Nice Try But No Cigar
When I heard that Donald Trump’s new $1500/hr. New York lawyer, Marc Kasowitz, was giving out victory cigars at the Trump International Hotel in Washington DC, claiming that Trump had “won” after the James Comey Senate Committee hearing testimony, I had to pinch myself awake and out of this alternate universe of the Trump presidency.
Won? Won what? This isn’t a pie eating contest, it’s truth or consequences. Big consequences. The Comey hearing wasn’t Trump’s to win, it was Comey’s to lose. And although Comey came off somewhat like a boy scout, he’s more like a fox in boy scout clothing. After all, he was the Director of the FBI.
Kasowitz accused Comey of lying, leaking information ..although whether it was classified or not is in question ..and he now wants Comey investigated. Yeah, right. He said that Comey’s testimony timeline of leaking memos to the New York Times indirectly through a friend about an incriminating private conversation with Trump was not truthful. And while Comey, playing chess, using the leaked memos through-a-friend rouse to spur a special council investigation, Trump and Kasowitz are playing checkers in an pitiful attempt to defend the president.
The evidence stacked up against Trump is not only compelling, but it fits his well established pattern of operation, his signature MO. For Kasowitz to come out and say, boast, publicly with the added ridiculous cigar stunt that Trump had “won” something, I had to think that this was a cheap move from an expensive lawyer. If I were Donald Trump, I’d ask for my money back. Kasowitz only made the President look sleazier and creepier.
Like a cheap cigar.
Thinking back about the past Senate Committee hearings and the troubles of past presidents ..like Richard Nixon and how we were all aggravated with him and his blind arrogance in saying, “When the president does it, that means it is not illegal” ..and the embarrassment and disgust for Bill Clinton and his publicized history of womanizing and the infamous tryst with that now famous White House intern ..Donald Trump brings us to a whole new era and a whole new level of alternate facts and presidential reality.
Although I agreed with much of what Trump ran his campaign on, at the same time realizing that it was mostly rhetoric but sounded good, I thought he just might be the shot in the arm America needed, breaking away from the numbing politics and politicians of Washington DC. Trump wasn’t as much a breath of fresh air as he was a smelling salt for a country that has been dazed, punch drunk, by its own leaders.
I couldn’t find it within my self to vote for this despicable character, but I was willing to get behind his presidency and give him a fair chance. Considering the other candidates, he was the most likely choice for president. So, America jumped off the deep end. Now, we’re drowning and need help.
In retrospect, Hillary’s private email server regarding any breach of national security or Russian hacking, or any illegal collusion with foreign governments would be a class D misdemeanor to Trumps comparatively felonious White House and Trump Tower meetings with Russian diplomats and intelligent officers, and the back channel communications revelations using Russian spy equipment.
Further, the questions and allegations of collusion, investments, money laundering, Russian prostitutes, and other inculpating dealings with Russia all remain to be seen.
We still need to see his tax returns. Trump may be heading, albeit unwittingly, toward treasonous allegations and possibly not just impeachment, but prison.
And toward poetic justice ...“Lock him up!”
This would be another black eye for America, leaving us so vulnerable to world ridicule and distain, that we’d never be able to recover looking at what’s left on the political leadership table, and out of control corporate governance.
Watching Arizona Senator John McCain humiliate himself, literally asleep at the wheel in front of a worldwide television audience, lazily interrogating James Comey was mesmerizing, sadly. This once firebrand American hero with a family heritage of military honor and patriotism, made a complete fool of himself, and America, with his dazed and disjointed, unintelligible and illogical questioning of Comey. Someone needed to put a smelling salt under his nose! Then, the next day, he offered the excuse of having stayed up too late the night before watching baseball on television.
This, the man who brought us Sarah Palin. And we almost elected him president!
Really, it’s us, not them. We just encourage them.
There does seem to be a few senators who had their eye on the ball, like Independent Angus King from Maine and Democrat Kamala Harris of California, and a few others. But as expected, the Republicans rallied around Trump, seemingly halfheartedly, while the Democrats tried to pin him down.
The media called it a fair fight.
We the People were well entertained at the “blockbuster” event, and staying tuned for more.
The Russians are laughing and licking their chops.
Our allies are confused, disoriented, and pissed off.
Senator McCain is headed for the rest home.
Kasowitz is handing out victory cigars.
Trump doesn’t smoke.
America hangs in the balance.
John Kushma is a communication consultant and lives in Logan, Utah.
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