Rudy Giuliani by Nancy OhanianAfter minor TRUMP! characters, Lev and Igor, took center stage-- by being arrested by the FBI as they were trying to flee the country last week-- Trump lied to the media, saying he doesn't know them and telling the reporters to go ask Rudy. Trump knows them well and has taken immense sums in bribes from them.
by NoahUnlike Nero, Trump not only fiddles, he's also the arsonist. Meanwhile the fire department stays in the Capitol Building dialing for dollars and doing nothing.Anyone who got paid to protect Trump and cover for him is a co-conspirator and deserves a place in a federal penitentiary. That goes for the pathological lying Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, Sean Hannity, William Barr, Rudy Giuliani and the whole lot of them.
In the time of Trumpanzees I was a monkey. What about you? Bill Graves was the governor of Kansas from 1995 until 2003, a mainstream Republican. People liked him; he was reelected with 74% of the vote.
-by NoahSeñor Trumpanzee assembled quite a team this year. Remember when Trump said he was smart and knew the best people? How could we forget? He said it during the 2016 campaign and he’s been saying it ever since. He even says those who are Nazis and those who march with Nazis are “very fine people.” Ok, to be fair, he didn’t say they were the best. He just said very fine. But that’s all just semantics. It’s the thought that counts.Maybe Señor Trumpanzee’s selection of people he surrounds himself with is not just a matter of who he feels comfortable with, i.e.
Ultimately, impeachment is a political act. If there really is an anti-Trump/anti-Ryan tsunami in 2018, the Democrats will win back the House and probably impeach Trump-- even if it means forcing Pelosi and Hoyer, who oppose any such thing, to step down as leaders. Impeachment is like an indictment; there still has to be a trial in the Senate. And 66 votes to convict.
-by NoahPresident Trump is reportedly considering limiting press briefings. Of course, he is. His desire to work his corruption and his incompetence in as much shadow and secrecy as possible should come as no surprise.
You may have read over the weekend that half a dozen members of the Trumpanzee Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS resigned and issued an angry joint letter.
Anyone who doesn't understand that the hand behind troubles Kushner-in-law is suffering lately is Steve Bannon's probably has an attention span as short as Señor Trumpanzee's. The two have been in a vicious turf war from day one and Bannon's allies made it clear the last time The Kush scored a point against Darth Bannon that he was about to see his world cave in on him.
Republican commentator David Frum was busy on Twitter this weekend: "The White House has a communications problem: it doesn’t tell the truth. The way to fix the problem is not to hire more skillful liars. However, a communications strategy based on telling the truth is not practical when the truth is more lethal even than an exposed lie." According to the latest polling about two-thirds of Americans don't believe Trump's gaslighting or any of his bullshit.
Early Sunday morning, The Atlantic published a Ron Brownstein piece, Donald Trump's Tilt Toward Convention, going through not just the campaign promises he's reneging on but the very premises for his entire presidency.
