4/26/18: In a rip-snorting, 29-minute call to Fox & Friends, Trump decides to vent about… everything.
Part of the time he spends yelling. The rest of the time he’s
sticking his foot so far down his throat, even the Three Stooges who host
appear worried he’s choking.
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“We’ll see you next Thursday, Mr. President.”
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At one point, Trump catches a denizen of the Washington swamp in a bold-faced lie. Namely: himself.
He says Michael Cohen did represent him in the Stormy Daniels case. He tacitly admits he must have known about the $130,000 hush money payment – because he tells the Fox crew, “And from what I’ve seen, he did absolutely nothing wrong. There were no campaign funds going into this.” (See: 3/8/18.)
His performance is so unhinged even the Stooges become alarmed. Finally, Brian Kilmeade realizes it might be time to cut Trump off. “We’ll see you next Thursday, Mr. President,” he says. “We know you have a lot to do.”
As for Trump, who also graded his work in office as A+ during the call, he thought the interview went well:
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Trump felt this call went great. |
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APPARENTLY, THE THREE STOOGES aren’t the only ones who think Trump might be coming unglued. The Senate Judiciary Committee votes 14-7, to move forward with a bill to protect the Mueller investigation.
Milksop Mitch says he sees no need to bring the bill to the Senate floor; but the fact four Republicans, including committee chairman Chuck Grassley, sense danger tells us much about the fear Republicans harbor regarding the nut job in the Oval Office.
Grassley is clear about the need for protection for Mueller and any special counsels to come:
Because special counsel investigations
only occur where there is a conflict of interest within the executive branch,
special counsel investigations are usually matters of great national concern.
And Congress, by exercising its oversight powers, can help the American people
to have confidence that these investigations are conducted efficiently and
independently.
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E.P.A. ADMINISTRATOR SCOTT PRUITT, facing multiple investigations, spends the afternoon testifying in front of Congress. Did he ever think, lawmakers ask, that maybe it wasn’t a good idea to create a twenty-person security detail to protect him, at a cost to taxpayers of $3 million? Nope. His staff told him he could do it.
Did he really need to spend taxpayer dollars to be guarded by security when he took his family on vacation to Disneyland? Pruitt never saw it as a problem.
Was he aware that trickery had been employed to raise the salaries of two top aides? Pruitt says he knew nothing.
Did he realize the secure phone booth he ordered for his office was going to cost $43,000? Gosh! He had no idea.
Had he possibly noticed that one top political appointee, paid a princely salary by taxpayers, didn’t bother to come to work?
How could Pruitt have known? If she didn’t come to the office, he couldn’t see her and didn’t know she wasn’t there.
Besides, it wasn’t his fault.
The aides did it.
Meanwhile, Pruitt is preparing to submit a budget that reduces
E.P.A funding by $2.58 billion, or 23 percent.
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