Nicole Lafond
Where Things Stand: Trump’s Own Impeachment Lawyer Sued Him Last Year 
As if we needed more evidence after yesterday’s performance that Trump’s hodge-podge legal defense wasn’t going great, this morning we learned that one of his own lawyers sued him last year.
And he sued him over the very issue that he will be defending the ex-president against.
Where Things Stand: Today Isn’t Really About What Trump Did
Democrats have plenty of compelling evidence against the former president — mostly because everything he’s being impeached for, he did out loud, very much in the open.
Where Things Stand: There’s A Lot We Don’t Know One Day Out
Ex-President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial in the Senate is set to begin tomorrow and there’s very little we know definitively about how proceedings will work — aside from the fact that Trump himself has no plans to make an appearance.
Where Things Stand: The Fox News We Know And Love
There might have been a brief period when the conservative, Rupert Murdoch-owned cable news network earned a sliver of respect from competitors over its coverage of Trump — most notably when it refused to retract its Arizona call for Biden, even after coming under pressure.
But it appears nature is healing. Fox News is back to its Obama-era fixations on tan suit-variety non scandals.
Where Things Stand: Mask Optics
Without naming the former President, the Biden administration has been intentional from the start about being everything the Trump White House was not. Especially on COVID-19.
Where Things Stand: A GOP Day Of Reckoning
By now we know that the meeting between Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) did not quite go as the Republican leader hoped.
Where Things Stand: Willing To Listen To Anyone, Anything
In the waning weeks and days of Trump’s presidency, we knew from his public statements and retweets of widely debunked conspiracy theories that he had little left to work with in his push to overturn the election.
Where Things Stand: More Proof Red States Welcoming Federal Vaccine Help
Austerity be damned in the age of COVID-19.
That’s the messaging from at least one Republican governor who just this morning said that being fiscally responsible at this point no longer matters as the nation reels from more than 400,000 COVID-19 deaths and an economy on life-support.
Where Things Stand: Easier To Coup
On an election night where the President thought things were going well, Arizona quickly stood out as a sore spot.
Not only did Trump hope to win the state, it was his once-beloved Fox News that called Arizona for Biden first. Trump was reportedly irate and tried to pressure the cable news network to reverse the call.