Crash Course: Trump and consequences: After an amazing series of unforced errors, indictment is coming

Trump and his lawyers keep making things worse, and he's now the DOJ's target: The irony is dark, but delicious [View in browser](~/AASU4wA~/RgRk9wpBP0Q2aHR0cHM6Ly9yZWFkLmxldHRlcmhlYWQuZW1haWwvY3Jhc2gtY291cnNlL2xldHRlci80ODczVwNzcGNCCmMGRIUUYzNEut1SG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjg1QGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAKA~~) Your daily update from [Salon](~/AASU4wA~/RgRk9wpBP0QWaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2Fsb24uY29tL1cDc3BjQgpjBkSFFGMzRLrdUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NUBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAACg~). (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images) Trump and consequences: After an amazing series of unforced errors, indictment is coming The last week in August is usually a sleepy time in America, news-wise. A gigantic blanket of heat settles over the country, driving everyone inside, or to beaches and lakeside retreats. Congress is in recess with the president typically vacationing somewhere that features refreshing breezes if not cool temperatures; cable news anchors have retreated to their second homes in the mountains or by the seaside; even newspapers tend to take the slow-news days to run culture features on trendsetters and hip designers who have set the looks everyone will be sporting in the fall. [Read the rest from Lucian K. Truscott IV.](~/AASU4wA~/RgRk9wpBP0RyaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2Fsb24uY29tLzIwMjIvMDkvMDMvYW5kLWNvbnNlcXVlbmNlcy1hZnRlci1hbi1hbWF6aW5nLXNlcmllcy1vZi11bmZvcmNlZC1lcnJvcnMtaW5kaWN0bWVudC1pcy1jb21pbmcvVwNzcGNCCmMGRIUUYzNEut1SG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjg1QGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAKA~~) (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images) Promotion from Finny [Sign up for free!] Game-based finance education for working adults! When it comes down to learning good money habits, there's so much jargon out there. Finny's newsletter, The Gist, is different. 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(Library of Congress/Interim Archives/Getty Images) Jim Crow lives again: Florida and Mississippi turn back the clock on voting rights Some 130 years ago, white lawmakers gathered in Jackson, Tallahassee, Richmond and other state capitals across the former Confederacy and rewrote their state constitutions to enshrine white supremacy. Over the last week, Mississippi and Florida have offered modern-day examples of Jim Crow-era voter suppression that endures to this day — enacted by state legislatures, enabled by governors with White House ambitions and enforced by federal judges — and that continues to keep hundreds of thousands of citizens, disproportionately Black, from the polls. 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Evidently, that's a number of deaths and admissions Congress can live with. Two thirds of the country is vaccinated, and just about a third are boosted. And with the need to aid the defense of [Ukraine](~/AASU4wA~/RgRk9wpBP0QjaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2Fsb24uY29tL3RvcGljL3VrcmFpbmVXA3NwY0IKYwZEhRRjM0S63VIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo), COVID is, evidently, so yesterday. President Biden, in post–Labor Day campaign mode, has said that he wants to "save the soul" of America. But his administration and the Democratic-led Congress are risking a lot putting the health of the body politic on the back burner by letting COVID pandemic aid lapse. [Read the rest from Bob Hennelly.](~/AASU4wA~/RgRk9wpBP0R5aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2Fsb24uY29tLzIwMjIvMDkvMDMvdGhlLXN0ZWVwLWRlY2xpbmUtaW4tdXMtbGlmZS1leHBlY3RhbmN5LXJhaXNlcy1xdWVzdGlvbnMtbW9zdC1wb2xpdGljaWFucy13YW50LXRvLWF2b2lkL1cDc3BjQgpjBkSFFGMzRLrdUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NUBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAACg~) Have a tip for Salon? Feedback on this newsletter? 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