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CLR Show 1843. Air Date August 15, 2023.  if convicted on racketeering charges in Atlanta, Donald will receive a mandatory 20-year sentence (i.e. a life sentence.) To receive bail prior to trial he will have to prove to the Judge that he would never attempt to influence a witness––a virtual impossibility––and he could never be pardoned by either a US President or a Georgia Governor. Given his chronic incapacity to accept responsibility for anything, fleeing the country prior to conviction becomes a wholly imaginable and perhaps his sole 'viable' option. (Will the Justice Department turn a blind eye?)

CLR Show 1842. Air Date August 11, 2023.  Donald would have us and his followers believe that he is in the strongest possible position. In reality, with three-going-on-four indictments, and trials coming in the middle of primary and election season, he is in the weakest. His formalized criminality will do exactly what one would expect it to do––make him toxic to most voters. And his November, 2024 performance, if he is available to run at all, will be more akin to that of Mike Dukakis than anything else.  With Friday Co-Host, David Bach.  

CLR Show 1841. Air Date August 8, 2023. If Donald, with all of his legal and moral baggage, were to re-appear on that first 2016 republican debate stage, he would have been booed off of it by his fellow candidates and republican voters. And so republicans of today must ask themselves: Why is this thrice-indicted, chronically lying, anti-American, patently amoral man being openly embraced today by republicans and their evangelical cronies?   

CLR Show 1840. Air Date August 4, 2023. The Jack Smith 1/6 indictment is airtight. The vapid, emotional responses of Trump's attorneys and minions has underscored that fact forcefully and repeatedly. Add to that the fact that Trump is incapable of admitting fault or loss, is possessed of no moral compass, has no off switch and will do anything––repeat, anything––to stay out of jail and regain power, and you have the makings of an American Saga for the ages. Stay tuned. With CLR Friday Co-Host, David Bach.

CLR Show 1839. Air Date August 1, 2023. With the unsealing of the 1/6 indictment against Trump and (as this is written) unknown others, America enters the final, extended episode of the Donald Show. The basic script has been written; trial, conviction and incarceration before the 2024 election are all but assured. The question remains: how will the centrist republican leadership navigate away from the Donald fantasy and reunite the party with mainstream American values and aspirations?   

CLR Show 1838. Air Date July 28, 2023. Donald's image management, no matter how successful in the past, will soon be no match for the 4 criminal indictments that will be weighing on him. The grievances of his most loyal sycophants and the hand wringing fears of those who believe in their imagined power will all be subjected to the real-world drubbing that will be issued to Donald by Chris Christie in the first Iowa debate. It won't be a fatal blow but it will have severe and lasting consequences.  With Friday Co-Host, David Bach.

CLR Show 1837. Air Date July 25, 2023. The January 6th-related indictment of Donald marks the beginning of his political and legal end. He will be convicted and sentenced and, his predictable protestations notwithstanding, he will become a functional irrelevancy to the nation and the republican party. But can the republicans successfully disinamour themselves of Donald? To not do so will alienate Independents for a generation and relegate the republican party to extended political irrelevancy... or functional extinction.        

CLR Show 1836. Air Date July 21, 2023. Even the liberal media is encouraging us to extrapolate outward to certain electoral doom every time Donald or one of his minions does something outlandish. Yes, be concerned, but suppress the urge to panic. There's only one certain extrapolation: the indictments, trials, convictions and sentencing of Donald will have a severely negative impact on his ability to run or govern. The odds of him ever holding public office again are below miniscule. With Friday Co-Host, David Bach.

CLR Show 1835. Air Date July 17, 2023. A special interview with John D'Emilio, Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and a major force in the development LGBTQ history, and gay and lesbian studies in America.  As a noted historian, quoted by Supreme Court Justices Kennedy and Sotomayor, he is optimistic that the current pushback against LGBTQ gains is an historical blip, and that hard earned LGBTQ rights will remain a viable part of our social and political landscape.    

CLR Show 1834. Air Date July 11, 2023. At the very same moment: Joe Biden is representing America at a revitalized NATO conference, projecting American competence, commitment and leadership to the world... while Donald's lawyers go for broke and request a Mar-A-Lago documents trial date 'after' the 2024 election in  a desperate bid to allow a convicted Donald to pardon himself. Which America do we choose?