March 22, 2018: "Fake News" 2, Donald Trump 0.

 

3/22/18: John Dowd, lead lawyer in Trump’s dealings with the Mueller investigation, resigns. 

Dowd’s replacement will be Joseph diGenova, famous for floating the theory on Fox News that evil forces inside the F.B.I. and Justice Department are working to frame Donald J. Trump. 

Haberman and The New York Times get it right.

Ironically, just eleven days earlier, Trump employed a pair of tweets to attack the “Fake News” people at The New York Times: 

The Failing New York Times purposely wrote a false story stating that I am unhappy with my legal team on the Russia case and am going to add another lawyer to help out. Wrong. I am VERY happy with my lawyers, John Dowd, Ty Cobb and Jay Sekulow. They are doing a great job and.....

 

...have shown conclusively that there was no Collusion with Russia..just excuse for losing….The writer of the story, Maggie Haberman, a Hillary flunky, knows nothing about me and is not given access.

 

So, Haberman had lied. She had said Dowd was on his way out. Now, what do you know? 

Dowd is out. 

It is also announced that National Security Adviser H. R. McMaster will be leaving that post. Just three weeks earlier, Trump had insisted that talk of his leaving was “Fake News.” McMaster had caused friction with his boss in part because he said proof Russia meddled in the election was “incontrovertible.” If this were baseball, the score would read: Fake News 2, Trump 0.

 

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THE EVENING ENDS with a “bang” when Anderson Cooper interviews Karen McDougal, former Playboy Playmate of the Year. McDougal explains in detail how she carried out a ten-month long affair with “Art of the Cheat on Your Wife Deal” Trump, back in 2006-2007. She mentions that the first time they had sex he offered to pay her, which took her aback. 

She’s sorry now, she tells Cooper. She’s sorry she helped Trump cheat on his third wife. In one exchange she describes being spirited through a back entry, into Trump Tower and ushered up to Donald and Melania’s penthouse suite. She says it made her feel creepy and she asked to leave. You wonder: Was Trump going to ask her to be “intimate” and defile his marital bed? 

The White House denies, pro forma, that this affair occurred.