the trump foundation for a 15-year tax fraud. now he has this one. that is a big deal. and i think we should recognize the skill, the talent, and the drive that undergirds everything that happened here. i am, however, also looking at the way trump allies, wanna be trump allies and the republican party writ large is reacting to this. i agree with you, joy. the specter of a republican front-runner being crowned the nominee four days after the sentencing, becoming a felon, is something we never thought he would see in americans history. the reality is the trump team, the rnc. republicans across the country think this is a gift to them. eric trump saying today, may 30th, 2024, might be remembered as the day donald j. trump was re-elected. and that is not to say that s necessarily what s going to happen, but it points to this incredible schism in american culture and politics where one, i think earth one, as rachel maddow likes to call it, understands what happened here as a tes