Too many scandals to count.

Early on April 6th, the New York Times reported that the C.I.A. Had Evidence of Russian Effort to Help Trump Earlier Than Believed.  According to the story, the CIA knew Russia was helping Trump as early as last summer.  (Funny that they’re only mentioning this now.)

Anyway, late on that same April 6th, Trump launched 60 Tomahawk missiles against Syria.  Most of the press coverage admitted the strike against Al Shayrat, a secondary Syrian government airfield, was mostly a political statement with only modest military results.

I still wonder if part of the attack’s appeal for President Orangina was political.  Committing an act of war is a monstrously big distraction, and this is a guy who needs bigger and bigger distractions almost daily.  Trump is a person who cannot ever be wrong about anything, in any light, by any detractor.  And he’s running an administration that’s a punchline of comically bad nominations, a worse cabinet, and probably the most disastrous performance of any new administration in recent memory.

[My first draft of that last sentence started with, “This is a man who cannot…”, but I changed it.  Trump seems constitutionally incapable of being a good man, or even knowing why he isn’t.]

So yeah, I think another big distraction would have felt pretty spiffy to the Big Dorito at that moment.  I’m not saying that was his overriding reason, but its odd how he didn’t notice dying Syrian kids before Wednesday.  Or since then.

Still no policy change on Syrian refugees.  Lots of new Trump tweets, though.