6/28/18: I think President Trump had better hope he gets to appoint about a thousand federal judges, not just another ideologue from the right to fill Justice Anthony Kennedy’s place on the U.S. Supreme Court.
He may need a sympathetic judge sooner than he thinks.
I say this advisedly, as the legal problems of Paul Manafort continue to multiply and the clear logic behind the F.B.I.’s original interest in investigating the Trump campaign grows more pronounced. An application for a search warrant unsealed by the courts Wednesday reveals that the F.B.I. had evidence Manafort and his wife received a $10 million loan from a Russian oligarch with close ties to Vladimir Putin.
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Lies of
all sorts – even moronic lies.
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More ominously, from the point of view of Manafort and the president’s whole crew, Reuters explains:
The search warrant application
also confirmed that Mueller has been investigating Manafort’s role in a June 9,
2016, meeting that he attended at the Trump Tower in New York between Donald
Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer and self-professed Kremlin informant who
purportedly was carrying damaging information on Hillary Clinton, the
Democratic nominee for president.
The FBI sought “communications,
records, documents and other files involving any of the attendees of the June
9, 2016, meeting at Trump tower, as well as Aras and Amin Agalarov,” said the
application, which misspelled the first name of Emin Agalarov.
Aras Agalarov is a Russian
oligarch close to Putin who joined the elder Trump in staging the 2013 Miss
Universe contest in Moscow. His son, Emin, is a popular singer.
Considering all the lies that surround this meeting, you wonder. Why have so many people involved lied and lied as often as they have?
Of course, we all realize there are different kinds of lies the President of the United States employs to get through his day. There are political lies: He will repeal and replace Obamacare with ease.
There are the lies that bolster his ego: I would have won the popular vote if all those illegal voters hadn’t stormed the polls.
There are the lies he tells loved ones: I did not boink the porn star. I did not boink that Playboy Bunny. Nor did I boink the housekeeper.
Then there are the lies involving the Russian investigation – that is, lies to save his orange hide.
Sometimes there are gratuitous lies and on slow days Trump may even bust out a moronic lie. Trump tells another today at a rally in Wisconsin. To the applause of his history-impaired fans, he revisits his great 2016 election victory. It’s the greatest ever! The crowd roars. He reminds everyone, Wisconsin “hadn’t been won by a Republican since Dwight D. Eisenhower, in 1952.”
Trump beams with that announcement. He’s contemplating his own greatness. The crowd cheers.
Trump continues: “And I won Wisconsin. And I like Wisconsin a lot, but we won Wisconsin. And Ronald Reagan, remember, Wisconsin was the state that Ronald Reagan did not win.”
This is a moronic lie, and one Trump could easily have
avoided – except that he likes to make sh*t up as he goes. The one state Reagan
did not win in 1984, for the sake of accuracy, was Minnesota.
So, Trump is wrong about Reagan and wrong about Minnesota.
If we check the map for 1980, we see Trump is wrong again and Reagan won Wisconsin then too. You can throw in Eisenhower, winning Wisconsin in 1956. And you can see Trump reaches the “moron level” when you realize Richard Nixon won Wisconsin three times. He won Wisconsin in 1960, but lost the general election, then won again in 1968 and 1972.
Politifact, which checks statements presidents and other
politicians make, awards Trump a “Pants on Fire” rating. This rating is
reserved for the biggest, boldest, most ridiculous lies our leaders tell. This
marks the eightieth time Trump has been cited for a “Pants on Fire”
lie since announcing he would run for office
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