The impeachment trial has adjourned for the weekend after only two hours. Impossible to listen to for more than 2 or 3 minutes at a time, Trump’s lawyers alternated between yelling “Nuh Uh!” and lying. In the face of a mountain of evidence, they kept repeating that Trump did nothing wrong without actually refuting any of the charges or said evidence. It’s going to be a long 22 hours left. The lies will be neck-deep by then.
As we’ve already discussed, Sarah Sanders admitted to Robert Mueller that she lied about FBI agents opposing James Comey. When the press started reporting that, she immediately went on the attack, lying about lying about lying. She did it again this morning on national television, and frankly I’m sick of her polluting the WH press room. Nothing she says is remotely true, and even if it was, she can’t be trusted that the bile spewing from her mouth is true or not.
Time for her to go. #lyingSarah #Sarahsgottogo
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…
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:
Money is interchangeable, and difficult to trace. Over the last 10 years, Cohen has likely been paid millions of dollars in graft legal fees. $130,000 is pocket change in Cohen’s and Trump’s world. Which leads to one last question – why didn’t little Stormy settle for such a piddly amount since she held serious sway over the election? Maybe she realized that Trump voters simply don’t care that their candidate is a complete waste of oxygen and would vote for him anyway, so she settled for what Trump offered.
The only consistency in the most erratic presidency in US history is falsehood. Trump’s entire career and image are build on a mountain of lies, and lying is so deeply imbedded in his DNA that he will tell a lie even if telling the truth is easier and better for him. NBC News culled through the encyclopedia of his lies and picked out their top 9. Here they are:
This is a pretty deplorable list, for sure. What’s your favorite lie told by Trump this year?
We’ve all heard it…hell, most of us have spoken it. We know it’s as true as our knowledge that the sun will rise in the east tomorrow. The Russians worked to get Donald Trump elected to the most powerful office in the world. And he and his team colluded with them, and WikiLeaks, to do just that. And NOW, the worst president in the history of the United States is now infesting OUR White House, twitter raging from the toilet and binging on Fox Noise. Jesus, what a travesty.
But, I digress. As we all know, Mike Flynn, fired National Security Advisor and now confessed felon, flipped on Trump to save himself and his son from long sentences in federal prison. Where that goes can’t be good for whoever is left in the White House. But let’s look at what Mueller got Flynn to plead to, which is lying to the FBI. To me, this points to Mueller’s direction in this case, which is not collusion, which will be very tough to prove and prosecute, but to obstruction of justice. Trump’s spastic and ever-changing stories on Russia, Comey’s firing, Flynn’s firing, and his chaotic administration all point to Trump’s desperate attempt to lie his way out of this problem, but it’s not working. The more he lies, the more press he gets, but also the brighter the spotlight shines.
In his past life as a real estate promoter and game show host, Trump lied on a regular basis. He has not held to any normalized standard because he was only screwing his investors, his contractors, his game show contestants, and his banks. Now he’s screwing around on the world stage, and his conduct just simply won’t fly here. Because he’s a tool for the hard right conservatives in the congress they enable this abhorrent behavior. However, once Mueller and the FBI make their case, it will be virtually impossible to protect him.
I have been saying since the first moment of this train wreck, the Trump administration will not end well. Those who voted for him and still support him will have to explain to their grandkids why they did.
File under Sumbitches:
Yesterday, Newt Gingrich, career philanderer and prolific liar, made the head-snapping pronouncement that a US president “cannot obstruct justice“, and can fire anyone he wants to fire, regardless of legality. His comments were made at the National Press Club where he was peddling his new collection of fairytales, Understanding Trump, which is his usual pile of manure delivered with the gravity of a college professor. Apparently to Gingrich, there is a completely different set of rules for a Democrat in the WH than for a Republican.
Never burdened by the truth or a sense common decency, Gingrich is famous for delivering these kinds of proclamations that swing from one wild lie to another, changing his “sincere” belief to match whatever argument he’s positing at the time. This proclamation, though, is especially egregious; when he was speaker of the house, he lead the impeachment of Bill Clinton for lying about having a sexual affair and obstruction of justice. To make matters worse, at the time of the impeachment, he was having an affair himself with his current wife, Calista, while going after Clinton for his affair. He was forced out of the Speaker job in 1999 under a storm cloud of ethics violations and election losses.
Gingrich is a shameless liar and his books are useful as two things: Kindling and toilet paper.