6/14/18: It’s a momentous day for
Orange Leader. It’s his birthday! The F.B.I. Inspector General is going to
issue a report on the agency’s handling of the Hillary Clinton email
investigation. Orange Leader knows it’s going to be great!
Bam!
The 500-page report lands on desks all around Washington.
This is Orange Leader’s best birthday
present ever!
Former F.B.I. Director James Comey gets faulted for
“insubordination.”
And…
If you believe in the “Criminal Deep State,” as Trump and
many Trump fans do, the report is a thudding dud. What the report makes
abundantly clear is that Comey’s actions were damaging to Hillary Clinton’s
chances of being elected. No Trumps were harmed during the 2016 campaign.
The F.B.I. was not out to get Trump. (See: 6/18/18.)
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HAVE WE MENTIONED Trump fans who are also Nazis lately? (See: 5/29-31/18 and
6/12/18.)
CNN reports that a policy adviser for two pro-Trump groups
has been fired. Juan Pablo Andrade, who bills himself as executive advisor for
the National Diversity Coalition for Trump, gets his anti-Semitic ass canned
after a video surfaces, showing him shouting, “The only thing the Nazis didn’t
get right is they didn’t keep f**king going!”
Andrade’s removal from another pro-Trump group, America First
Priorities, follows the removal of Carl Higbie from the same group. CNN reported that Higbie had previously “served
as the public face of the Corporation for National and Community Service, the
agency that runs AmeriCorps.”
Who appointed him to that post?
Trump.
Why was he fired not once, but twice, in less than a year?
Higbie was first canned after a series of his racist, sexist, anti-Muslim and
anti-gay comments were uncovered.
The matter began to resurface in the press and Higbie got
canned for a second time. (See: 2/7/18).
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THE NEW YORK STATE COURT OF APPEALS dismisses a motion by the president’s lawyers to halt
Summer Zervos’ defamation lawsuit. She’s suing because he called her a liar
after she accused him of sexual misconduct during the 2016 campaign.
Zervos’ lawyer is pleased. “We look forward to continuing the
discovery process and exposing the truth,” she says. Trump moves one step
closer to being deposed in the case. (See:
4/2/18.)
Meanwhile, New York Attorney General Barbara
Underwood sues the president and all his adult children, except
Tiffany, for “persistently illegal conduct” related to the Donald J. Trump
Foundation, a purportedly charitable fund. Questionable “charitable”
actions taken by the Foundation include disbursing $10,000 to purchase a large
portrait of Donald J. Trump, which now hangs over a bar at one of his golf
resorts. There’s a “charitable” contribution of $158,000 to Martin Greenberg,
after Mr. Greenberg sued Trump National Golf Club for failing to pay a promised
$1 million reward for making a hole-in-one at a charity outing.
There’s even $100,000 in “charitable” spending to settle a
lawsuit with the city of Palm Beach, Florida.
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A charitable expenditure? Trump's painting of Trump. |
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ONE LEGAL EXPERT, namely Donald Trump Jr., senses trends going against his father. On Fox & Friends he explains why Dad,
who has nothing to hide, should never sit down with Mueller’s investigators.
I wouldn’t do it. I think it
would be stupid. I don’t think any proper lawyer would say, “Hey, you should go
do it,” because it’s not about collusion anymore. It’s about, “Can we get him to
say something that may be interpreted as somewhat off or inaccurate,” and after
50,000 questions, maybe you make a mistake, and that’s how we get you, and
that’s ridiculous.
“Listen, I don’t trust these people as far as I can throw
them,” Don Jr. says in reference to federal prosecutors. The Fox & Friends hosts nod their heads
in unison, like Bobble Heads set in motion.
Don Jr. continues:
You know, you can sit there and
ask questions for 50 hours, for 100 hours, ask the same thing 1,000 times, and
they’ll say, “Oh, the comma is different here. Now we got you.” You know, the
reality is the greatest investigative bodies in the world have been looking for
two years – two years – and they have come up with nothing.
Once again, the Bobble Heads nod. That’s their job when any
member of the Trump clan appears or calls to chat.
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EVERY RIGHT-WING “THINKER” is currently obsessing over an
email exchange between F.B.I. agent Peter Strzok and another F.B.I. agent with
whom he was having an affair. Strzok was saying what at least half of all
Americans were thinking two years ago.
Strzok was saying Trump was a terrible human being.
This email traffic, according to Rudy Giuliani – who pops up
on Sean Hannity’s show once again – proves that anyone indicted by Robert
Mueller, even those who have already plead guilty, should immediately be
pardoned. “Tomorrow,”
Rudy slobbers, “Mueller should be suspended and honest people should be brought
in, impartial people to investigate these people like Strzok. Strzok should be
in jail by the end of next week.”
Yes,
impartial people! People like Rudy! Or the first president in history to claim
he can pardon himself. People like Rudy who insist an F.B.I. agent should go to
jail. Next week! Mainly for expressing political opinions.
No
trial necessary.
POSTSCRIPT: Several media outlets point out something odd about Trump’s claims of
success since returning from his summit meeting. The North Koreans have agreed
to allow the U.S. to start bringing back the remains of servicemen killed in
the Korean War. That’s good news; and credit to Trump.
Trump,
of course, wants it to sound even better. He tells reporters how hard he worked
to get that pledge and why it meant so much to him to get it. Now the “fallen
heroes” would be coming home:
And we have thousands of people
that have asked for that, thousands and thousands of people. So many people
asked when I was on the campaign, I’d say “Wait a minute, I don’t have any
relationship,” but they said, “When you can President, we’d love our son to
be brought back home [emphasis added].”
Yes, thousands and thousands asked. The war ended 65 years
ago. If the average soldier was 18 and his parents were 18 at the time of his
birth, his parents would today be, at minimum, 101 years old.
With that, the sun sets over the nation’s capital on Flag
Day. (See: 6/15/18.)
