The news travels fast and
furious as the nation careens down the rabbit hole like some kind of
out-of-control freight train veering off on a siding of uncertain
length. Normally, a Friday is a slow news day, but not in tRUMPland.
Friday brought reports that the Senate Intelligence Committee has
released a bi-partisan report putting to lie the House version
stating unequivocally that the Russians interfered in the 2016
election in order to get Caesar Disgustus upon the throne. The
Senate committee thereby ratified the consensus, indeed unanimous,
conclusions of the several intelligence agencies. Meanwhile, the
Senate Judiciary Committee released transcripts of testimony around
the infamous tRUMP Tower meeting between the Russians and several
tRUMP campaign operatives, including Donald the Lesser.
It appears that the
Rescumlicans, recoiling from the stench now emanating from this White
House, have begun to regain their senses. Perhaps there is hope
after all.
Meanwhile, it was also
revealed that Stormy Daniels' attorney Michael Avellenti got his
information about Michael Cohen's notorious shell company Essential
Consultants LLC., from someone
within the banking community who stumbled upon an S.A.R. Or
Suspicious Activity Report, that banks are required to file whenever
suspiciously large sums of money are transferred. It appears that
this was only one of three such reports filed with the authorities,
the other two were referenced in this report. The other two, have
gone missing. There could be several explanations for this, one
being that the Special Council's office is already on to the
documents and has 'sealed' them, in which case Cohen is in a world of
hurt. The other explanation that leaps immediately to mind is that
the long fingers of the criminal conspirators have reached into the
financial system and expunged the record in an effort to cover their
tracks. The latter explanation, appears on its face, a bit paranoid
given that these clowns have heretofore never demonstrated such
competence. But the development does raise eyebrows as the
nation—daily deluged with revelation—struggles to keep its head
above water and take measure of its peril.
What
the documents are beginning to show, beyond all doubt, is that Cohen
(see previous posts), always a seedy figure, was about the “business”
of shaking down domestic companies and foreign governments,including
Qatar, many of which, like Ford Motor Company, refused to cooperate.
Indeed Avellenti, commenting on the revelation, said flatly in an
interview on MSNBC, that tRUMP's presidency would not survive Michael
Cohen.
It
isn't the Stormy Daniels' affair. The press, always fixated with
tits and ass when it isn't chasing ambulances, knows that these
stories are the easy ones to cover. The press knows that the public
can readily relate to salacious details involving fornication
especially if it involves passable eye-candy. Explaining complex
financial entanglements is sure to make the eyes of the public glaze
over; sure to lose your audience to some 'reality' television
program, perhaps even “The Apprentice”. But
it isn't tits and ass that makes the Stormy Daniels affair so
dangerous. It's that the tits and ass bring the kleig lights to bear
not on the seedy sex life of this bottom-feeder but upon his
exceedingly seedy financial dealings; for the story of how the modern
Caligula can maintain the facade of wealth, in spite of his long and
checkered record of business failure is one that is yet to be told;
and it is in the telling that the fraud that is Donald J. tRUMP will
finally be revealed.
Ah,
but, alas, there is more. There is always more, any one of such
revelation would have constituted, in any previous presidency, the
scandal of the decade. Rachel Maddow in her program on Thursday
raised some serious questions regarding Qatar. One will recall that
about a year ago tRUMP famously called out Qatar, our ally and host
of the largest military base in the Middle East, as well as U.S.
command center for the region, as a supporter of 'terrorism'
famously joining a blockade by its neighbors. This, it was revealed,
was an action taken shortly after his son-in-law had gone hat-in-hand
to the Emir seeking loans to shore up the boy's awful business
decision to pay twice as much for the building at 666 Fifth Avenue,
New York, than it was then worth. The Kushner family are said to be
a billion dollars in hock and desperate to have some financial
institution or government rush to their rescue. Now, it transpires,
all is well between the United States and Qatar, with the 'president'
entertaining the Emir at the White House, lavishing praise upon him,
and pledging our support for our re-discovered ally. All this, after
the Qatari government agreed to loan the Kushner's the money. This
makes Cohen's reported attempts to likewise shake down the Qatari
government look, by comparison, like peanuts. The Qatari's
reportedly see it as a “shakedown”. It sure looks like a
Pennsylvania Avenue shakedown from here.
Perhaps
it is rumblings such as these that have finally led some
congressional Rescumlicans to reassess their fealty to the 'Don' now
heading the syndicate running this government. Perhaps, we shall
see, time will tell. We do know that many are heading for the
exits, for they don't want to be anywhere near Washington when
justice comes to town. Many, dismissed by Disgustus, are beginning
to call him out. This week former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson
leveled a blistering critique of the administration for it's nearly
non-existent relationship with truth. Perhaps those in the
'political wrong' are beginning to wake up. Perhaps. As the country
careens from pillar to post down the rabbit hole into the cesspool
that is tRUMPland, the nation, overwhelmed by the stench, struggles
to catch its breath and find its bearing.
“'an Br'er Putin, he
jus' laugh and laugh”
Impeach and Imprison.
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