One of the big lessons that Donald Trump has learned through his years at the center of the New York tabloid media is that he can normalize just about anything.

When he was getting bad press because he was having an affair on his first wife, for example, he called newspapers pretending to be his own assistant to say that Marla Maples was astonished with "the best sex ever." It changed the entire newspaper narrative, and Trump proved to himself one more time that he can normalize just about anything.

In the last four years, he has normalized a president lying to the American people on a daily basis, putting lobbyists in charge of every federal agency and then looting the federal treasury, breaking laws like the Hatch Act right out in public, and has even normalized being accused of rape.

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-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Article: "Breonna Taylor Protests Erupt Across U.S. Amid Widespread Outrage Over Verdict" by Tom Batchelor.

Article: "One Officer Has Been Indicted in Breonna Taylor's Case" by Logan Potter.

Article: "Brett Hankison: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know" by Tanay Hudson.

Article: "Kentucky AG Daniel Cameron takes heat after no direct charges are filed in Breonna Taylor's death" by Erik Ortiz.

Video: Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron full remarks at 2020 Republican National Convention.

Article: "Louisville Police Officer Filmed Giving Advice to Heavily-Armed 'Militia'" by Tom Batchelor .

Article: "More than half of exonerations involve misconduct, analysis shows" by Danielle Haynes.

Article: "Reporter Reveals How Trump Ginned Up That 'Best Sex' Front-Page Story" by Mary Papenfuss.

Article: "Report: Chad Wolf's Wife Works At Firm That Received $6 Million In DHS Contracts" by Alison Durkee.

President Trump has made more than 20,000 false or misleading claims (July 13, 2020)

Article: "Donald Trump sexual misconduct allegations" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Hatch Act of 1939" by Wikipedia.

Article: "'Play it down': Trump admits to concealing the true threat of coronavirus in new Woodward book" by Jamie Gangel, Jeremy Herb and Elizabeth Stuart.

Article: "No Distancing or Masks Required at Trump Rally" by Carolyn Crist.

Article: "Trump's promotion of armed militias risks stoking civil war" by Trudy Rubin.

Article: "Citing crime, Trump expands sending federal agents to cities over mayors' opposition" by Elizabeth Thomas.

Article: "The Trump Campaign Is Reportedly Plotting An Election Coup To "bypass" A Biden Win" by Eric Lutz.

Quote: "Voting is the Beating Heart of Democracy" - Thomas Paine.

Site: Indivisible

Site: I Will Vote.

Article: "The Republican Party's sordid history in Florida shows just how far they'll go to save Trump" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "The Election That Could Break America" by Barton Gellman.

Article: "Trump keeps telling us how he and Republicans plan to steal this election" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "For Florida Legislature, It's Full Speed Ahead to Name Electors" by Jeffrey Gettleman, Nov. 29, 2000.

Article: "CONTESTING THE VOTE: THE FLORIDA LEGISLATURE; Jeb Bush Is Said to Be Willing to Sign Bill Ensuring Republican Victory in Florida" by David Barstow and Somini Sengupta, 28 Nov 2000.

Article: "Randy Weaver" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Waco siege", 1993 by Wikipedia.

Article: "President Trump sued for fraud by niece Mary" by BBC.

Article: "Portland, federal police break up downtown protest of Breonna Taylor grand jury decision; ‘riot' declared" by Mark Graves.

Article: "Vichy France" by Wikipedia.

Tweet: "The winner of the November 3rd election will be inaugurated on January 20th. There will be an orderly transition just as there has been every four years since 1792." by Leader McConnell.

Article: "The Bush-Gore Recount Is an Omen for 2020" by Ena Alvarado-Esteller, David A. Graham, Cullen Murphy, and Amy Weiss-Meyer.

Article: "Trump says he will sign executive order on "patriotic education" in rebuke of 1619 project" by Orion Rummler.

Article: "How Congress could diminish the risks with Electoral College count" by Richard Pildes And Edward Foley.

Article: "Clarence Thomas" by Wikipedia.

Hour Two: The Economics of Police Brutality & Racism
- Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Democracy At Work / Author of numerous books - his latest is The Sickness is the System

Article: "Racial gaps cost economy $16 trillion: Citi" by Niv Elis.

Article: "Closing The Racial Inequality Gaps: The Economic Cost of Black Inequality in the U.S." by Citi GPS.

Article: "Killing of George Floyd" by Wikipedia.

Law: "California Penal Code Sec. 1533" "Upon a showing of good cause, the magistrate may, in his or her discretion, insert a direction in a search warrant that it may be served at any time of the day or night. In the absence of such a direction, the warrant shall be served only between the hours of 7 a.m. and 10 p.m.".

Article: "Louisville Has Banned "No-Knock" Raids Three Months After Breonna Taylor Was Killed In One" by Salvador Hernandez.

Article: "12th Amendment"

Article: "CIA found Russia president Vladimir Putin ‘probably directing' campaign against Biden, claims report" by Justin Vallejo.

Article: "Trump's oldest son said a decade ago that a lot of the family's assets came from Russia" by Brennan Weiss.

Article: "President Trump's son Eric ordered to testify in fraud probe" by AFP.

Article: "The Inside Story of Why Mary Trump Wrote a Tell-All Memoir" by Alan Feuer, Michael Rothfeld and Maggie Haberman.

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

Article: "Report: Trump's Pet Probe Investigating The Clinton Foundation For Some Reason" by Kate Riga.

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

Article: "How Mitch McConnell is changing the Democratic Party" by Ezra Klein.

Tweet: "Serious question for Senate wonks - how do we get Warren as Senate Minority/Majority Leader?
WATCH: In Fiery Floor Speech, Warren Rips Trump Rush to Fill RBG Seat as 'Last Gasp of a Right-Wing, Billionaire-Fueled Party' - https://go.shr.lc/3mHztat via @commondreams " by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Democrats worry Feinstein can't handle Supreme Court battle" by John Bresnahan, Marianne Levine.

Article: "Lincoln Project co-founder attacks ‘America's craziest and dumbest congressman'" by y Sarah K. Burris.

Site: National Popular Vote.

Article: "Virginia House approves bill to join National Popular Vote, bypass Electoral College" by Valerie Richardson.

Article: "Saturday - Republicans Tried Voter Intimidation at Fairfax County Government Center; Monday Morning - "Huge Line" of Voters Waiting to Cast Their Ballots!" by lowkell.

Article: "William Barr's Unsolicited Memo to Trump About Obstruction of Justice" by Jonathan Hafetz, Brett Max Kaufman.

Article: "Eyewitness testimony: Death of Portland protester Michael Reinoehl was targeted assassination" by Patrick Martin.

Article: "'Umbrella Man' Who Smashed Windows in Minneapolis Is a White Supremacist Member of Hell's Angels: Police" by Madeline Charbonneau.

Article: "Suspect in killing of 2 Bay Area officers tied to right-wing ‘boogaloo' group, prosecutors allege" by Maura Dolan, Richard Winton, Anita Chabria.

Article: "Quinnipiac Poll of Ohio likely voters shows toss-up race between Joe Biden and Donald Trump" by Seth A. Richardson.

Site: National Conference of State Legislatures.

Hour Three: How the Trump Administration is Turning Bolivia Towards Authoritarianism
- Mark Weisbrot, Co-Director, Center for Economic & Policy Research / President-Just Foreign Policy / Author of several books including "FAILED: What the "Experts" Got Wrong about the Global Economy"

Article: "Sanders, Two Dozen Lawmakers Call for OAS Accountability to Ensure Fair Elections in Bolivia" by Bernie Sanders (letter).

Article: "Silence reigns on the US-backed coup against Evo Morales in Bolivia" by Mark Weisbrot.

Article: "Just Last Week Hatch Said Obama Won't Nominate A ‘Moderate' Like Garland" by Allegra Kirkland, March 16, 2016.

Article: "Capitulation Will Not Halt Trump's Coup" by David Sirota and Andrew Perez.

Article: "City Has Paid More Than $524 Million Over Past Decade To Settle Lawsuits Against Police" (Chicago) by Chelsea Irving.

Article: "Pelosi calls coronavirus the 'Trump virus' following revived White House task force briefing" by Joseph A. Wulfsohn.

Article: "The Federalist Papers : No. 68: The Mode of Electing the President" by Alexander Hamilton.

Senate Rule: "111. Upon such articles being presented to the Senate, the Senate shall, at 1 o'clock afternoon of the day (Sunday excepted) following such presentation, or sooner if ordered by the Senate, proceed to the consideration of such articles...".

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: "Poll: Trump and Biden deadlocked in Iowa" by Caitlin Oprysko.

Article: "Has Bush v. Gore Become the Case That Must Not Be Named?" by Adam Cohen.

Article: "Trump Using Landmark Bush V. Gore Supreme Court Case To Attack Mail-In Voting" by Lisette Voytko.

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