It turns out that Anthony Scaramucci still holds the world record for the shortest tenure of a Trump major chief of anything, but not by much.  He lasted 10 days as Chief of Communications.

Mark Meadows, Trump’s current chief of staff, is already talking about leaving and it’s only been four months.

But, not what you’d call a good four months.

“Look at what has happened on Meadows’ watch: the walk to Lafayette Square, the complete mishandling of the Covid-19 crisis, the defense of the Confederate flag and the botched handling of the intelligence on the Russian bounties on U.S. soldiers.

Yep, that’s pretty much a shopping list of failure.

For everybody watching, the problem appears to be the same problem every other chief of staff has had – Jared Kushner. Jared does not appear to be good at anything except screwing things up, which is also Donald Trump’s speciality.

Texas Senator John Cornyn is trying real damn hard to curry favor with Donald Trump because … hell, your guess is as good as mine.  Trump is running 5 points behind Biden in Texas.

U.S. Sen. John Cornyn said during a TV interview Thursday that it’s unclear whether children can get and transmit COVID-19. That same day, Texas reported more than 550 COVID infections in children 9 and younger.

And now, Cornyn is backing off, saying he knew for a damn certain fact that children can get the virus but his earlier statement was about transmitting the virus.

So, let’s do an experiment. Let’s bring all Texas schoolchildren back to school and find out. That seems like the simplest way to find out, doesn’t it?

Texas Democrats will pick Cornyn’s opponent tomorrow in a special election runoff.  It’s between State Senator Royce West and former Air Force pilot M J Hegar.

Trump just explained to Sean Hannity about this tax returns.

“I’m under tax audit, I have been for a long period of time,” the president told Hannity. “Once I ran for politics that deal was like we didn’t make it. So I’m under a continuing audit, and anyone that did that or showed that before you have it finalized, but they treat, they treat me horribly, the IRS. It is a disgrace what has happened. We had a deal done, I guess it was signed even. Once I ran or once I won, somewhere back a long time ago everything was like let’s start all over again.”

Remember when he made a perfect score on the cognitive test and the doctors had never seen that before, insinuating that he has more cognitive than anyone else on the planet?

Yeah.

Oh y’all, this is *almost* sad.

No details yet on what he did but I’m sure it involved deal-making of some sort.  Hey, it’s out.  Mari catches it in the comment section.

Also back into custody, Lindsey Graham.

President Donald Trump took a swing at Sen. Lindsey Graham on Thursday in the aftermath of two Supreme Court decisions involving his closely held financial records, lamenting that the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman and close Trump ally was not doing enough to target the president’s political foes.

Graham better start indicting Obama or Trump’s gonna tell Lindsey’s secret.  I’ve got a strange feeling that Lindsey’s not coming back next year, and not by choice.

Well, Trump is still strongly considering pardoning Roger Stone before he has to report to jail on the 14th – that’s next Tuesday.  Rumor has it that he’ll wait until Sunday night to do it and hope nobody notices.

Apparently his friends, yes, both of them, are advising him not to do it.

“Barr has told Trump not to do it, and if he does there will be a mutiny at DOJ,” said a source briefed on the internal debates. People close to Trump fear he won’t listen. “You can’t underestimate how hard it is to get information through to him,” a Republican close to the White House said. “When you talk to him, he just talks at you. He doesn’t like to read memos, so there’s not really a way to get through to him. Everyone agrees.”

So here we have a president who is totally disassociated from the world and makes decisions based on the voices in his head. Or the silence. You never know about these things.

My bet is that he’s going to do it and claim that Stone is a victim.  Stone will then begin yapping and make things even worse than they are now.

Hey, there’s one other tidbit in this article that amused me.  People are wondering if Jared is going to leave his White House Post (he’s the Undersecretary of Accomplishing Diddle Squat) and lead the campaign.

“If I go to the campaign, Trump might not let me back into the White House,” Kushner told people, according to a person briefed on the conversation. “As of now, he intends to remain in his current role,” an administration official said.

Remember when I said Trump has two friends?  Make that one, and if Stone goes to prison, zero.

Get a load of this foot stomping …

And this was all in eight minutes.  Honey, I couldn’t take dictation that fast, much less type it.

Has anybody told him yet that the two white guys he put on the court voted against him?

But I have to agree with him that he’s done more in 3 1/2 years than any president in history – separated children from parents and locked them in cages, wasted a boatload of money on a wall he couldn’t finish, put two incompetents on the Supreme court, gave lifetime judicial appointments to young racists and libertarians, killed tens of thousands of people in a botched pandemic, appointed fools to his cabinet, used taxpayer dollars to enrich his friends, committed treason by ignoring bounties on the heads of United States soldiers, … lemme catch my breath here … created his own personal army of Bible thumping hillbillies with automatic weapons, … your turn.