Day 1123 A Stunning Turn of Events (NOT)

Day 1123 A Stunning Turn of Events (NOT)

Friday October 25, 2019

376 Days until the 2020 election and 458 days until the Inauguration

A Stunning Turn of Events (NOT)

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Who Does Rudy Work For?

As this presidency goes from silly and stupid to gross and incompetent to mean and brutal to all of this, facts keep emerging, which in hindsight are like the bug hitting the proverbial windshield. This brings a stunning “Oh yeah, I should have seen that coming” reaction in me to a “what did you expect?” sense as well.

There is nothing that has happened with Trump that could not have been foreseen, or was. The only real surprise is how bad it is. It’s hard to comprehend if you are a person of any sort of moral character that there is a person this (fill in the blank).

Okay, back to the question raised (Who does Rudy Giuliani work for?) and what is the evidence to support what I say? 

And there is the larger picture of “What does it all mean Mr. Natural?”*

*Mr. Natural would say, “It don’t mean shit.” but I beg to differ, as you will see.

Let’s look at some things we know. These things are called facts:

– Rudy Giuliani has been photographed for years with one of the two real-life Home Alone guys. The one named Lev. Lev has a company named Fraud Guarantee. Fraud Guarantee has paid Rudy Giuliani over $500,000. Lev has little visible means of support. Lev has been linked to the Russian mob. Lev has a restraining order against him for threatening to do bodily harm to his landlord in Florida. Lev owns three handguns, one of which he put to the head of his landlord for which he received a restraining order. Lev has been photographed not only with Rudy, but with Donald, and Don Jr. Lev has been linked to Dimitri Firtash. Dimitri Firtash has been linked to a corrupt scheme to siphon millions, no billions, of dollars from the gas coming from Russia through the Ukraine. He is also linked to Putin and to the boss of bosses of the Russian mob Semion Mogilevich. Firtash readily admits to the help of Mogilevich. Mogilevich is on (or was on) the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list.

Conclusion: Rudy is being paid by Putin and the Russian mob.

Conclusion 2: There has been corruption in the Ukraine around Ukrainian gas companies. It has been the work of Putin, Firtasch, and Mogilevich.

– Rudy and Trump say Rudy is Trump’s personal lawyer.

– Rudy is not being paid by Trump.

Question: Aren’t you working for the person who pays you, not the person who isn’t?

Lev has been indicted. Lev went to court the other day. (Where did he get that blond to hang off his arm?)

He pleaded not guilty and – GET THIS – says that he is part of Trump’s legal defense team and therefore some things will be off limits due to executive privilege.

In other court action, the stuff about the accounting firm having to turn over its tax records on Trump the defense attorney asserted that a sitting president can not be arrested, investigated, or stopped from committing a crime while in office.

The Attorney General, William Barr, has been personally investigating an alleged and debunked criminal conspiracy. He has started a formal investigation. It has to do with Russian interference in the 2016 election. The allegation is that it wasn’t Russian but Ukraine that meddled. That it was Joe Biden and his son Hunter and that the Democratic party had a server in Ukraine with Hillary’s missing emails on it. Who is behind all this? Why Paul Mannafort, the Russian disinformation machine, and the far right.

Meanwhile thirty Republican politicians walked into a secure facility where the investigation by the House Intelligence Committee is being conducted. They brought their cell phones, a big no-no. I thought there was a crime committed, but maybe it’s only a violation of ethics. (But I’m sure they will argue that it is no violation of ethics if they themselves have none.)

The Trump and Republican argument is that the impeachment stuff is being held in secret and should be out in the open. Aside from contradicting fact, logic and history what can I say? Well, let’s remind those folks the reasons why this is being done behind closed doors – IT’S AN INVESTIGATION.

They like to site Nixon and Clinton. Let’s remind these folks that in both of those impeachment proceedings there was a law on the books, since repealed that called for a special prosecutor. The special prosecutor had an INVESTIGATION IN SECRET, after which public hearings were held.

In this case, THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT HAS REFUSED TO INVESTIGATE, and therefore, CONGRESS HAS BEEN FORCED TO HOLD AN INVESTIGATION.

INVESTIGATIONS ARE DONE IN SECRET.

The targets of an investigation don’t get to see the evidence while it is being collected. This is a not hard to understand. An investigator doesn’t want to reveal what they are doing for fear of tipping their hand. Besides, if any person is investigated (like say Hillary Clinton) and they are found to have done nothing wrong then you don’t want to let everyone know you are investigating them and have their reputation besmirched.

Okay so let’s review. Rudy is being paid by the Russian mob. Therefore, Rudy works for the Russian mob, not as is alleged the president. 

It has also been shown by many that Trump himself has been paid by the Russian mob, by oligarchs directly connected to Putin, and in fact as was pointed out last week by the Speaker of the House – when it comes to Trump, all roads lead to Putin.

The only question there, is, “How much more damage can this man do to our country before he is removed from office?” 

Also, there is, or was, corruption in the Ukraine around their gas companies, but that corruption is being promoted, fostered, and protected by the Russians in league with Trump and his associates.

Oh yes, and in a fascinating sidelight, some of Trump’s attorneys have said, on several occasions and unprompted, that the country can function quite well without a Vice-President.

Hum. Are they getting ready to throw Mikey under the bus? I say no. I picture two of them holding Mike by his arms and legs while standing on the front of a steam roller with Trump in a chair atop a slow moving steamroller, saying, “And a one, and a two …” (Lawrence Welk** style.)

** Look him up.

Meanwhile:

– We aren’t pulling troops out of the Middle East. Actually, we are putting more in. We just moved them out of the way so Turkey and Russia could carve up the Kurdish area and create another humanitarian crisis. Those U.S. troops that pulled back are being pelted with rocks and eggs. They have moved into Iraq. The Iraqi foreign minister says they have thirty days to get out, and we have put another 2,000 troops in the country that murdered a Washington Post journalist and regularly carries out hangings, decapitations, and crucifixions.

376 Days until the 2020 election and 458 days until the Inauguration

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