When Donald Trump complains that the prosecutors, the judge, and the jury have treated him unfairly, do not believe him. I’ve been in court every day of this historic criminal trial of a former President. I spent over a decade as a criminal prosecutor in Manhattan. Let me be

It only takes ONE juror to hang a jury. Juror #2 answered that Trump’s Truth Social was their only source of news and not even THAT person voted Not Guilty on even ONE charge.

Please save your rigged/sham/kangaroo takes for your echo-chamber friends & donors.

Today TWELVE persons ENDORSED voir dire by Trump’s attorneys + prosecutors FAIRLY & REASONABLY found him guilty of ALL 34 felony counts. Trump can CLAIM “the trial was rigged”…unless he won. Democracy is imperfect but Trump’s a tyrannical tumour who destroys what he can’t have.

I wonder if ABC management realises the Liberals and Nationals are not the government, do not control their purse strings and have been rancid in their treatment of the Corporation going back decades.

Dr Monique Ryan MP (Kooyong)
🔥Today in Parliament:

“Who do you think that we should help more - a young person who can't afford to buy a home, can't find a rental and can't pay off their HECS debt or multinational companies earning multibillion-dollar profits exporting

Peter Dutton has lashed out at journalists in a lengthy tweet following bombshell reports his department released 102 sex crims, including 64 child sex offenders, and two men convicted of accessory to murder into the community — thwarting L-NP attempts to politicise immigration.

The CSIRO stands by its analysis on cost of nuclear power plants in Aus after the Coalition attacked the work, which contradicted LNP claims reactors would provide cheap electricity and be available within a decade (not by a country mile).
Ted O’Brien and Dutton:
WRONG AGAIN!

TONE DEAF ☎️
Telstra sacks 2,800 employees (9% of workforce) in move to save $350M. CEO Vicki Brady announced the move to the ASX before today’s trading began. She’ll be working the phones in damage control mode.😏
Privatisation = shareholders over people. reuters.com/business/media…

I've covered every budget since 1998. They normally don't leave me angry. But a $6.5b decision forced on the current government contained in last week's budget is still upsetting me .. theage.com.au/politics/feder…

Watch this with caution - it is very graphic. But for those whose first question about domestic abuse is 'Why doesn't she leave?'
This footage should reframe that question to: 'Why won't he let her leave?'

When you have nothing else to offer keep the masses distracted from other issues with crude red meat populism. Dutton isn’t about detail - he’s about short, hard, nasty nationalist rhetoric. Dutton is one big whitebread sandwich with nothing in the middle. 9news.com.au/national/oppos…

Let’s just take a moment to imagine the scenario in which Jacqui Lambie is the Treasurer and has to deliver a counter inflationary budget in an unstable transition economy.

#auspol #budget24

Turns out the Secret Service’s conspicuous attempt to conceal guilt by conveniently deleting their Jan 5th & 6th texts after the J6 Committee’s request for them, is now an official criminal investigation. Karma.

The ATO saying that that 90% of landlords are lying on their tax returns is wholly unsurprising.

The federal court has ordered Bruce Lehrmann to pay all of Ten’s legal costs, save those tied to Ten’s statutory privilege defence.
Whether he ultimately seeks the sanctuary of a bankrupt is actionable but it remains, nonetheless, one very expensive hat.😏 theguardian.com/australia-news…

The man wrongly named by Channel Seven as the Bondi Junction stabbing attacker has asked the NSW Commissioner of Police to prosecute social media users who also misidentified him. ab.co/44zp0Ux

Never ceases to amaze me that Labor - in power for two years - yet expected to fix not just the economy but every single issue the LNP fvcked up.

Why is the bar in politics always so high for Labor, so low for the LNP…
Oh yes, we have a broken media #Murdoch #ABC

#insiders

The Murdoch press reporter Clare Armstrong chastises Labor for a lack of transparency.
FFS this from an employee of a corrupt, law breaking multinational that engaged in phone hacking of celebrities, a murdered schoolgirl, bribed police and covered it up!
#insiders

Mike Carlton Ms Williams is driven by very honourable motive but her efforts, reflective as they may be in her very real trauma, have alienated people who genuinely want to focus on a remedy to end the scourge of violence against women. One fears an opportunity has been lost in the process.😔

Jack Hopkins An America awash in so much weaponry that mitigating guns is akin to draining an ocean. Meanwhile gun thugs keep moaning about their Second Amendment right to possess killing machines which the authors of the Second Amendment couldn’t have dreamed of in their darkest nightmares.