Okay, I need to tend to some business for Momma this afternoon, but here’s some mess you can get into.

Customer Nancy let me know that an Annapolis Republican consulting firm was raided by the FBI this morning.  Now I’m not saying this is where they built the Trump Russian clone or anything like that but you never know.

Here is their website.  And to be honest, it does look way too generic (Strategic Campaign Group?) and developed too cheaply for them to be totally legitimate.

Here’s a list of the partners.  Kelley Rodgers, Chip O’Neil, and Dennis Whitfield.  Nose around the internets and see what you can find.

Thanks to Nancy for the heads up.

Update:  a trusted friend tells me that it’s Manafort’s former firm.

UPDATE 2:  Maybe.

UPDATE 3: When you keep hitting dead ins, always see the comments at Reddit – usually wrong but always entertaining.

I think it’s nice that White House Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders decided to follow in her father’s footsteps … as a snake oil salesman.

During his press conference today, Sean Spicer announced that Donald Trump is certainly aware of Senator Lindsey Graham’s concerns about Trump’s business dealings. And it is being duly addressed as we speak.

Donald Trump welcomes scrutiny of his business dealings, so …

“The President, obviously, was aware of Sen. Graham’s suggestion after he made it today and he’s fine with that,” Spicer said Tuesday. “He has no business in Russia. He has no connections to Russia. So he welcomes that.”

“In fact, he has already charged a leading law firm in Washington, D.C. to send a certified letter to Sen. Graham to that point, that he has no connections to Russia,” Spicer added. “So that should be a really easy look.”

Okay, I know that sounds crazy.  I know that paying writ twits to write a letter for you sounds like you’re trying to avoid the truth or any remote resemblance to scrutiny, but, y’all, it’s a certified letter. Certified. That’s how the United States Postal System works. Certified is the same thing as holding up your hand and swearing to the truth.  When you lick the envelope you have to say, “So help me God.”

Hey, at least it isn’t being written by his personal physician.

(In case it’s too small for old eyes — “The new FBI director will be tough, independent, and probably named Jared.”

The Washington Post corrected their story and gave you an even better visual …

I’m oh so glad we got that straight.

Thanks to Deb for the heads up.

Someplace somewhere a special prosecutor is saving a tape of this.

Today Donald Trump found time in his busy schedule to meet with the Russian Foreign Minister.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov sarcastically acted surprised Wednesday when asked a question about the firing of FBI Director James Comey during a visit to Washington.

“Was he fired? You’re kidding, you’re kidding,” he said during a brief press conference at the State Department before making a face, shaking his head and leaving the room.

Oh, that will certainly be played to a jury hearing the conspiracy case against Donald Trump.

Cute couple, huh?

Trump thinks he’s bulletproof and likes to rub that in our noses.