The Best

There are assuredly clowns to the left of him and certainly jokers to the right, so Donald J. Trump is now stuck in the middle with -- oh my goodness gracious me! – Rudy Giuliani, which is like being stuck in the desert with an hourglass.

Rudy is like the guy who stands to the right of the black preacher and amens and backs him up with cool comments, except Rudy’s comments are all pretty crazy and contradictory, which makes him the perfect television lawyer for Trump. I like it the way these guys now have so-called “television lawyers” who are mainly PR guys with law degrees, like this Lanny Davis for Michael Cohen.

Michael Cohen? Didn’t he once have something to do with the president at one time back in ancient history a couple months ago? Oh, yeah, he was the president’s lawyer then, according to both his business cards and Trump himself.

Michael Cohen wasn’t one of the “best” people Trump promised to hire; he was so “pre-best” that Trump decided to leave him in New York, and that was a mistake with a guy who said he’d take a bullet for you. Loyalty can be toxic if it sours. 

Funny thing about a lot of those “best” people: they’re convicted felons who are cooperating with Robert Mueller. And Michael Cohen has now joined them. I guess he’s a “best” person now.

Not that Trump or Rudy have noticed. Trump said he was sort of a part-time lawyer who did some small change work for him and wasn’t even a very good lawyer, certainly not the best because Trump had hired him before the “best” era. Giuliani went from praising Cohen a few months ago to full mad dog, calling him a “pathological liar.” Takes one to know one, I guess.

Now Paul Manafort, on the other hand, seems to still be a “best” person to Trump because he didn’t roll over – yet? – even though he is now a convicted felon facing the rest of his sleazy life in jail. Trump is still praising him and being coy about a possible pardon, while Manafort’s lawyer said he’s doing the old “considering his options.”

If the option he chooses is to cooperate with Mueller, the tom-toms you hear of impeachment are going to become kettle drums. 

Re impeachment: Trump says it would implode the stock market, a not-so-subtle reminder to his fellow one-percenters to keep the hounds at bay until he staggers to the finish line. 

He also said he shouldn’t be impeached because he’s doing such a great job, giving himself a modest A+ as prez. 

Language says a lot, to be oxymoronic. How about this: United States President Donald J. Trump called John Dean a “rat” for testifying against Richard Nixon and basically bringing down his shambles of a presidency.

In calling Dean a rat, Trump was, first, using the language of a gangster, and, second, showing that his deepest sentiments were with Richard Nixon. 

Nixon said he was not a crook. Trump says there is no collusion.

Look what happened to Nixon.