The, er, uh…(urp), President of the United States says he based his charge that the former President of the United States “wire tapped” Cheeto Tower on an assertion made on Fox Noise.  Doubling down, he then asserted that British intelligence did it at the former President’s request, also heard on Fox Noise.

Both charges were completely discredited by the Director of the FBI and the Director of National Intelligence.  There is ZERO evidence that either of these claims are true.

Two conclusions:

1. The President of the United States uses Fox Noise as his prime source of information.
2. Fox Noise is not a reliable source for ANY kind of information.

That is all you need to know.

So right in the middle of the hearing, Trump starts tweeting about the damn hearing.  I am not kidding.

Rep. Jim Himes read the tweet to Comey.

“Thanks to the modern technology that’s in front of me right here, I’ve got a tweet from the President an hour ago saying ‘The NSA and FBI told Congress that Russia did not influence the electoral process.’ So that’s not quite accurate, that tweet?” Himes asked.

“It certainly wasn’t our intention to say that today,” Comey answered. “We don’t have any information on that subject. That’s not something that was looked at.”

Oooooohhhhh.  Busted.

I also enjoy Trey Gowdy’s adventure in made-up rumors about bad stuff that he can’t prove either.

How about we let Trump come and let Gowdy question him.  It will be a lallapalooza of crazy!

Although Trump keeps telling us about his beautiful wall along the border, I have doubts it will be any more beautiful than a toad.

The Texas Observer announced that Trump is already trying to condemn private property along the border.

Noel Benavidez, a former Roma city councilperson, said he received a condemnation notice about two weeks ago for 5.8 acres of his land. … Benavidez and his wife own 155 acres of an original Spanish land grant deeded to their family in 1767 by the King of Spain. Benavidez said that he and others in Roma are deadset against a border wall in their backyard. “Once the land is destroyed, it will never be the same,” he said. “We have oaks and mesquite that have been there for generations, foxes and other animals and an ecosystem that has been untouched.”

Come to find out, Trump plans to hire 20 government lawyers to fight the lawyers that the landowners have hired.  This has become a lawyer full employment measure.

The Observer has a nifty little graph explaining how it’s gonna take 50 or 60 rocket scientists and brain surgeons to figure out how to build the damn wall.  You can’t wall a shared river, a canyon, or the second largest lake in Texas.

One other thing, people grounded in reality say that Trump’s estimate of $2.6 billion to build the wall is comical. It’s more that $21.6 billion and not a dime of it will come from Mexico.

I hate to deny Trump the joy he takes in harassing these families along the border and spending money like a drunken sailor, but it’s gotta stop.

CNN is offering commentary.

Some of you have told me that you don’t have a Twitter account.  That means you’ve missed Donald Trump in the last few hours.  Start at the bottom and read up.

Oh, this is kinda fun.

White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney went on “Face the Nation” this morning and explained sacrifice to us all.

Mulvaney agreed that he knew the bill would hurt children and prevent them from having access to nutritional food from organizations like Meals on Wheels, but he wants people to know he’s suffering too.

“Yes,” he began. “I don’t have a business card to give to you today, John, because, at the Office of Management and Budget, we have to pay for our own business cards. So it does start at home but it’s already started.”

Seriously.  Let them eat business cards.

Start at about time 5:15.

Yeah, he learned all that slick from being a member of congress.

The New York Times researched his claims that Meals on Wheels and educational programs don’t work.  They found that he’s a damn fool.

Thanks to Charles for the heads up.