Marie: Here's a strange thing I kinda wondered about this morning, and now it turns out others are wondering as well: ~~~
~~~ Jennifer Bahney of Mediaite: “... Donald Trump claimed Sunday that he personally inspected the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool’s condition as U.S. Park Service crews continued to try to clean up the ever-expanding algae blooms.... Trump returned to the White House Sunday from Camp David, where he spent the night for undisclosed purposes. White House reporters did not record a visit by the president to the reflecting pool.... Trump wrote on Truth Social[:] 'I just inspected it, and could only say to myself, and those gathered around me, WOW, who would do such a thing? SICK, DERANGED PEOPLE! We will fix it? [sic] President DJT.'” ~~~
~~~ So (a) what was Trump doing at Camp David, which he doesn't like & seldom visits? It seems some secret shenanigans must have transpired. (A tryst? A medical procedure?) And (b) why was he claiming he went and inspected the Reflecting Pool when it's almost certain that he did not? Would the press have just neglected to record a visit that advanced one of the top political stories of the day? I don't think so. Is Trump so out-of-it that he doesn't realize the press tracks his every move? That's what his version of reality suggests. I mean, he made an imaginary visit to a place where imaginary SICK, DERANGED PEOPLE are persecuting him, and then he told the world about his imaginary adventure. WOW, indeed.
Gabe Cohen & Tierney Sneed of CNN: “The Trump administration is threatening to withhold tens of millions of dollars in federal homeland security funds from states unless they adopt a sweeping set of election changes, according to multiple sources and internal documents obtained by CNN. The move ... as multiple states have passed laws that seek to prevent the federal government from interfering with elections. Under new rules governing several homeland security grant programs, states must take a number of steps, including phasing out certain electronic voting systems and moving to hand-marked paper ballots. They must also run their voter rolls through a controversial Department of Homeland Security citizenship verification database. If not, states would lose out on some funding from DHS. These grants, expected to total more than $1 billion in the current fiscal year, are one of Washington’s main vehicles for helping state and local governments prevent terrorism, protect infrastructure and prepare for major disasters.” ~~~
~~~ Here's what one conservative judge thinks of Trump's using strong-arm tactics against states. ~~~
~~~ Kyle Cheney of Politico: “A federal judge has thrown out Justice Department grand jury subpoenas aimed at Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and his allies, calling them an abusive and retaliatory process to punish Walz based on his refusal to assist ... Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. In a blistering ruling, U.S. District Judge Patrick Schiltz said there was 'no doubt' that the subpoenas were issued to damage Walz — part of what he said was a pattern of Trump administration efforts to use criminal process to punish the president’s adversaries.... The federal government is barred by the Constitution from forcing states to enforce federal laws, Schlitz added.... Though Walz [MB: I think Cheney means Schiltz, not Walz, here] issued the ruling last week, he said he delayed release until Monday to allow the Justice Department to appeal. But court dockets reflect that no appeal has been filed in the five days following Schiltz’s decision.” Schiltz is a George W. Bush appointee. ~~~
~~~ Update. Former U.S. pardons attorney Liz Oyer said on MSNBC Monday afternoon that quashing a subpoena is quite a remarkable and unusual occurrence; there is "a very high legal bar to block a subpoena. A subpoena is an investigative tool" prosecutors can use, she said, before they have any real evidence a crime has been committed. They need have only "a good-faith basis" to believe an investigation of a possible crime is warranted.
~~~ Marie: Wouldn't it be something if Congressional Republicans had the guts this Dubya-appointed judge does? Tenure matters.
Hurubie Meko & Ann Marimow of the New York Times: “The Supreme Court on Monday reversed a lower court decision that had reopened the case of the man convicted in the killing of Etan Patz, a 6-year-old boy whose 1979 abduction in Manhattan reshaped American childhoods. The court’s unsigned opinion restores the conviction of the man, Pedro Hernandez, who the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit had said last year was entitled to a new trial. The three liberal justices — Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson — noted their objection to the majority’s order.”
Eric Lau & Erin Cox of the Washington Post: “Americans are voting this year for Democrats at far higher numbers in primaries and special elections compared with previous contests, suggesting that voters are unusually motivated heading into November.... Turnout is rising in Democratic primaries even when they aren’t hotly contested and the nominee has little chance of winning in the general election.... So far this year, people cast 12.6 million ballots in Democratic House primaries compared with 8.6 million in GOP primaries. Democrats have also been making big gains in special elections since ... Donald Trump began his second term. Election experts caution that trends in primary and special elections trends do not always predict results in general elections.”
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The New York Times' live updates of developments in the Iran War are here.
Oona Hathaway in a New York Times op-ed: “The war in Iran has made one thing clear: Even the most powerful state in the world is not all that powerful when it decides to act alone.... Acting only with Israel..., [Donald] Trump believed he could use the unparalleled might of the U.S. military to overwhelm Iran and force it into submission. The president did not seek approval from the U.N. Security Council, as required by the United Nations Charter, making the war illegal from the start and thus radioactive for many of America’s traditional allies. He did not consult with partners in the region before starting a conflict that put them at direct risk.... By the time [Mr.] Trump decided to seek wider support to stop Tehran, it was too late to build a coalition.... Mr. Trump ... fails to understand that what made America great was not its power to achieve its ends unilaterally but its singular ability to build international institutions that embodied its values and interests and that others wanted to join.” ~~~
~~~ Marie: Trump's failure on the international stage is very much like his failure at home. He is an extreme example, but he illustrates perhaps the main reason that success in business does not translate to success in governance. To run a democratic country where power is split among branches of government, the most important talent is to be able to form agreements; it is, to coin a phrase, "the art of the deal." But one has to be able to make deals, not just get a ghostwriter to pretend you are an expert negotiator. While it certainly would not hurt for a CEO to be a good negotiator, she could successfully run a corporation -- corporations are top-down organizations -- without being a smooth operator. On the other hand, running a government, or even a sub-branch of it, is a job -- as former Democratic Senate Leader Harry Reid said -- "like herding cats." And, in the long run, those cats respond better to persuasion than to threats. Carrots rather than sticks. Looked at that way, Trump doesn't aspire to be a dictator solely because he craves power, but also because of his own severe limitations: lacking even minimal skills of persuasion, intimidation is the only way he knows how to exert his will. ~~~
~~~ Here's a good example. An online Guardian headline yesterday: "Trump threatens Iran after JD Vance hails ‘great progress’ made in Switzerland talks." I don't know if Trump wants Vance, et al., to fail -- he may -- but it's obvious to anyone (except Trump, I guess) that insulting and threatening your opponents is not a winning negotiating technique. This is not a clever good-cop/bad-cop strategy; it's a stupid bully butting in to gum up the works. And this: ~~~
~~~ Aamer Madhani, et al., of the AP: “Senior negotiators from the U.S. and Iran on Monday wrapped up a lengthy round of initial talks aimed at solidifying a permanent end to the war between the countries. The mediation effort in Switzerland started Sunday and had rocky moments. But it also led to some agreements between the two sides. Mediators Qatar and Pakistan hailed what they called 'encouraging progress' made during the talks as Iran and the United States agreed to create a 'de-confliction cell' to address the fighting in Lebanon. A senior U.S. diplomat claimed progress on multiple fronts, including the establishment of 'mechanisms' to ensure the Strait of Hormuz ... remains open and that a ceasefire in southern Lebanon holds. Yet the talks between the U.S. and Iran, who were accompanied by Qatari and Pakistani officials, was jolted by blistering statements from ... Donald Trump, who from thousands of miles away from the Swiss negotiating venue at a mountainside resort near Lake Lucerne was firing off comments that offended the Iranians.” The headline on the AP's main page is, “US-Iran talks enter new phase after Trump’s threats shake first day of negotiations.”
A War About Nothing. Neil MacFarquhar of the New York Times: “Neither the war nor the agreement ended what U.S. and Israeli officials regard as the main threats emanating from Iran. The country’s nuclear program, while heavily damaged, was not eliminated — its fate punted to future negotiation. The same goes for its ballistic missiles, which the deal does not address. Iran’s authoritarian regime endured, albeit with new leaders. Its proxies remain a threat to the region. Israel and Hezbollah, the Iran-backed militia in Lebanon, persisted in attacking each other.... For its part, the Islamic Republic is set to receive potentially substantial financial rewards. That is one substantive change....”
A trail of destruction. Imagine their reaction if Obama had done even one of these things. pic.twitter.com/zpVxJdZ3iw
— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) June 20, 2026
~~~ Thanks to RAS for the link. MB: As I asked yesterday, when is U.S. Attorney Boxwine going to have Donald Trump arrested for destruction of federal property? I'll bet she could get a D.C. grand jury to give her a true bill on that.
Ah, the Oracle of the North Strikes Again: ~~~
~~~ Ashleigh Fields of the Hill: “Jeanine Pirro, U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, on Sunday said her office would prosecute individuals caught vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after the Trump administration spent millions on renovations.... The U.S. attorney said [on Fox 'News' that] several citations have been issued to individuals who have defaced federal property, while noting the people involved would be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.” ~~~
~~~ Joe DePaolo of Mediaite: “Fox News anchor Peter Doocy asked Jeanine Pirro — U.S. attorney for Washington D.C. — whether ABC’s Jonathan Karl is 'in trouble' over a video he posted in which he lifted a detached piece of paint from the surface of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. And Pirro did not dismiss the possibility. In an interview on The Sunday Briefing, Doocy quoted a Truth Social post from ... Donald Trump — in which the commander-in-chief suggested Karl vandalized the pool. 'President Trump’s got a crime stoppers tip for you,' Doocy told Pirro. 'He says, “lightweight ABC reporter Jonathan Karl was seen sticking his hand into the pool and trying to rip the rubber off the surface.” Judge, is Jonathan Karl from ABC in trouble?' And though the question seemed to be asked in jest, Pirro clearly left the door open. 'Well, you know, it depends,' she said. “Anyone who is in a position of vandalizing — or attempting to vandalize — the reflecting pool will face the criminal justice system in D.C....'” ~~~
~~~ Marie: Yes, my prediction (made yesterday), was "in jest," too. But you made it come true, Madame Boxwine, and I am grateful. Pour yourself another one, Dear; it won't make you any more ridiculous.
Everything Trump Does Is Corrupt. Kenneth Vogel, et al., of the New York Times: Donald “Trump’s political appointees quashed an early-stage criminal investigation into the circumstances surrounding his clemency grant to a convicted fraudster.... The investigation ... had begun examining whether improper payments were made to help facilitate the commutation awarded to David Gentile, a private equity executive who was convicted in a $1.6 billion scheme that defrauded thousands of mostly mom-and-pop investors, some of whom lost their retirement savings. The clemency grant freed Mr. Gentile last November less than two weeks into a seven-year prison sentence, and wiped away the possibility of forfeiting more than $15.5 million to the government. Within a few months, federal prosecutors in Brooklyn, where Mr. Gentile’s conviction had been secured, opened an investigation into how the commutation came about.... One of the people who came under scrutiny ... is friends with Mr. Trump. By May, the investigation had come to an abrupt halt after The Times inquired about the matter.... The suppression of the investigation into Mr. Gentile’s commutation is another example of the Trump administration’s politicization of the Justice Department.”
Karla Adam of the Washington Post: “... Donald Trump appeared to scoop Downing Street on Sunday, announcing that Prime Minister Keir Starmer would resign before any public statement from Starmer himself. 'Keir Starmer will resign as Prime Minister of The United Kingdom,' proclaimed in a social media post, in which he also asserted that Starmer had 'failed badly' on immigration and energy policy.... Trump’s intervention represented an extraordinary foray into British domestic politics that left some veteran political observers stunned. 'There is literally no boundary this American president will not bulldoze through,' ITV’s Robert Peston wrote on X.... Relations between Starmer and Trump have been rocky for months.” Related reports at the bottom of the page.
Zachary Leeman of Mediaite: “CNN’s Jake Tapper and others piled on ... Donald Trump’s Department of Defense over a 'NO MERCY' post on X that was hit with a brutal community note from the platform. In a post this week, Trump’s Department of Defense ... put out a tweet with an image of a U.S. soldier and the message: 'GIVE THE ENEMY NIGHTMARES.... NO HESITATION. NO MERCY. OVERWHELMING LETHALITY,' the post read.... The ... tweet was hit with a stinging community note from X that read: 'They gave the enemy $300 billion instead.'” (Also linked yesterday.)
Paul Krugman on the ways Trump, Hegseth & MAGA are undermining the military. He cites "three axes of military degradation: Ideology, bigotry and corruption/cronyism."
We don't have to live this way. Thanks to RAS for the link. See also Plato, linked below. (Also linked yesterday.)
Unsafe at Any Speed: The Killing Machines Americans Buy. Michael Keller, et al., of the New York Times: “For decades, American roads were steadily getting safer for pedestrians. But around 2009, the trend reversed. Since then, the number of pedestrians killed each year has risen by about 75 percent.... Most other wealthy countries haven’t seen similar increases.... After analyzing federal and industry records, including never-before-examined data on vehicle dimensions, we found that the rise of large pickups and S.U.V.s is an important factor. Our estimate is that about 200 to 400 pedestrians a year would not have died if vehicles had remained approximately the same size over the past quarter-century. That represents about 10 percent of the recent increase in pedestrian deaths. There are two reasons bigger vehicles are deadlier: They have taller hoods. And they tend to have larger blind zones.... The hood of an average passenger vehicle today is about three feet high. Anyone shorter than 5-foot-6 — about half of American adults — would frequently be rammed to the pavement. So would most children.... Not only are the high hoods on larger vehicles more lethal, but their bulkier frames can also block drivers’ views of pedestrians.” Update: the link has been changed to one that appears to be a gift link.
Richard Stevenson of the New York Times: “Alan Greenspan, who in nearly two decades as chairman of the Federal Reserve nurtured a long run of prosperity, navigated crises and was a powerful and polarizing force in shaping market-friendly policies, died on Monday. He was 100. His death was announced by his wife, Andrea Mitchell, the chief Washington correspondent for NBC News, which reported her statement.... A full obituary will follow.”
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California. Shawn Hubler & Dana Goldstein of the New York Times: “The superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District resigned on Sunday, months after the F.B.I. raided his home and office in February in connection with a criminal inquiry into the district’s dealings with an A.I. start-up. The superintendent, Alberto Carvalho, was a well-known education leader who was hired in 2021 to lead the nation’s second-largest school district. He had been on paid leave since Feb. 27, when the board of education suggested he step back to quell mounting turmoil over the investigation.” At 2:45 am ET, this was a developing story.
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Colombia. Annie Correal of the New York Times: “Abelardo De La Espriella, a criminal defense lawyer with no previous political experience, appeared headed for a razor-thin victory on Sunday in Colombia’s presidential election, in a potential win for ... the global right and ... [Donald] Trump, who had endorsed him. Mr. De La Espriella — who transformed himself from sharply dressed Miami lawyer to populist in a soccer jersey and a straw hat — won 49.7 percent of the vote with more than 99 percent of the votes counted, according to preliminary official results. Iván Cepeda, a leftist senator and a longtime human rights advocate, received 48.7 percent. His victory would return Colombia to conservative rule after four years under Gustavo Petro, the country’s first leftist president. It would also advance Latin America’s broader shift to the right in Mr. Trump’s second term.” The Guardian's story, which describes De La Espriella as a “Trump-admiring far-right millionaire lawyer” is here.
U.K. Starmer Resigns. Jill Lawless of the AP: “British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Monday he is stepping down as leader of the governing Labour Party and will leave office within weeks, scarcely two years after being elected in a landslide. Starmer says he will remain caretaker prime minister until a new Labour leader is chosen by the party. Starmer made the announcement after facing growing pressure to hand over to a new leader who can try and revive the government’s flagging fortunes.” ~~~
~~~ The New York Times is liveblogging developments. The Guardian's liveblog is here.
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"Aamer Madhani, et al., of the AP: 'Senior negotiators from the U.S. and Iran' ".
More sanewashing. The US did not send senior negotiators. We sent two real estate hucksters and make-up artist JD Vance. Real diplomats and negotiators have been fired left and right.
Making Britain Great Again? A history lesson.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/22/opinion/brexit-britain-europe-power.html
@NiskyGuy: Right you are. Witless & Jarhead are not even government employees. They're just doing this "negotiating" as a side hustle to their day jobs as real estate developers. (Iran does have some lovely beachfront property; for fun, residents can shoot missiles from the balconies of their beachfront condos at slow-moving tankers navigating the Persian Gulf.)
Algae control liquids are about fifty dollars a gallon.
Seems like some of Tr*mp's rich friends could chip in a few billion dollars
to get our reflecting pool in shape, except for the peeling paint.
They should have used waterproof paint maybe.
“It’s swampier than ever.”
Look how easy it is to win when it's not real.
"Polymarket paid mostly college-age creators to stage fake winning bets on copycat versions of its website. A Wall Street Journal investigation found none of the roughly $1.9 million in bets shown across 1,105 videos were real.
The Journal reportedly reviewed 1,105 videos from 10 promoted creators between December and mid-May. Around 70% showed a bet, and none were genuine.
Many clips were filmed on dummy sites such as poiymarket.com, built to mirror the real platform. Across 118 videos, creators celebrated roughly $900,000 in fabricated wins. The same bets would have lost more than $166,000. Creators earned about $2,000 to $3,000 a month and were told not to disclose the payments."
Washington Post - Jon Swaine
"Tulsi Gabbard, her guru and the mysterious messages that helped shape her political career
I obtained hundreds of confidential memos detailing politics and policy guidance for Gabbard from her years in Congress, then embarked on a quest to identify who was behind them."
Conspiracy Brain Never Turns Off
"Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sparked mockery on Friday after he uncorked what some analysts described as an “absolutely insane” claim about what Kennedy referred to as the “most consequential crime” in American history.
On Thursday, former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard posted a video on her professional X account that claimed to expose evidence that Anthony Fauci, the former chief medical advisor to the President, had committed crimes during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Kennedy retweeted the video and thanked Gabbard for “documenting Dr. Fauci’s central role in causing the COVID-19 pandemic — among the most consequential crimes in human history.”"
For a break from t****y news, Helen Lewis (and with photographs and videos by Will Matsudafor), for The Atlantic, describe What Darwin saw in the Galápagos
"The Galápagos Islands owe their place on rich travelers’ bucket lists to the vision of them as an unfallen Eden, touted as “the laboratory of evolution” that inspired Charles Darwin to write On the Origin of Species. When he visited, humans’ presence here was limited to whalers, buccaneers, and political prisoners. Today, more than 300,000 people visit the archipelago each year. Every tourist desperate to see an untouched paradise is part of a constant influx that risks despoiling the very thing they came to see."
ALGaeBTQ Pride Month
As Marie correctly points out, success in business (or almost anything else, for that matter—plumbing, for instance) does not translate into political success. A lesson we should have learned when we had that nepotistic oaf Dubya running things. The “CEO president” was an historic disaster, likewise Fat Hitler. But then again, neither of these dangerous clowns were actually business geniuses. Both had their businesses handed to them and both were (are) cheating grifters. Bush ran his oil company into the ground and ran off with his money before investors found out. Fatty augured in with multiple businesses including four bankruptcies. Not exactly Andrew Carnegies. Both learned that fucking up never required you to suffer any consequences. Someone will always bail you out. So what they did was transfer sleazy and illegal business practices to their approach to politics. With expected results.
That NYT story on the SCOTUS decision re the murderer of Eton Patz is VERY misleading. The quote excerpted from the excerpt copied above is:
" ... The three liberal justices — Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson — noted their objection to the majority’s order.”
This gives the impression that "the liberals" wanted to give "the killer" another trial. In fact, those three objected to the SCOTUS even taking the question -- their objection was that SCOTUS should not have granted certiorari and should not have reviewed the case again. Whereas the other justices granted certiorari, reviewed the issues, and denied the petitioner, remanding the petition back to the lower court. In doing so, they got a chance to reaffirm the primacy of federal law and the ability of state laws to elide the req
... requirement to Mirandize persons who are being questioned as suspects, not yet charged or formally detained. They didn't NEED to do that, but appear intent on whittling down the protections of Miranda.
(I don't know why the earlier part of this got published, my thumb must have touched the blue button.)
Here is the kind of harassment that people are now getting for checking out the damage to the reflecting pool.
Finally the real reason for the administration's desire to annex Greenland
"Tom Dans was appointed by Trump as the chair of the United States Arctic Research Commission in December. When I met him for lunch in Washington, earlier this year, he declined to speak further on the record, except to articulate a narrow, symbiotic vision for the future: “My view is that the United States could take all the seafood Greenland could produce, and cut out the middleman, and keep it from China—and you could bring back all-you-can-eat shrimp at Red Lobster.”"
Supremes once again encourage disenfranchising the People
"By declining to take up a lower court ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court has dealt another blow to the Voting Rights Act. The court announced Monday that it will not review an Arkansas-based lawsuit, leaving in place a 2025 appeals panel ruling that ends a long-used tool for protecting minority voters from discrimination under the landmark law in seven mainly Midwestern states.
That ruling found that in the states covered by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals — Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota — private individuals and groups do not have the right to sue to enforce what’s known as Section 208 of the Voting Rights Act, which generally allows voters with a disability or inability to read or write to get help with voting from a person of their choice."
@Patrick: Yeah, I should have read further thru the NYT story. I linked it while I was on the phone with Xfinity, so I didn't get any further than the first couple of grafs. Thanks for clarifying.
The phone call with Xfinity reminds me that I am running for president, and I'm pretty sure I'm a shoo-in. My platform is simple and a sure winner. It was inspired by my recent "communications" with the Xfinity & with Bank of America auto attendants.
Here it is: "When I am president, I will outlaw phone robots. Never again will you have to talk to a machine. Never again will a machine tell you they cannot help you. Never again will a machine hang up on you."
That's it. That's my whole agenda. I alone can fix it. I told you I was a stable genius. With one fell swoop, I will make American great again. Cue Souza march.
Wendy,
Haven’t been able to see that Atlantic article, but your reference to the Galapagos reminded me of an excellent book I read years ago, “The Beak of Finches”, which followed the work of British biologists Peter and Rosemary Grant, who tracked the comings, goings, and evolvings of Darwin’s finches on those islands.
Darwin’s observations of the varieties of finch beaks were an immense propellant to his theory of evolution. Darwin, however, believed that evolutionary changes occurred only over long periods of time. The Grants saw it almost in real time as certain finches physically adapted to a drought on those islands in the late 70’s in just two years.
The fact that so many tourists are flocking to the Galapagos seems to be an indication that another kind of evolution is in progress, a move away from the staunch right wing assault on Darwin’s theory.
Evolution occurs politically as well. Or maybe that should be devolution. We’ve seen about 35% of the American voting population move away from a fact based understanding of the world to one based on hatred, fear, paranoia, and greed in twenty years or so.
Evolution requires specific conditions in order for change to occur. The conditions needed for voters to evolve from mediaeval morons to beings who see the world without MAGA glasses could take time. Thanks to much of the media, the Swine Court, the Party of Traitors, AI slop, and online continents of ignorance and hatred, such conditions may require years to come together.
It’s sad to think that little finches are more adaptable than MAGAts.
Marie: That Sousa march should be The Thunderer", always popular at presidential reviews.
I expect that we will soon see the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool given the same treatment Fatty's other huge public embarrassment has received. Rather than suffer the humiliation of giving the public a chance to point and laugh at the scarred surface of the Kennedy Center, debased for a short time by the illegal addition of the Orange Monster's name, little donnie has decreed that tarps shall serve as a cover up. Perhaps he'd be better off surrounding the entire pool with miles of tarps to hide the algae bloom and peeling paint that offer proof positive of his incompetence and corruption. Better yet, maybe he should waddle around shielded by shrouding tarps. I wouldn't mind never having to see that gruesome grimace anymore.
Illegal Boss
"The large-scale cuts that President Donald Trump’s acting director of national intelligence had been considering imposing at his own office started on Monday, a source familiar with the matter told CNN. “The deep state firings have begun,” the source said, declining to give details on how many jobs had been cut.
Sources had previously told CNN that Bill Pulte, Trump’s pick to serve as director of national intelligence in an acting capacity, was looking at cutting hundreds of jobs at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)."
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