crimes and not to be denigrating
for the defendant because it s such a sign of disrespect and of recidivism. but it this is one where i don t know if you re defense counsel, which is better or worse, in this case, having your client speak is fraught and having him not speak is fraught. it will be interesting to learn what he decides to do in connection with that process with the probation department. we ll all be watching. david kelley, thank you for starting us off. the rest stick around. the next up for us, where the republican party seems to be heading this election year with a brand-new stop the steal, as some on the right are just now beginning to face accountability for their efforts their criminal efforts to overturn the last election. we ll bring you that story next. . this is a hot flash.