Walter Shapiro: “The 2022 midterm campaigns—with spending on TV ads alone likely to come close to $10 billion—have become a consultant’s dream. Almost everything spontaneous has been drained out of American politics. Now campaigns are almost completely waged with dueling 30-second spots in which

“No, we won. Fuck you.” — Roger Stone, in a documentary clip showed at today’s January 6 Committee hearing.

“The day before the 2020 election, Roger Stone, the long-time Republican operative and ally of former President Donald Trump, said in front of a documentary film crew that he had no interest in waiting to tally actual votes before contesting the election results,” CNN reports. Said Stone, in the

Paul Manafort told Insider that he makes no apologies for his actions that landed him in prison. Said Manafort: “What’s different is my unwillingness to incorporate into my life people who have not proven themselves to be honest with me.” With a memoir, Political Prisoner, coming out this month,

“A judge said Monday that he would not delay the contempt of Congress trial of Steve Bannon, just one week before it is set to begin,” NBC News reports.