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The more the dialogue slips away from him and turns against him, the more outrageous the Trump behaviours will become. In his pea-sized brain, the problem is not that he is doing or saying anything wrong, its that the people around him are not following the nonexistent game plan.

THE WHOLE FAMILY IS LINING UP AT THE TROUGH: Eric Trump's wife and Don Jr.'s girlfriend are on Brad Parscale's payroll — at $15K a month Trump's campaign manager, Brad Parscale, is paying Lara Trump and Kimberly Guilfoyle in murky "adviser" roles ROGER SOLLENBERGER APRIL 24, 2020 4:00PM (UTC) President Trump's campaign manager, Brad Parscale, has been paying $15,000 a month — the equivalent of the top White House salary — to Lara Trump and Kimberly Guilfoyle, the wife and girlfriend of Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., respectively, for campaign work. The payments, the existence of which was revealed in March by the New York Times, reportedly came through one of Parscale's private companies, Parscale Strategy. https://www.salon.com/2020/04/24/eric-trumps-wife-and-don-jrs-girlfriend-are-on-brad-parscales-payroll--at-15k-a-month/

There are many, doctors or not, whose egos are more important to hold "important" jobs than integrity. Trump has found enough of them to support or at least not contradict him to salve his ego. Flies that are willing to eat manure are always to drawn to it, and there is a BIIIG steaming pile of it there.

But California is too far away.

O’Reilly calls Hannity “the most powerful guy in the country” because Trump does what he says on TV "I don't know of anybody more powerful at this point in history than you are," O'Reilly tells Hannity

The absolutely best pizza has to be Santa Lucia. Spoiler alert: it will ruin all other pizzas for you. Forever.

Trump’s Foot Soldiers Tried to Flood the Country With Millions of Doses of Hydroxychloroquine https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-trumps-foot-soldiers-tried-to-flood-the-us-with-millions-of-doses-of-hydroxychloroquine

Trump Owes Tens of Millions of Dollars to State-Owned Bank of China From Real-Estate Deal, Says Report https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-owes-tens-of-millions-of-dollars-to-state-owned-bank-of-china-from-real-estate-deal-says-report?ref=home

This has been the focus of attention on CNN and other news outlets, and rightfully so. The medical community is aghast at the prospect of people putting disinfectant into their bodies through injection or ingestion, and Lysol was so alarmed that they have put out a news release strongly advising against this, probably to avoid lawsuits. And doubtless Trump will come up with even more bizarre ideas. It would be comical if not so tragic, and more people will die as a result.

TRUMP HAS FOUND THE CURE FOR THE CORONAVIRUS!! “So supposing we hit the body with a tremendous — whether it’s ultraviolet or just a very powerful light,” Trump said. "And then I said supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or some other way and I think you said you’re going to test that too." Case closed! https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-idiot-alchemist-says-sun-bleach-will-save-us?ref=home

I would think that there are principled prosecutors and judges that are itching to have Trump or his assets in their courts.

Big banks pocketed $10 billion in fees from small business rescue program: report Funds quickly dried up as dozens of publicly-traded companies with cash reserves received more than $300 million APRIL 23, 2020 8:59PM (UTC) Banks that distributed government-backed small business relief loans made more than $10 billion in fees before the program ran out of money and left thousands of small firms without aid, according to an analysis by NPR. https://www.salon.com/2020/04/23/big-banks-pocketed-10-billion-in-fees-from-small-business-rescue-program-report/

The biggest black cloud hanging over Trump's head is his incestuous relationship with Deutsche Bank. There have been several huge loans based on misrepresented value of his properties, which, if true, are fraud on a massive scale. His status as president gives him some degree of immunity, but that will evaporate as soon as he is out of the office. Once charges are filed, you can count on an avalanche of civil suits as other creditors scramble to try to secure their liens. That will be the end of Trump.

On a slightly different note , yesterday we ordered Chinese from a nearby restaurant and it arrived in a surprisingly short period of time. I walked out to the delivery car and when I got close, the driver's face tightened up and he shouted," Isolate, isolate!". To calm him down, I told him that I had ordered just 15 minutes ago.

Elizabeth Warren's Brother Dies Of Coronavirus: Donald Reed Herring, an Air Force veteran and the oldest brother of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), died in Oklahoma on Tuesday night after suffering complications from the novel coronavirus at age 86, the former presidential candidate confirmed. “I’m grateful to the nurses and other front-line staff who took care of my brother, but it is hard to know that there was no family to hold his hand or to say ‘I love you’ one more time. And now there’s no funeral for those of us who loved him to hold each other close,” Warren told the Boston Globe. “I will miss my brother.” Herring, who was a cancer survivor, attended the University of Oklahoma and subsequently joined the Air Force, serving for 20 years. He was awarded with several Army decorations and later retired as a lieutenant colonel in 1973. https://www.thedailybeast.com/elizabeth-warrens-oldest-brother-dies-of-coronavirus-in-oklahoma

Not sure if "double jeopardy" applies to impeachment, but it probably does by convention. God knows, Trump has done enough illegal and other crap to warrant another trial, but if the GOP is in enough trouble at the polls, they might try to save themselves by presenting articles of impeachment themselves.

As predicted, Faux News is going after Biden with smears Fox News report linking Biden to bin Laden drops hours after Trump comes up short in network’s poll The news was first published by The Washington Post in 2012. Fox News didn't explain why it resurfaced it in 2020 Hours after a Fox News poll showed Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden leading President Donald Trump, the network published a story smearing the former vice president as Osama bin Laden's choice for president. https://www.salon.com/2020/04/23/fox-news-report-linking-biden-to-bin-laden-drops-hours-after-trump-comes-up-short-in-networks-poll_partner/

Sooooo....you're saying that he fits perfectly into Trump's cabinet and party?

And in Scotland, a Rolling Stones tribute band, the Stoned Rollers, have released a single, "Hey McLeod, Get Offa My Ewe".

Trump's Geniusity Strikes Again! The head of the Department of Health and Human Services tapped a 37-year-old former dog breeder with no public health experience to lead the government’s “day-to-day” response to the coronavirus to disastrous effect, Reuters reports. HHS Secretary Alex Azar chose Brian Harrison, who from 2012 to 2018 ran a company called Dallas Labradoodles that sold mixed dog breeds, to be his chief of staff in 2019 and later promoted him to coordinate the nation’s coronavirus task force. https://www.thedailybeast.com/alex-azar-hhs-secretary-tapped-former-dog-breeder-to-lead-early-government-coronavirus-task-force-report?ref=home

This sickens me. About 30 years ago, my secretary told me that she had held a similar position at Nygard but left when it became apparent that Nygard was determined to screw anything and everything remotely female. It was different world then, alas. My late wife was a nurse who was sexually assaulted at HSC about that time but the perpetrator was pulled off her, but no charges were ever laid. Ugh.