I'm still hoping lots and lots of people watch the Republican #CocaineConvention. That's because I think it will turn off independent voters and may even persuade some mainstream-- as in non-fascist-- Republicans to stay home on November 3rd. Unfortunately, according to Nielsen, just 15.9 million people watched, a 28% drop from 2016.
No, Trumpanzee isn't crazy for tossing out pardons like they were rolls of toilet paper in Puerto Rico. He's creating an environment for when he has to protect himself by pardoning Manafort, Michael Cohen, Flynn, Papadopoulos, Carter Page, Gorka, Kushner, Ivanka, Roger Stone, Wilbur Ross... the whole swampy regime.
Today was the dual hearing on the unconstitutional nature of Joe Arpaio's pardon and on his own request to vacate his conviction. That's a little context for an understanding of what role Michael Dreeben is meant to play on Robert Mueller's team looking into Putin-Gate. Greg Farrell did the reporting for Bloomberg on how Mueller can tackle the expected preemptive pardons Trump is expected to start handing out to family members and regimistas.
