FINALLY, THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF DONALD TRUMP

How come Donald Trump is not in jail yet? Well, the beginning of those lawsuits and criminal depositions is occuring:

One is almost nothing, for it had to do with his guards roughing up protesters way back in 2015.
Next, or maybe even first, Summer Zervos (right), a contestant in his The Appentice calling her a liar during his 2016 presidential campaign after she accused him of unwanted kissing and groping when she was seeking career advice in 2007, a year after she appeared on his show.

Now 75 years old, E. Jean Carrol suing Trump for defamation, for slander long after he raped her in a New York City department store way back in the mid-1990s. Circuit Court of Appeals will soon hear arguments in December.

Trump and three children, Eric, Don Jr. and Ivanka, are being sued by a group claiming the family conned them into making bad investments. Goes back to 2005. Depositions by April and trial in 2023.
Mary Trump sued the Trump family for fraud. Donald subsequently sued Mary.

Trump has at least four lawsuits by Democratic lawmakers and the Capitol Police over the January 6 U.S. Capitol riot. Has to do with violating the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871. Okay, that was unfair, for to the right is Alec Baldwin from Saturday Night Live.
Also related to January 6, a lawsuit on the Voting Rights Act, by the NAACP and Michigan Welfare Rights Organization.

The People of the State of New York v. The Trump Corporation already had a unveiling when Trump's personal financial officer, Allen Weisselberg appeared in court. More subpoenas and indictments are coming. Essentially tax fraud. In many ways these are a continuing series of incidents which began in 1998. Michael Cohen will make a reappearance.

Now add the cracks beginning to show in Republican party support of his 2024 presidential run.

Back in January, 10 Republicans in the House voted to impeach him for inciting insurrection, led by Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming. In the Senate it was only Mitt Romney.

The Lincoln Project will no doubt return in 2024, and there is an organized Republican Voters Against Trump who feel that he is a racist and thus unacceptable. Something called the Republican Voters listed several hundred thousand former Trump supporters who are disenchanted with him. Add the Never Trump Movement to the list.

More recently, the Renew America Movement, formed by centrist Republicans to neutralize Trump conspiracy theories, has endorsed candidates to compete against Trump Republicans.
As of this month, 25 members of Congress--five from the Senate and twenty from the House--have announced they will not seek re-election. All five Senators are Republicans. If Democrats can add just two more members to the Senate, Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema will become neutralized, and reconciliation can return to be effective.

This groundswell of anti-Trump activity will fracture the Republican party's attempt to win back Congress next year. While Democrats are looking like a disorganized group, they cannot be accused of being narcissistic, obsessed with revenge, liars, alienators....well, you get the point. All Democrats need is only a few Republican voters saying we can't vote for anyone who supports what he is doing, and just not show up to vote.
2024? He might be in jail.

A NEXT COVID SUBVARIANT?

By now most know that the Omicron BA.5 subvariant has become the dominant infectious agent, now accounting for more than 80% of all COVID-19 cases. Very few are aware that a new one, BA.4.6, is sneaking in and steadily rising, now accounting for 13% of sequenced samples . However, as BA.4.6 has emerged from BA.4, while there is uncertainty, the scientific sense is that the latest bivalent booster targeting BA.4 and BA.5 should also be effective for this next threat. One concern is that Evusheld--the only monoclonal antibody authorized for COVID prevention in immunocompromised individuals--is not effective against BA.4.6. Here is a reference as to what this means. A series of two injections is involved. Evusheld was developed by British-Swedish company AstraZeneca, and is a t ixagevimab co-packaged with cilgavimab . More recently, Los Angeles County reported on subvariant BA.2.75.2 . which Tony Fauci termed suspicious and troublesome. This strain has also been spreading in

Part 3: OUR NEXT AROUND THE WORLD ODYSSEY

Before I get into my third, and final, part of this cruise series, let me start with some more newsworthy topics. Thursday was my pandemic day for years. Thus, every so often I return to bring you up to date on the latest developments. All these subvariants derived from that Omicron variant, and each quickly became dominant, with slightly different symptoms. One of these will shock you. There has been a significant decline in the lost of taste and smell. From two-thirds of early patients to now only 10-20% show these symptoms. JN.1, now the dominant subvariant, results in mostly mild symptoms. However, once JN.1 infects some, there seem to be longer-lasting symptoms. Clearly, the latest booster helps prevent contracting Covid. A competing subvariant, BA.2.86, also known as Pirola , a month ago made a run, but JN.1 prevailed. No variant in particular, but research has shown that some of you will begin to lose hair for several months. This is caused by stress more than anythi

HONOLULU TO SEATTLE

The story of the day is Hurricane Milton, now a Category 4 at 145 MPH, with a track that has moved further south and the eye projected to make landfall just south of Sarasota. Good news for Tampa, which is 73 miles north. Milton will crash into Florida as a Category 4, and is huge, so a lot of problems can still be expected in Tampa Bay with storm surge. If the eye had crossed into the state just north of Tampa, the damage would have been catastrophic. Milton is a fast-moving storm, currently at 17 MPH, so as bad as the rainfall will be over Florida, again, a blessing. The eye will make landfall around 10PM EDT today, and will move into the Atlantic Ocean north of Palm Bay Thursday morning. My first trip to Seattle was in June of 1962 just after I graduated from Stanford University. Caught a bus. Was called the Century 21 Exposition . Also the Seattle World's Fair. 10 million joined me on a six-month run. My first. These are held every five years, and there have only been

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