Putin-Gate

Were Trump national security chief Michael Flynn and his crackpot son, Michael Flynn Jr, going to break into Fethullah Gulen's heavily guarded compound in Stroudsburg, kill all the guards, and put a bag over Gulen's head and bundle him off in a private jet to the tiny island where Billy Hayes of Midnight Express fame was put? All to collect $15 million from Turkey's fascist dictator, Recep Tayyip Erdogan? Sounds far-fetched even for Trump's 3 Stooges kakistocracy. But...

Manafort's crooked kidsStick with me on this... it'll all come together in a minute. Many years ago, an old, old friend of mine had a rental property in Malibu and he rented it to a young married couple. Eventually they stopped paying rent on time and then stopped paying rent altogether... and it got worse from there.

Last July, pointing out that "any true Godfather aficionado must see that the Trumps are simply a family full of Fredos," Vanity Fair published a feature by Yohana Desta, Is Donald Trump Jr. Really the Fredo of His Family? An Investigation. And they weren't the first to make the comparison. Desta begins her piece by acknowledging that Jr.

Yesterday, NBC broke the news most of all have surmised, namely that Mueller has enough evidence on Flynn to bring charges against him and his crackpot son (the one who was pushing the story about Hillary running a child prostitution business from the basement of a popular DC pizzeria (that has no basement).

Back in February, we were already talking about Wilbur Ross' amazingly shady connections with Putin's venal kleptocracy.

-by NoahAmerica has always been the result of dreams, dreams of a better future for all. If the dream depicted in this clip comes true, yes, it will be just a start, but, it will be a great day for our country and the world. Make it so. Make America Great Again. Now! Dump this trash on the scrapheap of time!

-by NoahThe tide rolls in. The tide rolls out.Sharks are intent and relentless. They have a single minded focus. You'd best not be in their sights. Sharks will chomp on anything. They can make the most unlikely things disappear. Sharks have been caught, slit open, and all sorts of things are found in their stomachs.

On Monday, Tony Fabrizio, the pollster for the Trump campaign, said he believes Bernie would have won against Trump. "I think Sanders would have had the ability to reach a lot of the less than college-educated, low-income white voters." The new survey PPP released yesterday found "a record level of support for impeaching Donald Trump"-- 49% in favor, 41% opposed. "Trump’s approval rating has declined by a net 7 points in the last month.

We know, we know... but now even Trump's main campaign pollster, Tony Fabrizio, is saying that Bernie would have beaten Trump. Imagine if Obama had never appointed Wasserman Schultz DNC chair, his second worst appointment-- or maybe tied for first-- after making Rahm his chief-of-staff...Anyway, did you see that polling data about all the U.S. senators yesterday? Vey interesting stuff. The pollsters questioned 255,120 registered voters in every state about their state's senators.

Here's Where We've Met Him Before-- And What It Tells Us About The Swamp-by Skip KaltenheuserBirds of a feather. Ever notice the gravitational pull that brings sleaze together in the legal world, how those of similar ilk find each other?