Barry Blitt’s “The Shining”: The New Yorker cover for the June 3, 2019, issue, by Barry Blitt, portrays three men who have been enormously helpful to President Trump: Lindsey Graham, William Barr, and Mitch McConnell. “Assembling an image with the President’s enablers presented a problem: Who to include, who to leave out?” Blitt said. “I … Read more
On Thursday Donald Trump crossed the Rubicon — the event in 49 B.C. that precipitated the Roman Civil War, which ultimately led to Caesar becoming dictator for life and the rise of the imperial era of Rome — when he gave his incredibly corrupt Attorney General William P. Barr sweeping new authorities to conduct a … Read more
A confidential Internal Revenue Service legal memo says tax returns must be given to Congress unless the president takes the rare step of asserting executive privilege, according to a copy of the memo obtained by The Washington Post. Confidential draft IRS memo says tax returns must be given to Congress unless president invokes executive privilege: … Read more
President Trump on Monday directed his former White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II – now a private citizen – to defy a congressional subpoena and skip a hearing scheduled for Tuesday, denying House Democrats testimony from the most important eyewitnesses to Mr. Trump’s attempts to obstruct justice in the Russia investigation. Trump Instructs McGahn … Read more
The Arizona Republic this week reported that Sen. Kyrsten Sinema to meet with Attorney General William Barr, but won’t say why or when. My first thought was good, maybe the two of them could sit down and actually read the Mueller Report together, since neither one of them has publicly attested to having read the … Read more