But before more from the Regent Seven Seas Voyager, the continued travails of Donald Trump news.   First, that hush money trial in New York is making Trump look bad , indeed. Second, the state of  Arizona indicted eleven Republicans for trying to overturn their election results in November of 2020,  now the fourth state after Georgia, Michigan and Nevada. Perhaps the most important decision, however, will come after the Supreme Court today hears arguments on whether a former president can be prosecuted for a crime.  I think the Supreme Court will say he is NOT immune, and that they will announce their verdict by early summer, if not earlier, allowing for either the 6January2021 Trump coup attempt trial to occur, or the Georgia case, before October of this year. Light lunch of salami sandwich, salad and garlic vegetable soup, with rosé wine and beer. An assortment of dessert items. We departed Istanbul for Mykonos.   Had dinner at the French restaurant Chartreuse.  Ordered a mushroom tr

The U.S. House finally passed the   $95 billion war/humanitarian needs aid bill   for Ukraine, Israel, Indo-Pacific (mainly Taiwan).  The Senate will act on this package Tuesday and President Joe Biden will sign it.  Speaker Mike Johnson (right) is using something novel, bipartisanship,  fiercely condemned by Republican loyalists.  More Republicans opposed the legislation, 112, with 101 in support, plus 210 Democrats.  Who gains?  Defense contractors, those countries and Joe Biden.  Who loses?  Donald Trump.   This budget victory is a sign that the Trump effect is weakening. About Trump and his hush money criminal trial in New York, various  viral trails of interest .  Keep in mind that the media attention is about a sex scandal, but the  real matter has to do with hiding information, keeping an issue hidden from voters ahead of the 2016 presidential election .  This illegal ploy worked, for Trump's narrow victory over Hillary Clinton would probably have been reversed if this bit o