TODAY'S JOLT IS SPONSORED BY | | | On the menu today: Whether you love Donald Trump or hate him, whether you agree with yesterday's verdict or vehemently oppose it, there are several key facts to recognize. The prosecution of this case required a unique and unprecedented application of the law and a belief that the money sent to Stormy Daniels through Michael Cohen represented a campaign expense. This was not "treating Donald Trump like any other defendant," this was an expensive and time-consuming effort to seek a conviction on a matter that almost everyone had forgotten, led by a district attorney who had run for his office touting himself in the Democratic primary as the best man to seek a prosecution of Trump. Manhattan Jury Rules That Paying a Porn Star Is a Campaign Expense The editors of NR spit hot fire: In a case that will eventually be remembered as a textbook instance of selective prosecution, the Manhattan district attorney breathed life into an alleged bookkeeping misdemeanor that the statute of limitations had expired on and, ...
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| NR's Rick Brookhiser on the the complicated
life and legacy of artist John Trumbull. 
John Trumbull (1756–1843) experienced the American Revolution firsthand—his fifty-year project embodied the meaning of American exceptionalism and played a key role in defining the values of the new country. In Glorious Lessons, Richard Brookhiser tells his story of acclaim and recognition. Now available wherever books are sold.
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