Friday news dump

 

Remember the Fauci facepalm?  It was the meme of 2020 as the Bernie Mittens would be in 2021.  There was even a bobblehead (only one left in stock at Amazon!).  Dr. Fauci, meet Chairman Comer.  Chairman Comer's fourth and final Biden impeachment "witness" was arrested in Las Vegas yesterday, and he's wondering how to break the news to Trump that there won't be an impeachment this year.  "I have failed you, Sir.  I have tears in my eyes."

FBI snitch Alexander Smirnov was arrested yesterday and charged with lying to the FBI about bribes supposedly paid to Joe and Hunter Biden in connection with the Ukrainian energy company Burisma.  Merrick Garland gave the job of investigating the charges to Trump appointee David C. Weiss and this time it didn't bite him in the ass.  Before Smirnov there was Tony Bobulinski, a former business associate with an uncorroborated claim about the same alleged bribe.  Before him Devon Archer had the goods until they put him under oath and then -- poof!  Not perjuring himself today.  And before that there was spy/arms dealer Gal Luft, indicted last summer.  Is Whittaker Chambers available?

Trump may not unleash his wrath on Comer right now because he's already having a bad day:  Judge Arthur Engoron ordered the Trump Organization (that's him) to pay more than $363 million for a decade of financial fraud and barred him from doing business in New York state for three years, his useless sons for two.  "The frauds found here leap off the page and shock the conscience," he wrote in his decision and the next Biden campaign ad.  Moreover, Trump's "long, irrelevant speeches" in court "severely compromised his credibility."  By now he's probably telling the media at the Stormy Daniels trial that he has already won on appeal.  His lame-duck lawyer calls it "a manifest injustice."  Habba Habba hey!

Can you stand more bad news for Trump?  Judge Aileen Cannon has denied his other bunch of lawyers' request to delay pretrial motions, which means they have less than a week to get 'em done.  So the hot documents case could come to trial well before the election.  Et tu, Aileen?  I made you and I can SWAT you.  I know where you live.

It's after five, so we probably won't find out today if Fani Willis can continue to prosecute Trump for election interference and racketeering in Georgia despite having a sex life.  It's alleged that she profited financially from her affair with one of her employees because he paid some travel expenses, a pretty desperate charge by some desperate lawyers.  Willis has been divorced for nineteen years, so it's not as if she cheated on her husband with a porn actor.  

The rest of the world is focused on the murder of Alexei Navalny -- no one is pretending it was anything less -- in an Arctic gulag.  Most of the Gang of Putin made themselves scarce, with only a few outriders (Thom Tillis, Mike Pence) calling them out.  On Monday in Dubai, Tucker Carlson was asked why he "didn't talk about Navalny, about assassinations, about restrictions on opposition in the coming elections."  Said Carlson, "Every leader kills people.  Some kill more than others.  Leadership requires killing people."  One of Putin's mouthpieces claims the murder is "retaliation" because he didn't like the softball questions Carlson asked him.  Putin has already said he prefers Biden to Trump because he's "more experienced, predictable."  In other words, they aren't even trying to be subtle this time.  How do you say "ratfucking" in Russian?




 



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