The New York Times just published this story: In a Private Dinner, Trump Demanded Loyalty. Comey Demurred. The story says that two of Comey’s (anonymous) associates contradict Trump’s version of his January dinner with the-FBI Director James Comey. According to the new article, Trump invited Comey to an informal dinner. Trump insists Comey asked his people. Trump asked a (to me) frightening question: As they...
I’m not especially confident. After President Trump fired FBI Director Comey, lots of people wrote lots of words. I’m reading a lot about the political consequences for Trump. But lemmie see…. How many of our institutions are left? Trump already mowed down most of them. The FBI is frozen, and they’ll become Trump’s lap-dog soon enough. Even if they weren’t, since Trump has already captured...
Trump remains a compulsive fabulist. Trump’s letter firing Comey only had five full sentences, and yet one of them was this: While I greatly appreciate you informing me,on three separate occasions, that I am not under investigation, I nevertheless concur with the judgment of the Department of Justice that you are not able to effectively lead the Bureau. Why did Trump lie about that? It...
I’m sorry, but when I see McCain on TV, my first thought is still “media whore”. For all that Sen. John McCain is complaining to the press about Trump’s firing of FBI Director Comey, the question is still easy: whatcha gonna do about it? McCain has been quick to use these issues to get on the air. And once McCain’s interviews are over, he’s usually...
Trump’s only measure of value is personal loyalty. To him. This Washington Post article about says it: Before Comey’s firing, Trump’s animus toward him boiled over into fury, officials say. Trump had long questioned Comey’s loyalty and judgment, and was infuriated by what he viewed as the director’s lack of action in recent weeks on leaks from within the federal government. By last weekend, he...
Washington Post remains deeply lost. Former acting Attorney General Sally Yates testified under oath in open session. She and Clapper demolished the Trump Administration’s claims about what they knew, when they knew it, and made it clear they were lying about what they’d done, and why. The Trump administration did their usual thing: they made an outrageous claim, hoping the new claim would push the...
And I hate calling this a ‘massacre’ when only one guy was fired. I was going to write about regulatory capture today. That’s where an agency that’s tasked with regulating an industry is then taken over by that industry. Notice how the Patent and Trade Office grants patents to any corporation for any issues they submit, not matter how trivial it really is, so long...
Occam’s Razor. According to the Washington Post, President of the United States Donald J. Trump announced that the U.S. is poised to ramp up military in Afghanistan. This would be reopening the war that has already run for 16 years. Why? Because former Attorney General Sally Yates had just testified in an open session of Congress, explaining some of what she’d told the Trump Administration...
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