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One of the most rare sheep in the world is the Mongolian Argali, which is listed as endangered, was the latest victim of Don Jr.’s apparent obsession with killing rare animals.  Most egregious, he killed it at night with a laser sight mounted to a rifle, and even worse, was granted a permit to kill the animal AFTER HE KILLED IT.  That’s right, folks, this sheep lives only on the high plains and mountains of Mongolia and is so endangered that less than 90 hunting permits are issued a year in the country.  Carrying the privilege gene of Donald Trump, Don Jr. isn’t bound laws like the rest of us.  He uses his dad’s position to do what he wants since so far, like Trump, he’s been above the law his entire life.

In this particular case, after the hunt, which occurred in August, Jr. met with Mongolian president Khaltmaagiin Battulga.  He received the permit, one of only 3 granted in this particular region, AFTER he had left the country, which is highly unusual.  Oh, and this all happened only weeks after Mongolian diplomats had a WH house meeting with US officials.

No privilege here, right?

Trump flew into a rage this morning after Greta Thunberg, the 16 year old climate activist, was named Person of the Year by Time Magazine.  He then attacked her on Twitter causing an even greater backlash.

As if that were bad enough, the Team Trump showed up to get even more petty.  They tweeted out the Time cover with Trump’s face photoshopped onto Thunberg’s body:

To make it worse, they posted the picture with 4 lies:

• Booming Economy (It’s not)
• Record Job Creation (Wrong)
• Historic Tax Cuts (That are causing record deficits and slashes to fundamental programs)
• #AmericaFirst Trade Deals (Not Really.  And causing the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs)
• ISIS Destroyed (Not hardly)
• Building the Wall (Not really, and stealing money from the military in the process)

There’s no stunt too silly, no insult too low, no pettiness more petty than from Trump.

Juanita Jean asked me to let all of you know that she and Bubba were injured when their car was rear ended last night in Austin.  They are both pretty banged up but she tells me they’ll be OK with some rest and recuperation.  I’ll be minding the Salon until she triumphantly returns.

Please send them positive thoughts and prayers to speed their recovery.

El Jefe

In a court filing yesterday, the US Attorney prosecuting Giuliani associate Lev Parnas claimed that he was being paid by the Russians, too, and that he was hiding the money in his wife’s name.  He received  a cool $1 million from them in September.  They have asked the judge to revoke Parnas’ bail and jail him.

More manure on the giant Trump manure pile.

To be honest, I am less interested in impeachment than I am the Supreme Court decision on releasing Trump’s financial records from the criminal enterprise known as Deutsche Bank.

I don’t know what’s there but Trump’s determined interest in keeping it secret tells me that he’s probably got loans secured by Russians and the Saudis. Plus, I’m willing to bet my best pair of pink boots that Trump isn’t a billionaire.

Ya can’t argue with numbers. Well, you can but it won’t do you much good.

The nice thing about the records is that it won’t be Trump releasing them.  It’ll be the accounting firm and Deutsche Bank.  So, that means Trump can’t sit on them and dare someone to come get them.

Thelma says the coolest part would be discovering if Putin sends out 1099’s.

Now I’m counting on Chief Justice Roberts not wanting his legacy to be Trump’s bag man.  I understand that’s risky.

The other good part is that Trump can’t protect his kids from state charges.  He can’t pardon them.  My belief is that it’ll turn into Lord of Flies within 24 hours.