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Shakespeare and Trump

by Tom Muri
| August 8, 2021 12:00 AM

William Shakespeare anticipated a Trump-like scourge almost half a millennium ago when he wrote the play “King Henry VI.” A famous line from such, “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers” (Part II, Act IV, Scene 2) is apropos today as Trump and his followers fight to overturn the legal election of 2020 which President Biden won by over 7 million votes (over 4 percentage points) and 306 to 232 Electoral College votes. It wasn’t even close, folks...

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