* “God, Guns And Trump”: New campaign hats on display at the recent Freedumb Summit in Kissimmee.
* “All Gave Some, Some Gave All, One Had Bone Spurs.”–Vets Against Trump T-Shirt.
* Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds has endorsed Ron DiSastrous. Typically, Iowa governors stay neutral before the January caucuses. Trump remains a heavy favorite in the Silo State. How important is Iowa for momentum? The last three GOP winners: Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum and Ted Cruz.
* “Father Time is undefeated. Donald Trump is not exempt from any of that.”–Ron DiSastrous.
* Legacy reminder: The national debt actually increased by nearly $8 trillion during the Trump Administration. It’s not “fake news.” And it’s something Trump would have had to defend had he participated in the Miami debate. So, however cowardly, as Chris Christie labeled it, Trump’s no-show seems a strategic success.
* If Trump escapes the slammer and wins the nomination, speculation will be rampant about a running mate. Reportedly, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Kid Rock are still in the populist mix.
* “I had no involvement and never worked on my father’s statement of financial condition.” That was Eric Trump in the context of his father’s civil fraud trial over inflated net worth. Bottom disingenuous line: He was only the vice president of the Trump Organization, so he wouldn’t be involved in serious financial matters. Another day at the orifice.
*” I beseech you to control him if you can. If you can’t, I will.”–New York state Judge Arthur Engoron to Trump’s attorney at his fraud trial.
* A reminder of the best, self-serving, strategic response under oath: “I don’t recall”—Ivanka Trump.
* “He has incredible vision that other people don’t.”–Donald Trump Jr., the visionary’s son, at his father’s trial.
* “Each courtroom defeat, small and procedural or a full-on guilty verdict, simply fans the flames for (Trump) rally crowds.”–Peter Van Buren, The American Conservative.
* Exporting Trump: Hard-right icon Geert Wilders and his anti-European Union Party for Freedom finished first in recent parliamentary elections in the Netherlands. Wilders is known as the “Dutch Donald Trump.”
* Remember when South Carolina GOP Rep. Joe Wilson shouted “You lie!” as President Obama addressed a joint session of Congress and laid out his health care proposal? What an outrage. And what a precursor. It did get worse.
* Donald Trump got a Rick Scott endorsement. So what.