"My! People come and go so quickly here!"

"My! People come and go so quickly here!"  -- Dorothy Gale, The Wizard of Oz

The Witch Hunt is heating up. Houses are coming down left and right!

So far, 33 witches and three companies have been indicted or have entered guilty pleas. Five criminals directly associated with the Criminal-In-Chief have made deals: George Papadopoulos, former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser; Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign chair; Rick Gates, a former Trump campaign aide and Manafort’s longtime junior business partner; Michael Flynn, Trump’s former national security adviser, and most recently, Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer and fixer for the last decade.

The biggest news this week was Michael Cohen's legal woes. Details came out about the Southern District of New York's charges against Cohen, who pleaded guilty in a plea deal and was sentenced to three years.

Cohen once said that he was so loyal to the President* that he would take a bullet for him. He remained loyal.... until he didn't. I've always been impressed with Mikey CocoPuffs. When FBI agents raided his offices back in April, 2018, he was calm and collected, polite to agents, and highly cooperative. At the time, SCROTUS was supportive, calling the raid, a “disgraceful situation” and an “attack on our country in a true sense.”

TЯUMP fully supported Cohen early on. For example:

....it means lying or making up stories. Sorry, I don’t see Michael doing that despite the horrible Witch Hunt and the dishonest media!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 21, 2018

How times have changed! Here eight months later, the rabid yam called him "a weak person and not a very smart person" and has said that Cohen lied and "should serve a full and complete sentence." Theoretically, Cohen could've gotten 70+ years for all of his charges. He ended up being sentenced this week to three years. Here is his plea deal and his sentence.

And Cohen is still fully cooperating with Mueller. He wants to undo all his wrongs. He seems sincerely remorseful and embarrassed that he put himself in the position. He must've been in a world of hurt, as he has said that going to jail brings him freedom.

The most fun part about Cohen's case was that in his court documents, he is described as the personal attorney of a certain Individual-1. After the first document was released, people speculated about who that Individual could be, until later, in a Mueller sentencing memo, Individual-1 was described as some mysterious person, who at that point "had become the President of the United States." Hmmmm.... who oh who could that be??

(Side note: Does anybody else revel in the fact that our courts are open and public, and we can all see the documents free and easily? I ♥ the rule of law!)

In any case, the Non-Reader-In-Chief missed ("I didn't read it") the part in the document  about Individual-1's role as basically a unindicted co-conpirator, and in true Cheeto Head fashion tweeted:

Totally clears the President. Thank you!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 7, 2018

Twitter had a field day with that one! Read the responses!


As usual, late-night comedians summarized the situation better than anyone:





In addition to Cohen's admissions, the other big player in the payoff of mistresses, SCROTUS friend and conspirator, National Enquirer publisher David Pecker, is also cooperating.

Obviously, Trump is in serious legal trouble. The question now is, what will happen if he is found to have committed indictable offenses? There are a couple possible paths. As of now, the Justice Department has asserted that a sitting president can not be criminally indicted, but our rule of law is clear that no one is above the law. Plenty of talking heads are speculating about his being indicted after he leaves office, but if he were to win re-election and stayed unindicted, the statute of limitations would run out on the campaign finance crimes. This article from The Economist outlines the possibilities pretty well.

But some say this is just this is just small election-campaign-violation potatoes. Some, like dear old pal Rudy, have said that it's not such a big crime, since "nobody got killed." Ugh. Is it Take A Pistol to Fifth Avenue Day already? ...I think it's just the beginning. If it's truly small potatoes, I'm convinced there's big ol' meaty ones yet to be unearthed.

The fact that we are even talking about the President* being an unindicted conspirator and likely facing charges at some point is astounding. The last two years have battered us so much that we are becoming numb to Trump's outrageousness, but this really reaches a new level of outrageousness. This man must resign or be impeached. We mustn't allow him to continue!

Other recent events:

Maria Butina pleaded guilty to conspiring to act as a foreign agent for Russia, and although her activities started before the 2016 election mess, it's an interesting case. She is also cooperating with the investigators and may be another thorn in Trump's side in the Mueller investigation.

Trump met publicly with the Democratic Leadership with cameras rolling in the Oval Office, had a tantrum, and got PWNED by Plsi! Just watch:

I made a meme!

The revolving door of staff continues to turn, with the most troubling casualty being Chief of Staff John Kelly. Since Trump's announcement of Kelly's departure, it is evident that SCROTUS can't  buy a new chief of staff. His first pick, Nick Ayers, who had been announced as a given for the post, turned down the job. Several others publicly took their names out of the hat as well, including former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA), former NJ Governor and Trump lackey Chris Christie, Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), and Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin. Right now, speculation is that Jared Kuschner will take the job. Hey, why not.

Not sure he'd be much more effective than the ficus, though.

In the meantime, Trump has named Mick Mulvaney, who once called Trump a "terrible human being," as "acting Chief of Staff."

Ryan Zinke has also announced his resignation as Secretary of the Interior, as he faces several federal investigations.

Betsy DeVos was ordered by a federal judge to cancel student loans to the tune of $150M. Le's hear it again for checks and balances!!


All of that has happened just in the last week or so.

And of course, his legal woes do not begin and end with the Mueller investigation into possible meddling in the 2016 election. He has legal problems surrounding everything he touches: his campaign funding, his inaugural committee funds, his "charities," some emoluments lawsuits, the New York State investigations into his businesses and his taxes, and problems with the Trump Foundation.

In the face of all that fan-flung shit, SCROTUS is becoming yet more isolated, reporting to the Oval Office at noon or later, according to reports, and preparing to trek to Florida to lick his wounds.

In less than a month, Trump loses his all-Republican Congress when the Democrats take over the House. Not only will he have an even harder time pushing through his mostly-failed agenda, he faces real prospects of more of his cronies being subpoenaed as well as impeachment proceedings initiated.

Whew that's a lot for the last couple weeks!

Yes, it's overwhelming, and we're getting tired. Let's rest among the poppies for a couple weeks, but come January we must push on. Can't wait to see what's next!

We will Resist! We will persist!