Trump has been pushing (against all of his medical expert’s advice) that everyone try malaria drug hydroxychloroquine sulfate, falsely claiming twice that the FDA had cleared it for use against COVID-19.  We now know why – the largest manufacturer of the drug is Novartis.  In 2018, Novartis agreed to pay Michael Cohen (you know, Trump’s personal attorney who is now in jail) $1.2 million dollars for access to Trump.  What a coinquidink that Trump is now hawking their drug from the WH briefing room.

This presidency can’t end too soon.

We ate all the popcorn and drank all the lemonade during Michael Cohen’s testimony yesterday.  I have to confess that I slipped a little adult beverage in during the last couple of hours just to steady my nerves.  The news is describing the testimony as bombshells, but it just confirmed pretty much everything we knew anyway.

So, here’s my question:  Is any of this testimony a surprise?  I mean, really; Donald Trump is a slimy, two bit slum lord who was able to make enough name of himself from his reality television show that, for some unknown reason, people wanted to pay him money to put his name on their buildings.  That’s pretty stupid in itself, but on top of that, he was denied a gaming license in Australia because of his ties to the Mob.  We’ve known that for 30 years.  He’s a serial liar, even when it’s easier to tell the truth (see Barack Obama’s birth certificate).  He’s lied about everything from his personal taxes to his “foundation”, to other charitable contributions, to you name it.  He’s in bed with the Russians AND the Chinese, if that’s even possible, uses the State Department for his own personal gain and coverups.  He even gets military doctors to lie about his height & weight.  Jesus.

As I watched the Repubs try to discredit him and the Dems ask him question after question, I was shocked about how not-shocked I really was.  I mean, here’s a guy confirming that Trump really DID collude with the Russians to get dirt on HRC.  He really DID pay off a porn star and Playboy model in the weeks just before the election.  He even worked on his Russian Trump Tower project right up to the election and continued his private business into his time in office.  This guy should have never been elected, but he should have been run out on a rail over two years ago.

But now, we’re all just numb, and sick of the whole sordid affair.  I do know one thing, though; every person who has supported him and his lies, from Senators to everyday voters have forfeited their right for LIFE to get scandalized by anything done by Dems or their supporters.

And THAT is my new rule.

While the nation was reeling under the tsunami of convictions, plea deals, and indictments yesterday, John Cornyn was blithely unconcerned.  In a media scrum late yesterday he dismissed courtroom events, saying,

“People who do bad things, who break the law, need to be held accountable, but this doesn’t add anything to the allegations of misconduct relative to the Russia investigation.  How does this implicate the president? I don’t think it implicates him at all, especially on the Russia investigation.”

To say this, Cornyn would have to be simply bald-faced lying or be the victim of a very effective lobotomy.  The point: Cohen pleaded guilty to illegally paying off a Playboy model and porn star to keep them silent and influence an election for PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.  He said UNDER OATH in a federal court that he did it at the direction of his former boss, Trump.  It doesn’t get much more illegal (or obvious) than that.  For Cornyn to stupidly proclaim that it doesn’t implicate Trump in that crime lays bare his own corruption and unsuitability for high office (or any office for that matter).

The Trump clown car, now with two flat tires and a leaking head gasket, is still running enough to keep only the sell outs aboard.  Everybody else has fallen off (or are on their way to jail).

There is a place for anger, and THIS is it.

Breaking this afternoon, Fox Noise screamer Sean Hannity has now been tied to TWO more Trump attorneys.  They are Victoria Toensing and Jay Sekulow; Sekulow is Trump’s lead attorney in the Mueller investigation, and you’ll recall that Toensing is the wife of Joseph diGenova, a Fox screamer and who Trump named to his legal team earlier this team, only to disqualify himself due to “conflicts of interest”.

It gets better…

Sean Hannity, obviously flailing around for an excuse after he was outed yesterday as the third “secret” client of Michael Cohen, was chastised last night by Fox talking head Alan Dershowitz for not disclosing his personal relationship with Cohen.  Hannity retorted that he has a “right to privacy“.  Well, actually, no, you don’t, Sean.  You get on national television 5 nights a week spouting BS about everything from wild conspiracy theories about anyone not Donald Trump, and have been vigorously defending Cohen.  Also, you are a public figure and have used your status as a public figure to line your pockets with cash from your sycophants.  For once, I agree with Dershowitz that he should have disclosed his relationship to Cohen.  Not doing so simply peals another layer of the rotten onion that is Fox Noise.

Michael Cohen, Trump’s longtime personal attorney, has now admitted that he indeed paid porn star Stormy Daniels $130,000.  He’s just not saying for what, except that he paid it out of his own pocket and was not reimbursed.  Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, had previously claimed to have had an affair with Trump, then denied it, and now refuses to answer any direct questions about it.  Cohen has also denied the affair and now won’t answer questions about it.  So…

1. We can assume the obvious which is right in front of us where Trump had an affair with a porn star; when she threatened to go public during the campaign, Trump had his lawyer do the dirty work to shut her up.  Or…
2. Cohen just decided to give the porn star $130,000 just because she has a nice pair….uh, never mind; he was just being nice to her.
3. They’re all lying and you just have to make your own assumptions.

One has to ask – Why in the world would a New York lawyer with a celebrity client who’s famous for sexual escapades just give $130,000 to a porn star, who just happened to claim she had an affair with said celebrity client?  Oh, and why would he pay that out of his own pocket without reimbursement?  The answer is obvious, and Cohen’s explanation of the whole sordid episode doesn’t pass the straight-faced test.  He claims the “transaction” was legal and had nothing to do with Trump’s campaign.  I wish him luck with that argument in court over the complaint filed with the FEC that the $130,000 was not an in-kind donation to the Trump campaign.  I can’t wait to hear the reason he paid a porn start that kind of cash if it wasn’t for the obvious reason.

Next, Cohen must think his audience is stupid.  He paid for the bribe legal transaction out of his own pocket? Right.  Money is fungible.  Here’s the definition of fungible: