Trump in 2016: “She shouldn’t be allowed to run...If she wins, it would create an unprecedented constitutional crisis. In that situation, we could very well have a sitting president under felony indictment and, ultimately, a criminal trial. It would grind government to a halt.”

This is up there with Gummo leaving the Marx Brothers.

Each of these jurors needs police protection for as long as it takes.

Republicans believe fervently in law and order -- until one of their own, like Trump, is found guilty of flouting both law and order.

David Levy, a former Israeli foreign minister, died today at 86. He embodied many of the hopes and resentments of Israel's Mizrahis, those born in or descended from immigrants from North Africa and the Middle East. I wrote his obit for The New York Times: nytimes.com/2024/06/02/obi…

It takes a clueless Trump to claim that African-American voters are swinging over to Donald Trump "in spades."

Why is he not called for traveling?

Dr. Fauci versus a friggin moron:

Congressman Jamie Raskin apologized to Dr, Fauci for Republicans treating him like a felon: "You probably wish they were treating you like a convicted felon. They treat convicted felons with love and admiration. Some of them blindly worship convicted felons."

Sitting down to dinner, I opened a Carlsberg, whose can says it is "probably the best beer in the world." Probably. Gotta love the understatement.

If there's ever an updated version of JFK's "Profiles in Courage," New York's governor, Kathy Hochul, has just made sure that she will not be included. nytimes.com/2024/06/05/nyr…

Col. Paul Goode briefing troops before the D-Day invasion 80 years ago tomorrow: "You get your ass on the beach. I'll be there waiting for you and I'll tell you what to do. There ain't anything in this plan that is going to go right."

To quote the Bay City Roller: "Bye, bye baby, baby goodbye." nytimes.com/2024/06/06/us/…

The first 25 minutes or so of "Saving Private Ryan," which I'm re-watching on TCM, remain the most harrowing cinema footage I've ever seen. And Mrs. Ryan's collapse on her front porch among the most heart-breaking.

Watching Yankees-Dodgers at Yankee Stadium last night, I recalled a Brooklyn joke after the Walter O'Malley-led Dodgers went to L.A.: You're in a room with Hitler, Stalin & O'Malley, & you have a gun but only two bullets. What do you do? B'klyn answer: You shoot O'Malley twice.

In a speech the other day before a conservative Christian audience, Giuliani called DA Fani Willis a "ho." "Fani the ho," he said. And did the supposedly good Christians take exception? Of course not. They laughed.

This hardly comes as a surprise. Trump embodies the joke about a self-centered guy at a dinner who goes on and on about himself with the woman next to him. Finally he catches himself and says, "Enough about me. Let's talk about you. What do you think of me?"

I love the scene in "The Lost Weekend," now on TCM, where alcoholic Ray Milland tries to hock his typewriter and finds all pawnshops closed on Third Avenue. He didn't realize it was Yom Kippur. Jewish-owned or not, the shops shut their doors. Nice New York touch.