Not the National Inquirer.  Oh dear.

Pecker and Trump

Well, come to find out the National Inquirer’s publisher David Pecker has flipped on Trump.  Pecker was the guy who bought exclusive rights to the stories about Trump’s mistresses and then never published them.

According to a new report from Vanity Fair’s Gabriel Sherman, however, Pecker has now been granted legal immunity to spill dirt to investigators about allegedly illegal payments the president made to past mistresses during the 2016 presidential campaign.

It is said that Pecker will collaborate Cohen’s story about the illegal campaign contributions to cover up Trump’s hotsy totsy activities.

Here’s the fun part: one of Trumps unnamed allies is quoted: “Holy sh*t, I thought Pecker would be the last one to turn,” the Trump ally said.

Nah, that would be Melania.

Thanks to SGray for the heads up.

Okay, so last night I was watching the teevee and some damn Republican fool on CNN said that Manafort had been exonerated on ten counts, like that meant he was pure as the driven snow.

Anderson Cooper said that a deadlocked did not mean exonerated.

But, y’all, it’s worse than that.

Ok, the Guardian wins the internet today.

It’s worth a trip.

Thanks to Kary for heads up.

The Austin American Statesman published an editorial by Little Bubba and his buddy, Big Bill.  Little Bubba has had all he can take from Ted Cruz’s defense of people’s right to endanger the lives of other people and call it the First Amendment.  Pretty much the same for the Second Amendment, too, but that’s for another time.

So, he wrote an editorial for the Austin.

You can read it right here.

Enjoy!

Here’s a starting place …

If anyone is looking for a good porn star to make whoopee with while married, I strongly suggest you don’t retain the services of Stormy Daniels.

If anyone is looking for an EPA Director without kinky ideas about phone booths or a shopping addiction, I would strongly suggest that you not retain the services of Scott Pruitt.

If anyone is looking for a pleasantly foul-mouthed White House Director of Communications who can help you with your PR problem while not drawing attention to himself, I would strongly suggest that you not retain the services of Anthony Scaramucci.

If anyone is looking for a Chief Strategist who people trust, looks professional, and won’t write a bad book about you, I strongly suggest that you not retain the services of Steve Bannon.

If anyone is looking for a National Security Advisor who doesn’t do that squat dance wearing a Russian bear hat while whistling “Power to the Putin” and “Lock her up!”, I strongly suggest you not retain the services of Michael Flynn.

If anyone is looking for a campaign advisor who is not Putin’s boy toy and who freely yaks to the special prosecutor, I would strongly suggest that you not retain the services of George Papadopoulos.

You know this could go on forever, right?  Feel free to add your own.

While the nation was reeling under the tsunami of convictions, plea deals, and indictments yesterday, John Cornyn was blithely unconcerned.  In a media scrum late yesterday he dismissed courtroom events, saying,

“People who do bad things, who break the law, need to be held accountable, but this doesn’t add anything to the allegations of misconduct relative to the Russia investigation.  How does this implicate the president? I don’t think it implicates him at all, especially on the Russia investigation.”

To say this, Cornyn would have to be simply bald-faced lying or be the victim of a very effective lobotomy.  The point: Cohen pleaded guilty to illegally paying off a Playboy model and porn star to keep them silent and influence an election for PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.  He said UNDER OATH in a federal court that he did it at the direction of his former boss, Trump.  It doesn’t get much more illegal (or obvious) than that.  For Cornyn to stupidly proclaim that it doesn’t implicate Trump in that crime lays bare his own corruption and unsuitability for high office (or any office for that matter).

The Trump clown car, now with two flat tires and a leaking head gasket, is still running enough to keep only the sell outs aboard.  Everybody else has fallen off (or are on their way to jail).

There is a place for anger, and THIS is it.