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.

Where to start, where to start – In the last 24 hours it’s come to light, despite the frantic efforts of the WH to spin the story differently, that Trump was outraged at Comey’s investigation of his ties to Russia. His impatience with Comey boiled over when, while testifying before the Congress Comey said that he was “mildly nauseous” to think that he had a hand in electing Trump. He then decided to fire Comey, and ordered the letter from Rosenstein to make a case against him.  When the letter was finished, Jeff Sessions, who had supposedly recused himself from the Russia investigation, was called to the Oval Office where Trump told him he was using the letter as justification to fire Comey.

That evening and yesterday morning, Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Kellyanne Conway went on national television and lied on every network that Rosenstein had acted on his own when, in fact, he was ordered to write the letter.  The evening of the firing, a clearly rattled Sean Spicer was cornered by the press apparently hiding from reporters behind the bushes on the north lawn of the WH.  When discovered, he reluctantly gave an interview in the dark, insisting he didn’t want to be on camera.

THEN, the next day, Trump was played by the Russians when foreign minister Sergey Lavrov and ambassador Sergey Kislyak were invited to the Oval Office for a closed door meeting.  The only photographs of the meeting were from an agent of Tass, the Russian state news agency who tweeted them out live.  That’s correct, US press photographers were blocked from the meeting, while the Trump WH allowed a Russian propaganda agent into the Oval Office who live tweeted the meeting through the Tass website.   No breach of security there, eh?

This morning, the aftershocks of this latest disaster are actually getting worse.  The NY Times has published an open letter to Rosenstein urging him to appoint an independent counsel from outside the FBI and DOJ to run a fully independent investigation of the Trump-Russia connection, telling him that is his only choice.  The talking heads on MoJo are exploding today.

We may be closer to the end that even the most optimistic among us can imagine.  Reports of Trump sitting in the residence shouting at his television are common, and I can imagine that most WH staff are preparing resumes to get the hell out of there.  The Republicans on the Hill will reluctantly begin to acknowledge that they’re being herded over the cliff as part of this slow motion catastrophe and begin to move against him.

I see no scenario where this presidency doesn’t end disastrously, and it can’t come soon enough.

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.