Y’all, I’ve been caught.  It was me.  I have a voodoo doll.

This went out from Trump’s campaign yesterday.

I know the writing is little so …

“You already knew the media was out to get us.

But sadly it’s not just the fake news … There are people within our own unelected bureaucracy that want to sabotage President Trump and our entire America First movement.”

You know how when sometimes when you travel you wake up in the morning in a hotel room and wonder for a couple of seconds where you are and where’s your stuff and what’s that thing over in the corner?  I feel that way all the time now.

There are people out there really confusing me.  Where the hell is their hotel room if they think anybody is sabotaging Donald Trump except Donald Trump?

A senior official in the Trump administration, who previously worked on the president’s campaign, offered a candid and brief assessment of the fallout from that string of bad press: “I don’t see how Trump isn’t completely f***ed.”

Wanna borrow this?  It appears to be in fine working oder.

Thanks to Bunny for the heads up.

I’m  old enough to remember in detail the Watergate scandal that ended in Richard Nixon’s abrupt resignation from the presidency in 1974.  Welp, it looks like we’re going that way yet again.

Did you see that story on MSM this morning about how Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s security detail attacked protestors across from the Turkish embassy in Washington?  Me neither.  If there is any coverage at all, it’s about how “violence” broke out a protest yesterday.  Watch this video:

The guys in black suits are Erdoğan’s security detail.  The protestors are across the street.  Apparently forgetting that they were in the US, Erdoğan’s goons attacked the protestors, violently punching and kicking them.  DC police were caught completely off guard, and had to hustle to stop the attack.  We understand that none of the black suit guys were arrested, just shuffled back to their side of the street.

This is what happens when the President of the United States lends credibility to an authoritarian despot by inviting him to visit in the WH.  This can’t end soon enough.

WH comms staffers just put the TVs on super loud after we could hear yelling coming from room w/ Bannon, Spicer, Sanders

— Adrian Carrasquillo (@Carrasquillo) May 15, 2017

Reporters in the WH are saying they don’t know which way to lean to overhear staff trying to grapple with the tsunami of crises of Trump’s own making.  Monday night, the shoutfest between Bannon, Spicer, and Huckabee Sanders was so loud that comms staff turned up televisions trying to drown it out.

However, their boss is going to assure that the Daily Crisis will continue.  Trump is a moron; he thought it was a good idea to take on the intelligence community?  The FBI?  That’s just plain stupid and simply political suicide by bureaucracy.  Comey was a prosecutor.  These people raise evidence gathering and note taking to an art form.  You know that this snippet from one memo is just the tip of a giant iceberg and that iceberg is only going to get larger.  In the meantime, Trump’s inner circle is getting thrown under the bus one at a time on virtually a daily basis.  The ONLY staffer who carried any weight was H.R. McMaster, but that’s over after his performance in front of the West Wing entrance the other day.

And it’s only going to get worse.  With top staffers at each others’ throats, it’s only a matter of time before the entire West Wing melts down.  If Trump survives this latest crisis, he will be so damaged that his legislative agenda will grind to a halt.  He responds so poorly to perceived slights that you KNOW he’ll tweet out some other stupid declaration that will turn his scandals into a perpetual motion machine.

You have to ask yourself why anyone with any integrity would be a part of this fiasco.  Why are wealthy and influential people staying in, much less groveling like Tillerson did on MTP last Sunday?  It’s mind blowing to watch these otherwise smart people hang on while the WH turns into Fukushima on the Potomac.  The longer they do, the more they will get irradiated from this meltdown.

The NY Times is now reporting details of Comey memos that documented Trump’s request of Comey to shut down the investigation of Flynn and the Trump campaign’s involvement with the Russians.  MSNBC is reporting that Comey kept a VERY detailed paper trail and was very worried about Trump’s interference.

So…is that a faint voice out there?  I think I can hear the faint strains of…

Senator John Cornyn has removed his name from consideration as FBI Director.

John Cornyn

Phew!

The other Republicans in the Senate were pleading with Cornyn about it because they knew that Governor Greg Abbott would appoint Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick to the senate seat just to get him the hell out of Texas.

Dan Patrick makes Ted Cruz look sane and kind.

And Donald Trump look self aware.

And Justice Scalia look liberal.

Y’all, we really dodged the bullet on that one.