Putin-Gate

-by Valley GirlI stumbled upon the above YouTube almost by accident. Watching it set me off researching. I knew Jay Sekulow was an attorney for Trump, but there was far more that I didn't know about him that what I did know about him. I still don’t. But I do know more, now. And, about the American Center for Law & Justice (ACLJ)-- which I’d never heard of before.The Washington Post on June 19 had a um… mixed…  article about Jay Sekulow:

The pee-pee tape, which Trump-- the world's biggest liar-- adamantly claims doesn't exist, was revealed to exist in the Steele dossier, which Trump claims is all bullshit.Most of it has already been proven to be spot on. But no one has seen the film of Russian prostitutes urinating on Trump. But don't give up. A Russian neo-Nazi, Nikita Isaev leader of a fascist party, New Russia Movement, claims "they" have the tape.

-by Valley GirlI lived in England for 10 years, a good while back-- 1975- 1986. I was in Cambridge as an academic. And, I lived with a Welshman, a Cambridge don. He was the first person ever from his small town in Wales, Merthyr Tydfil to be accepted to the University of Cambridge. Many Americans I knew, but not in my department, managed to live in Cambridge within the American bubble.

Republican politicians, Senators Tom Cotton (AR) and Thom Tillis (NC) are very different characters but there is no way to accurately describe either one of them without using the words "right wing" or even "very right wing." Each was on TV yesterday, Tillis with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday, and Cotton with John Dickerson on CBS news' Face the Nation. Believe it or not, somehow Señor Trumpanzee came up in both conversations.

On Saturday, Israel's Haaretz reported, with a sense of irony, that Trump National Security chief H.R.

Blavatnik pumps huge sums into GOP politics-- and to certain corrupt DemocratsAcademic Ruth May overlooked something in her blockbuster report, Tangled web connects Russian oligarch money to GOP campaigns, for the Dallas Morning News.

Thursday morning Trumpanzee was up early tweeting his nonsense about his pal Putin. He decided it blame the Republican-controlled Congress-- hi, Paul! hi, Mitch!-- for the deterioration of relations between the U.S. and Russia. "Our relationship with Russia is at an all-time & very dangerous low.

-by NoahThe Mooch is gone. Well, he’s at least gone from his temp job at America’s number one show “Asylum White House”. He’s Fired! Maybe he should have pleaded that “it was just locker room talk.”Moochie only lasted 10 days, but, hey, what a fab 10 days it was! Now, he’s been escorted out the gate.

The only known photo of Cohen-Watkick outside of MoscowWay back in April, we warned DWT about a low-profile Trumpist connected to the Kremlin, Ezra Cohen-Watnick, likely to cause problems for Americans in the future. Kremlin spy Michael Flynn brought him into TrumpWorld.

You probably recall that back in mid-June the Senate voted 97-2 to impose sanctions of Russia and to prevent Trump from removing them without congressional approval. Congressional Toadie-in-Chief Paul Ryan has-- at least until now-- pleased Trump by preventing the Senate bill from being voted on in the House.