The first job of a president is to be the president for all Americans. To bring people together. Like Lincoln talked about in the Gettysburg address, to bind our wounds and heal us.

Donald Trump not only did not do that, but he went out of his way to tear us apart, to pit one American against another, and inflame people like the 17-year-old Trump-humper who killed two people in Kenosha.

And he did it all on our property. The White House belongs to the people, not to Donald Trump or the Republican party. He, and every government official who was in that audience, violated both a civil and a criminal law.

Last night, the White House was a crime scene. And it must be punished.

-Thom

Friday's Daily Stack

Quote: "We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream" -- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Article: "What Is The Hatch Act? Trump's Campaign Accused Of Breaking Federal Law" by Nicole Massabrook.

Article: "House Dems Ask Gov't Watchdog Agency To Probe RNC Programming For Ethics Law Violations" by Tierney Sneed.

Article: "Journalists condemn lack of social distancing at White House RNC climax, invoke death of Herman Cain" by Joseph A. Wulfsohn.

Article: "Read the transcript of President Trump's speech from the RNC".

Video: Former Ukrainian politician says it was a "well-known fact" Trump wanted dirt on Biden.

Article: "Trump Has Now Spent 334 Years Of Presidential Salary On Taxpayer Funded Golf Trips" by Sean ColarosSI.

Article: "Unpaid bills pile up in Trump rallies' wake" by Anita Kumar And Quint Forgey.

Article: "Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address" by Wikipedia.

Article: "2 shot dead, 1 injured in Kenosha: Police looking for man with long gun after third night of Jacob Blake protests" by N'dea Yancey-Bragg, Patrick Marley and Sarah Volpenhein.

Article: "President Obama Criticized For 'Latte Salute' While Stepping Off Marine One" by Ed Mazza.

Article: "Trump University" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump's children must undergo mandatory training to learn how to avoid defrauding charities" by Brad Reed.

Article: "Did Donald Trump Bribe An Attorney General To Protect Trump University?" by Tina Nguyen.

Article: "Pam Bondi 2020 RNC Speech Transcript" by Rev.

Video: Maddow corrects litany of falsehoods in marathon Trump RNC speech.

Article: "Trump Engaged in Suspect Tax Schemes as He Reaped Riches From His Father" by David Barstow, Susanne Craig And Russ Buettner.

Article: "Moscow Skyscraper Talks Continued Through 'the Day I Won,' Trump Is Said to Acknowledge" by Mark Mazzetti, Maggie Haberman and Michael S. Schmidt.

Article: "Stephen Colbert Refuses to Cover the RNC Night 3: 'Why Subject Ourselves to Their Lies?'" By Amanda Bell.

Article: "Reporters explain why the 2020 presidential election could be even 'crazier' and more 'chaotic' than the Bush-Gore Florida recount of 2000" by Alex Henderson.

Article: "Florida Still Using an Old Katherine Harris Trick to Purge Black Voters" by Greg Palast.

Article: "People for the American Way" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Norman Lear" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Kenosha Police Refuse to Comment on Cops Encouraging 'Militia', Justify Giving Alleged Shooter Bottle of Water" by Colin Kalmbacher.

Article: "Anti-fascists linked to zero murders in the US in 25 years" by Lois Beckett.

Article: "Right-wing extremists killed 38 people in U.S. in 2019, Anti-Defamation League finds" by Erin Donaghue.

Article: "Right-Wing Extremists Are a Very Real Threat to America" by Elle Meyers.

Article: "Alleged 'Boogaloo' extremist charged in killing of federal officer during George Floyd protest" by Andrew Blankstein and Ben Collins.

Tweet: "Found it" by Khanman (video of armed white guys who apparently were told by police that the police would herd the protesters to them).

Article: "Extremism expert explains why 'fascists and neo-Nazis' are infiltrating protests against police violence" by Bob Brigham.

Article: "Gun laws in Illinois" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Who is Kyle Rittenhouse? What We Know About the 17-Year-Old Arrested in Kenosha Shooting" by NBC5.

What Do Democrats Need To Do In Response?
- Ben Jealous, President - People For the American Way (PFAW) & PFAW Foundation / Visiting Scholar-Annenberg School @Penn / Former President-NAACP & former candidate for Gov of Maryland (Susie Turnbull was his running mate)

Article: "Kenosha shooting suspect attended Trump rally in January: report" by J. Edward Moreno.

Article: "'I Have A Dream': New march on Washington marks fraught anniversary of King's speech" by Reuters.

Article: "Martin Luther King's 'I Have A Dream': Full Text From Legendary Speech On Its Anniversary" by Suman Varandani.

Article: "Latinos Vote!" by PFAW.

Article: "'America Is Watching You, Wisconsin': Julián Castro Focuses on Wis. Latino Vote During Panel" by Jonathon Sadowski.

Article: "You May Have Heard Republicans Use The Term 'Democrat Party'" by Jeremy Hobson.

Video: 'Reject the anger and the hate of the Democrat Party': Trump.

Article: "Bush Pardons 6 in Iran Affair, Aborting a Weinberger Trial; Prosecutor Assails 'Cover-Up'" by David Johnston.

Article: "Understanding the Iran-Contra Affairs" by Brown University.

Article: "Bush and Cheney belong in jail: America must answer for its illegal war on terror" by Rebecca Gordon.

Article: "NY Attorney General Sues Trump Organization for Stonewalling Probe into Alleged Financial Fraud" by Zachary Evans.

Article: "Sturmabteilung" (Brownshirts).

Article: "Sturmabteilung" (SA, Storm Troopers, Brownshirts) by Shoah Resource Center.

Article: "Blackshirts" by Wikipedia.

Article: "ICE HSI St. Paul graduated its inaugural class of Citizens Academy students" by ICE.

Article: "4 Years Later, Only 3 New Miles of 'Wall' And Not A Single Peso From Mexico" by S.V. Date.

Article: "Fact Check: Trump gives incomplete border wall update, misstates Biden's immigration plan" by Quinn Owen.

Article: "Trump Administration Diverts $3.8 Billion In Pentagon Funding To Border Wall" by Brakkton Booker.

Article 2 Section 3: "... he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed..."

Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 2 section 1. "The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them." (domestic emoluments clause).

Article: "Full text: Melania Trump's speech to the RNC".

Article: "Melania Trump's controversial 'I really don't care' jacket was a jab at Ivanka: Report" by AOL.

Article: "Melania Trump renegotiated prenup while staying in NY after inauguration, new book says" by Geoff Herbert.

Article: "Ivanka Trump is in for a big surprise if she thinks she'll be president one day: columnist" (“designer of plastic handbags” copied from competitors) by Tom Boggioni.

Hour Two: Issues of the Day
- Congressman Ro Khanna (D-CA, 17th District)

Article: "WATCH: Trump's postmaster general agrees to put sorting machines back online for $1 billion" by Sarah K. Burris. "[Khanna] also demanded to know why Republicans demand the USPS to make a profit when the Department of Defense or the National Institute of Health aren't told to make a profit."

Article: "Hidden in the HEROES Act, A New Multiemployer Pension Plan Bailout" by Elizabeth Bauer.

Article: "Pension funds for nearly 1 million workers are on verge of collapse" by Brian Williams.

Article: "House Passes Bill To Aid Endangered Pension Funds" by Steve Wishnia.

Book: "The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late" by Thom Hartmann

Article: "Carbon tax" by Wikipedia.

Bill: "American Clean Energy and Security Act" by Wikipedia.

Article: "5 takeaways from the Postal Service hearing in the Senate" by Amber Phillips.

Video: WATCH: Postmaster General DeJoy Testifies In House Oversight Hearing.

Article: "As COVID deaths nationwide surpass 180k, Massachusetts reports 16 new deaths, 438 new cases" by Tanner Stening.

Article: "Sanders: Biden Can Become The Most Progressive President Since FDR" by Tim Hains.

Article: "Federal CDC drops 14-day self-quarantine guidance for travelers" by AP.

Article: "Redlining" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trickle-down economics" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Reaganomics" (voodoo economics) by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Productivity-Pay Gap" by EPI.

Article: "Opinion: Kayleigh McEnany's preexisting condition needs protection from President Trump" by Jon Healey.

Article: "Trump payroll plan would deplete Social Security by 2023: Administrator" by Niv Elis.

Article: "Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006" by Wikipedia.

Law: "18 U.S. Code § 1701. Obstruction of mails generally" "Whoever knowingly and willfully obstructs or retards the passage of the mail, or any carrier or conveyance carrying the mail, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.".

Article: "Nazi gun control argument" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump in crisis wants to recreate Nixon's law and order campaign. But 2020 is not 1968" by Todd Gitlin.

Article: "House Democrats call for Special Counsel probe into blatant lawbreaking by top Trump officials" by Jake Johnson.

Article: "GAO finds Chad Wolf, Ken Cuccinelli are ineligible to serve in their top DHS roles" by Kyle Cheney.

Article: "Bernie Sanders endorses Joe Biden for president" by Lauren Gambino.

Article: "Man Accused Of Assaulting Teen Sesame Place Employee Over Mask Policy Held On $500,000 Bail" by CBS3.

Article: "Pelosi endorses Kennedy over Markey in tight Massachusetts Senate primary" by Paul Kane.

Article: "Nancy Pelosi Says Biden Shouldn't Debate Trump: 'I Wouldn't Legitimize a Conversation With Him'" by Ken Meyer.

Article: "Trump calls for drug tests before debate with Biden" by Tal Axelrod.

Article: "Buzz around DNC speech by 'regular kid' with stutter rivals reviews of Biden's" by ABC News.

Article: "Electoral College" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Iroquois Confederacy" by Encyclopædia Britannica.

Article: "Potlatch" by Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Quote: "It would be a very strange Thing, if Six Nations of ignorant Savages should be capable of forming a Scheme for such an Union, and be able to execute it in such a Manner, as that it has subsisted Ages, and appears indissoluble; and yet that a like Union should be impracticable for ten or a Dozen English Colonies, to whom it is more necessary, and must be more advantageous; and who cannot be supposed to want an equal Understanding of their Interests." - Benjamin Franklin.

Article: "Sachem" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Fed Funds Rate History with Its Highs, Lows, and Charts" by The Balance.

Article: "When LBJ Attacked A Fed Chairman" by Tyler Durden.

Article: "The next Fed chair is not an economist. Does it matter?" (Jerome Powell) by Allison Schrager.

Article: "Yuri Bezmenov" by Wikipedia.

Video: KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov's warning to America.

Article: "What Happened With Merrick Garland In 2016 And Why It Matters Now" by Ron Elving.

Article: "Supreme Court of the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Supreme Court to hear challenge to Obamacare on Nov. 10, a week after Election Day" by Tucker Higgins.

Case: "Bush v. Gore", 2000 by Wikipedia.

Article: "John Roberts' dark and sordid history bodes poorly if the 2020 election goes to the Supreme Court" by Bill Blum.

Law: "SB-54 Hazardous materials management: stationary sources: skilled and trained workforce." by California.

Article: "Contempt of Congress" (inherent contempt, criminal contempt, civil contempt) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Democrats Drop The Hammer On DeJoy And Threaten Him With Subpoena" by Jason Easley.

Article: "House Panel Moves to Hold Pompeo in Contempt of Congress" by Catie Edmondson.

Book: The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot, Russell Kirk.

Article: "Call It What It Is: A Rabble" by James Traub.

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