LETS MAKE A DEAL

Today Paul Manafort was released from a minimum-security prison where he was serving a sentence that would have him out in 2024.  His early release was accredited to his age and vulnerability to the virus.  This bogus rationale does not hold up when you consider there are no currently reported cases in the prison.  Federal guidelines used for home confinment of non-violent federal offences during the pandemic incudes only those who completed ½ of their sentence or were within 18 months completion.  He met neither of these guidelines.  Paul Manafort is this another Barr favor for Trump. 

Is this a twofer. The second favor is the dismantling of another Muller conviction, so he can eventually claim the investigation was a hoax?  This is yet another blatant thumb on the scales of Justice by Barr. 

Again, this pardon in effect does one other favor to Trump. It keeps Manafort’s 5^th amendment rights in tact.  If pardoned, he could not claim the right because of double jeopardy.

This is another Trump “look over here” laser show to draw your attention to all the bad news, and body slams by Romney, and Fauci in Tuesday the 12^th May, 2020 Senate hearing. 

Trump can attempt to destroy democracy, but it does not erase the fact he is an impeached and deeply flawed president with contempt for the rule of law and justice.  These are the type of actions Putin loves, ones that divide.  His propensity to divide abounds in his rhetoric by lying, contradicting medical professionals and sewing daily divisions by spewing conspiracy theories and encouraging premature opening of the economy.  Trump is putting politics over science to the detriment of everyone.

FLYNN UPDATE

The judge in the Michael Flynn case was less than amused by the justice department filing for a dismissal.  The judge may make it a show, and call the prosecutors to answer Manafort.  The judge called for an outside review and assigned another judge to determine if Flynn committed perjury.

FAUCI UPDATE

As I predicted, Trump responded to Fauci with one of two moves-  either deflect or project, when he is found out.  Trump said Fauci had “unacceptable answers” in response to Senators questions saying (this is where the “tells” come in watch the projection) “Fauci is pursuing both sides”.  Fauci is only presenting the White House guidelines, whereas Trump has a duality of purpose, in that he is both political and railing against his offices own guidelines. 

This was all about Fauci’s warning, on re-opening prematurely.  It’s fortunate that only 36% believe in what Trump says about the pandemic.  His hunches and magic wishes are countered by Fauci, when Trump says “it’s not coming back in the fall”, and that “it will go away without a vaccine”.  Wishes and magic Trump science and medicine in the Trump administration. 

MASA

It’s too bad that MASA has such a negative connotation.  It would be an ideal Biden mantra.  It could stand for Make America Safe Again MASA.

UPDATES

            Whistle blower Dr. Rick Bright said, in testimony to the Senate, “2020 will be the darkest winter in modern history”.

            Senator Richard Burr (R) chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, turned over his cell phone to federal investigators, as a result of 5 to 7 million dollars of questionable stock trades, of stocks that crashed after the information was made public, once he was informed with secure briefs of the economic impact on the economy, by the virus.

There were 3 million new unemployment claims last week and the total is now 36 million. The CDC updated the total deaths through August, at over 140,000.  The Fed Chief Jerome Powell said, “we are in the midst of the biggest shock the economy has felt in modern times”. 

We have a bad illusionist and a clown laser light show host in Donald Trump.  Trump administration insists Obama did not leave a plan for a pandemic. It’s true they did not have a plan, they had a complete playbook, which Trump and his people ignored, then said they had their own plan. If that’s true, it’s not working.

With 18,000 known lies and increasing daily, and the Fog machine, conspiracy theories, and assault on the media, we are all losing our grip on values and realism itself.  The conspiracy theorists are winning due to the fog machine and gaslighting by POTUS.