BAIL TO THE CHIEF: Lawyers for Donald Trump reached a strict agreement in which he will be released on $200,000 bond after his arrest in Atlanta this week. According to the agreement he is also constrained from intimidating witnesses, and victims or communicating directly or indirectly about the facts of the case with any codefendants except through his lawyer.

  Eighteen defendants were indicted with Trump on charges of attempting to illegally overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia. Also reaching a bond agreement were lawyers John Eastman, Kenneth Chesebro, and Ray Smith. They will all be released after posting only $10,000 cash.

  The bond agreement also says that “the defendant” … Trump … “shall make no direct or indirect threat of any nature against the community or to any property in the community” and that includes “posts on social media or reposts of posts made by another individual on social media.”

  The defendants have until noon on Friday to submit to arrest. Trump said he would appear for booking on Thursday. He may have his fingerprints and a mugshot taken.

DISASTER POLITICS: President Biden and his wife Jill yesterday toured the burned out town of Lahaina on Maui. “The devastation is overwhelming,” Biden said as he stood near the 150-year-old banyan tree in the center of town that is a local landmark. 

  The President’s motorcade on the way into town passed dozens of protesters angry about what they believe was his initial lack of response to the disaster. This was despite Biden making an immediate statement, ordering up federal aid, and sending 500 federal personnel to the island within a week. 

 Maui’s recovery will take years. Already there are fears that developers and land speculators will move in and push out the locals as the town rebuilds. “We will be respectful of the sacred grounds and the traditions,” Biden said, “and rebuild the way the people of Maui want to build, not the way others want to build.”

  About 850 people are still listed as missing after wildfire levelled the town, according to local officials. They say that 85 percent of the disaster area has been searched. As yet, 115 bodies have been found and only 27 of them identified.

THE DAY AFTER: Los Angeles and San Diego appear to have escaped major damage, but Tropical Storm Hilary left behind hillside collapses, debris flows and flash floods that covered streets and roadways in parts of San Bernardino and Riverside counties, leaving residents, motorists, and emergency responders stranded.

UNBORN: In Texas, where Gov. Greg Abbott declared that “As long as I am governor of the great state of Texas, Texas will always protect the unborn,” the governor just signed a law giving doctors leeway to provide abortions in Texas when a patient’s water breaks too early and for ectopic pregnancies. The law was pushed through by a Houston Democrat who was careful to keep the word “abortion” out of the bill.

  Proponents of abortion rights in states where the procedure is banned or close to it have said such laws deny doctors and women the ability to make necessary medical judgments about troubled pregnancies. In Texas, doctors who perform abortions face a $100,000 fine, loss of their license, and even life in prison.

  Texas State Representative Ann Johnson, the author of the bill, said she wrote it to draw a distinction between elective and medically necessary abortions.

FLEET OF FOOT: American Sha’Carri Richardson, who missed the Tokyo Olympics after testing positive for marijuana, won her first world title in Budapest finishing with a time of 10.65 seconds in the 100 meters. Shericka Jackson of Jamaica was second, at 10.72, and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, also of Jamaica, was third, in 10.77.

  The world record is still held by American Florence Griffith-Joyner, set at 10.49 seconds in 1988.

THE SPIN RACK: Seven schoolchildren and an adult in Pakistan were left dangling for hours today 6,500 feet up a cable car after two of its cables broke. Rescuers were using a helicopter. — Ignoring objections, Japan says it will begin this week releasing treated radioactive wastewater from the ruined Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant into the ocean. They plan to eventually discharge over a million tons of the water into the sea. — The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco yesterday filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in response to 500 lawsuits over child sexual abuse dating back decades. Victims said it’s an attempt to dodge justice. — The song “Rich Men North of Richmond,” a working white man’s lament about business and politics, has reached #1 on the Billboard singles chart. 

BELOW THE FOLD: The president of the Spanish soccer federation apologized for kissing one of the players on the lips after the Spanish women won the World Cup. Luis Rubiales said, “Probably I made a mistake.”

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