SHADES OF JAN. 6, 2021! Syndicated columnist Solomon Jones of the Philadelphia Inquirer casts a more-detailed light on this expression of racism by history’s only chief executive of the U.S. to have been twice impeached — and who now is under investigation in several states at multiple levels.

“District Attorney Fani Willis in Fulton County, Georgia, is investigating Trump’s attempt to pressure Georgia’s secretary of state into ‘finding’ enough votes for Trump to win a state he lost. New York Attorney General Letitia James is investigating Trump’s questionable business dealings, as is Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. House Select Committee Chairman Bernie Thompson is leading the congressional investigation of Trump’s alleged involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection.”

All are Black — which is particularly difficult in this Trump era. Fulton County Willis asked for FBI protection following Trump’s speech.

Jones concluded in his column: “As a Black man watching him [Trump] spout his insidious rhetoric, I was mortified. Not because he was repeating his lies about winning an election he lost by more than 7 million votes, but because he was explicitly targeting Black Americans who are doing nothing more than their jobs.

“And when Trump calls these prosecutors racists, that is red meat to his followers.

“When he then says there should be protests where they work, it represents a threat that any conscious Black person understands . . . It’s why numerous news outlets begin to sound the alarm. It is why Black Americans must now be on guard . . .”

Meanwhile, our troll Just Inhale rants about a “biased” mainstream media (“MSM”) and gains a measure of support among those who don’t actually bother reading the daily paper. We’re reading every day stories headlined such as “Trump Had Role in Weighing Proposals to Seize Voting Machines” or “Some torn-up records sent to Jan. 6 panel.” Etc.

New accounts show that the former president was more directly involved than previously known in plans developed by outside advisers to use national security agencies to seek evidence of fraud.

No one argues the accuracy of such stories. Trump merely calls the Free Press “The enemy of the people” and our local troll (whoever he/she is) calls the main-stream media “biased.” Neither presents alternative or explanatory facts.

Under the first headline, the story states: “Six weeks after Election Day, with his hold on power slipping, President Donald J. Trump directed his lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, to make a remarkable call. Trump wanted him to ask the Department of Homeland Security if it could legally take control of voting machines in key swing states, three people familiar with the matter said. “Mr. Giuliani did so, calling the department’s acting deputy secretary, who said he lacked the authority to audit or impound the machines.

“Mr. Trump pressed Mr. Giuliani to make that inquiry after rejecting a separate effort by his outside advisers to have the Pentagon take control of the machines. And the outreach to the Department of Homeland Security came not long after Mr. Trump, in an Oval Office meeting with Attorney General William P. Barr, raised the possibility of whether the Justice Department could seize the machines, a previously undisclosed suggestion that Mr. Barr immediately shot down . . .”

So as he grasped unsuccessfully for evidence of fraud that would help him reverse his defeat in the 2020 Election, Trump continues to call the Press “the enemy of the people” for continuing to inform the public what he’s up to — according to people familiar with the episodes.

Another headline was over a story that began: ‘’When the National Archives and Records Administration handed over a trove of documents to the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, insurrection, some of the Trump White House, records had been ripped up and then been taped back together, according to three people familiar with the records.

“. . . despite the Presidential Records Act. which requires the preservation of memos, letters. notes, emails, faxes and other written communications related to a president’s official duties, the the former presidents infrangible shredding practices apparently continued well into the latter stages of his presidency.”

Illegal petulance? “The Archives transmitted over 700 pages of documents to the Jan. 6 Committee last month that included a melange of records concerning the events of Jan. 6, 2021, including those that were torn up and reconstructed . . .”

There is more, but I am close to the single blog word limit.