Colbert and Kimmel examine Jack Smith's filing

While I was busy with the vice presidential debate, there was another development in convicted criminal Donald Trump's legal travails. Stephen Colbert detailed them in his monologue last night, Jack Smith Drops Massive List Of Trump’s Election Crimes | Donald To Ivanka: “Fight Like Hell”.

The 165 page filing by Special Counsel Jack Smith details the former president’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election and cites evidence, including conversations with Trump’s family members, that shows his actions were not covered by the Supreme Court’s ridiculous presidential immunity ruling.

I've been waiting for Jack Smith's response to the Supreme Court's immunity ruling as well as the opportunity to laugh at it for more than three months. I'm glad it came before the election. As for the prosecution itself, it's another example of what I repeated most recently in Meyers and Kimmel take closer looks at Sidney Powell pleading guilty and Jim Jordan's 'Groundhog Day' of losing votes ETA — I repeated it more recently in Updates on three Trump trials: "'The wheels of justice are grinding slowly in this case, but I expect they will indeed grind exceedingly fine.' May they also grind exceedingly fine for Trump and his seditious supporters, if not as slowly." No thanks to the Supreme Court, the wheels are grinding slowly here, too.

Jimmy Kimmel joked about the filing the night before Colbert did, then followed up on the debate in Trump Exposed in Damning 2020 Election Report, Pressured Pence Relentlessly & JD Vance's Untruths.

We are now 33 days away from the election, Special Counsel Jack Smith’s damning new report was unsealed and it details a mountain of evidence against Donald Trump in relation to the January 6th case in DC, many of the names are redacted but it’s not difficult to figure out who is who, Trump pressured Pence relentlessly to break the law, more than 43 million Americans tuned in for the debate between JD Vance and Tim Walz, JD had many untruths but it was an otherwise civilized discussion, Orange Julius Caesar was said to be very pleased with JD’s performance, he appears to be running out of steam on the trail, we pull out the chalkboard to break down a crazy lemonade rant Donny went on, Forbes Magazine unveiled their list of the 400 richest people in America, and fellow luminaries wish Jimmy Carter a happy 100th birthday.

No, it's not difficult to figure who is behind the black spaces. I don't even have to go to Emptywheel to find out who is who. Also, Jimmy wasn't buying Vance saying that Trump saved Obamacare, either.

Jimmy had more to say about the filing in last night's Trump's MELTDOWN Over New Election Fraud Evidence, Melania's Abortion Stance & GOP Hypocrisy is REAL.

A new bill was signed into law this week by Governor Newsom that will allow marijuana dispensaries to serve food and non-alcoholic drinks, Trump hit Truth Social hard last night to complain about the 165 pages of incriminating evidence the judge released detailing every step of his attempt to overthrow the election, he visited Michigan to rave and rant about windmills before his teleprompter went out, Republicans who were very worked up about Joe Biden’s age don’t seem to have the same problem with Trump, the MAGA faithful are still showing up and buying merch, Melania came out to promote her book and to reveal that unlike her husband she is pro-choice, RFK Jr. has reportedly had affairs with at least three women over the past year, Americans are panic buying rolls of toilet paper in response to the port strike, Trump loves America a lot, and This Week in Unnecessary Censorship.

"Rignoramus" — snort! That reminds me of what I recall writing in a tweet four years ago in response to someone posting that the Republicans were going to steal the election. I wrote that they would try, but that they would fail. That came true, but the outcome was closer than I expected. I wasn't pessimistic enough!

That's a wrap for today. Stay tuned for something other than talk show hosts tomorrow.