The Russians aren’t backing Trump on his story of getting Al Baghdadi, calling his announcement “propaganda”.  The Russian defense ministry says that Russia was not involved and even doubted that the raid killed the actual Al Baghdadi saying that Syria has claimed several times to have already killed him.  The shifting stories between the Pentagon, the White House, and His Orangeness’ mouth has added a lot of doubt to whether the entire tale is actually true or not.

Typical in Trumpland – nothing is clear, and everything is loud.

You knew it was going to happen – after wrecking millions of Americans’ quiet Sunday morning with an almost hour long display of boasting and lying, the truth about the raid is coming out.  The truth is that the Pentagon has been planning a raid to kill the ISIS leader since last summer after the Kurds had captured one of his wives and a courier who talked.  Those detailed plans were completely disrupted with Trump’s sudden pullout of Kurdish territory allowing Turkey, Russia, and Assad’s forces to rush in.

Rather than wait and risk Trump stupidly pulling everyone else out, a risky night raid by Delta Force was hurriedly put together.  Also, in spite of Trump abandoning the Kurds, they continued to assist US forces prepare for the raid.  They got lucky and got Al Baghdadi in spite of Trump’s incompetence, not because of his leadership.  Oh, and all the dramatic account of hearing Baghdadi’s screaming and crying that he heard on the feed?  That’s a lie, too.  No other person has confirmed that, and, as JJ pointed out, Trump was on the golf course during the raid, not in the situation room.

Are we great yet?

Former White House photographer Peter Souza used the time stamp on Trump’s official photo of the raid to determine … it is staged.

Another hint:  they all couldn’t agree where to look.  By the way, Trump was on the golf course when the raid happened.

People are teasing him again.

Thanks to Kary for the heads up.

John Kelly, Trump’s former Chief of Staff, said that he told Trump “not to hire a replacement who wouldn’t tell him the truth or that he would be impeached.”

And that’s probably true because current Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney practically bragged that Trump extorted a foreign government to screw up United States elections.

But the best part of this story is that White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham, had an answer.

 “I worked with John Kelly, and he was totally unequipped to handle the genius of our great President.”

They say she said it with a straight face. I wouldn’t know because I’ve never seen her.

If you work hard enough, you can make almost anything funny.

Yesterday I got an email from a customer giving me a heads up about voter fraud in New Hampshire.

I want to reassure this customer that the time-honored white straight male illegal voting still holds true in Texas.  This time it was done by a candidate and the man named “Precinct Chair of The Year” by the GOP County Chairman and  by another man who now sits in the Texas legislature.  Beside digging out all the evidence needed to prosecute this case, I found two witnesses willing to testify that the Precinct Chair of Year bragged about doing this.

He was never indicted or charged.

But the black woman who voted while on parole will be in prison for five years.

Because there is no white priviledge.

Thanks to Steve for the heads up.