Mary Trump has released some of her tapes (or authorised the Washington Post to). Adverse things are mounting up for Trump, including the tax case, aka the Stormy Daniels case – in the build-up to the Republican convention. Got to love Mary. She’s got much more dirt than ever went into her book, and she has clearly been through the wringer herself. Clearly sincere – very rare in “public life”. Power to her elbow.

In the past two thirds of a century, the Republicans have started runs at the White House four times. EVERY TIME, they won the election by cheating – in three cases out of four, helped by a foreign power:

1968 – Nixon – got China to help prolong the Vietnam war
1980 – Reagan – got Iran to delay releasing US prisoners of war
2000 – G W Bush – stole the election with help of a Republican-packed Supreme Court
2016 – Trump – got Russia to help influence the election