Mike Pesca

Not every allegation made against any of these folks, not all of them have been proven.

But it's notable that they only single out Donald Trump, which tells you it was a statement for an audience of one.

But in some ways, the note itself actually perhaps and maybe this was by design and maybe I'm naive on this one.

But actually, the statement.

Oddly says, OK, today's the day you're going to see a lot more Trump stuff.

And it's not going to be a great day for Donald Trump.

But I do think this is one of those stories that is.

more of an obsession with people that are obsessed with this story.

And it's hard to imagine it's going to change the larger narrative, but clearly it rattles Donald Trump.

And that brings me to, before I get to the conversation with Mike Pesco, where we sort of talk about a lot of things that I've already mentioned now, future of journalism, independent media versus corporate owned media, things like that.

is sort of step back a little bit and think about how the year began and think about the opportunity.

And it goes back to, you know, and why I think this has been such a disastrous year politically for Donald Trump and the Republicans, because it began with such an opportunity.

He came into office with, in some ways, more of a mandate than he had gotten in his first election in 2016.

He had, there was an extraordinarily unpopular president he was following.

That's a big difference in 2016, right?

Barack Obama was a popular president.

Personally, in some ways, probably, you know, he left with a pretty high job rating and a pretty high personal rating.

This case, right, he's following a president with a pretty low job rating and a pretty low personal rating.

You know, the way Biden left, really ugly, just a terrible last six months.

being pushed out of office, just looking weak.