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This Does NOT Mean You, Mr. Trump!
-Among the juicy quotes that can be culled from the 37-count indictment unsealed today against Ex-President Trump and his (mis)handling of classified documents, there are two that pop out. The first involved a conversation taken off a recorded transcript in which Trump first talks about Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Miley, telling a listener “I want to show you something. (Miley) said I wanted to attack Iran” and then adding “I have a big pile of papers.” Apparently grabbing one Trump continues, “This is off the record, but … This was the Defense Department and him. … All sorts of stuff … Except it is, like, highly confidential. Secret. This is secret information. Look, look at this.” Then the kicker: “As President I could have declassified, but now I can’t.”
-“As President I could have declassified, but now I can’t.”
-The second is a quote and a movement, in connection with the passage of the indictment discussing how Trump allegedly had workers move boxes of documents in and around Mar-a-Lago and the request to return the documents. After moving some of the documents that Trump allegedly apparently did not want to return, he discussed a different set of documents to one of his attorneys … “(Trump) made a funny motion as though – well, okay, why don’t you (the attorney) take them (the sought-after documents) with you to your hotel room and if there’s anything really bad in there, like, you know, pluck it out. And that was the motion he made. He didn’t say that.”
-Yes, you are being asked to imagine Trump making a plucking motion with his teeny tiny wee little hands to ask one of his attorneys to remove a highly classified document out of a box for Trump – by moving the documents AFTER being requested (but, it must be noted, before the search at Mar-a-Lago last summer).
-If you are wondering where the UltraMAGAts are or any of Trump’s 2024 GOP Presidential candidates are after the indictment has been unsealed, well, the closest you’ve got was a press release from candidate Asa Hutchinson asking Trump to drop out of the race, several of the more radical UltraMAGAts, including Reps. Andy Biggs (AZ) and Clay Higgins (LA) making what sounded like semi-veiled calls for violence, and House leader Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Z-Q-R, GA) and James Comer (HunteR!, KY) demanding the resignation and/or impeachment of … President Biden.
-You see, yesterday, perhaps in anticipation of the indictment, Greene and Comer and others were promoting a story that there was proof – PROOF! – that Biden has taken a $5 million cash bribe from China as part of the deal with Public Enemy Number One (to these people), Hunter Biden. The proof – PROOF! – was a letter from a so-called whistleblower,/mole that was colorfully described by freshMAGAt Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (SC) as having the very mole-ly nickname “One Eye!” The letter was helpfully described by Greene after claiming she wrote the information down after seeing it in a classified skif (which, if true, is A FELONY). There are two minor problems: the letter in question does not make any kind of claim about Biden or anyone in the Biden family (this from that ultra-progressive lefty rag Fox News), and everyone including Comer claim they can no longer find this so-called whistleblower.
-As another ex-Trump aide once said … womp womp.
-Biden was asked about all of the above, and after first simply saying “no comment,” he responded to the charge of taking a bribe with the most pointed Biden response available: “That’s a bunch of malarkey!”
-In other rather important news, multiple sources now report the Ukrainian counteroffensive has begun, with several intense battles taking place in the Eastern region of the Donbas. That as search-and-rescue missions – taking place under Russian artillery fire – continue in the area near the Nova Kakhovka dam collapse. There are also reports from the BBC, among others, that explosions were heard around that area before the collapse happened earlier this week, and while it is still unclear who is to blame, the shelling of rescue workers may be a bit of a tell.
-SLAVA UKRAINI!
-And in breathing news, New York City is somewhat more breathable after a red haze settled over the area thanks to wildfires raging in Canada. Baseball games are being played, and the Belmont Stakes will be run tomorrow. However, that haze has moved to Washington and Philadelphia, and the fires that created that cloud continue to burn. Don’t get rid of those masks quite yet …
-On this date in 1534, Jacques Cartier sailed through the St. Lawrence River. On this date in 1954, U.S. Army Special Counsel Joseph Welch exploded the House Un-American Activities Committee by asking Sen. Joseph McCarthy, “Have you no sense of decency, sir?” (FACT CHECK: he did not.) On this date in 1973, Secretariat won the Triple Crown and established his place as perhaps the greatest thoroughbred that ever lived with a still-record 25-length victory in the Belmont Stakes. And on this date in 1980, Richard Pryor suffered severe burns after an accident involving freebasing cocaine.
-Happy Birthday to Cole Porter, Fred Waring, Robert Cummings, Les Paul, Jackie Mason, Marvin Kalb, Bill Virdon, Donald Duck, Jackie Wilson, Dick Vitale, Dave Parker, James Newton Howard, Aaron Sorkin, Michael J. Fox, Wayman Tisdale, Eric Wynalda, Teddy Bruschi, Peja Stojakovic, Udonis Haslem, and Natalie Portman.
-Rest in Peace/Rest in Power to Charles Dickens, Victoria Woodhull, Robert Donat, Harold Lloyd Jr., Allen Ludden, Alexis Smith, Reid Shelton, Roosevelt Brown, Rik Mayall, and Adam West.
-Feed the Worms: Vietnam War advocate/ghoul Robert McNamara entered Earth on this date. Emperor Nero bought it on this date.
-Johnny Depp was born on this date. You decide if it is a Happy Birthday or if he Feeds the Worms.