Happy Monday.

 Keep on reading. The race does not always go to the swiftest, but to those who keep on running... * (Or, sometimes it really is WHAT you know, and not WHO you know that helps most in life.  Independent thinkers are underrated assets.  We don't need as much to live on either, just sayin'.)

When the federal indictment against Donald Trump was finally unveiled on Friday, his advisers were shocked at the degree to which investigators have made the former president’s own defense lawyer the No. 1 government witness to prove Trump committed a coverup, according to two people briefed on the matter.

After all, Trump lawyer Evan Corcoran’s professional notes of his interactions with Trump show the way the former president openly mused about lying to investigators about the existence of hundreds of classified records at his oceanside estate, Mar-a-Lago—and seemed to insinuate that his lawyer should take the fall for him by destroying evidence.

Those damning notes—which were previously handed over to federal investigators by a D.C. judge despite the firm protests of Trump’s legal team—strongly underpin the government’s case that Trump knew full well he was engaged in a coverup. Corcoran’s notes are the pivotal evidence behind the most severe criminal charge Trump faces: conspiracy to obstruct justice, which comes with the threat of a 20-year prison sentence.

But the importance of Corcoran’s role in the case, these sources said, is already setting into motion a plan to use the Florida federal court district’s auspicious assignment of a MAGA-loyal judge to essentially reverse time—by undoing the D.C. judge’s decision to hand over Corcoran’s notes.

It’s too late for Trump’s team to snatch them back from Department of Justice Special Counsel Jack Smith. But sources said they will aim to have the South Florida federal judge—whom Trump himself appointed—dismiss the charge that Trump personally schemed up ways to interfere with the feds, arguing that Corcoran’s notes should have remained private due to attorney-client privilege.

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We were just talking about that in the comments section of Maureen Dowd's column over the weekend. 

Do YOU think America is going to put an ex-President in prison?  

Do you?  Or are you being played again, much in the same way the country was played in the abortion wars??  (They are making money off of your fears and taking your freedoms, friends.  When will you learn to fight the issues, not other people?)

Politicians, and media, appear to be making promises to people -- based on falsities or misinformation -- just to polarize us.  Imagine what a better team we'd be if we analyzed the important issues more, not the dominating people in the discussion who have the least to offer on independent topics.  They're not an expert in all things, and their arrogance appears not to let them listen to others who know more.

(and admire pelvises in private all you like, but keep that stuff out of print; people get obsessed with physical details that have no bearing.)