YOUR SUNDAY MOMENT OF ZEN

 

“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.” ― Gautama Buddha, Sayings of Buddha

SATURDAY NIGHT DANCING

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The Commander-in-Chief

 

Attorney General Todd Blanche, Trump's Personal Lawyer.

 

Todd Blanche is now the Attorney General of the United States. He was Trump's personal defense lawyer who defended Trump in multiple criminal indictments, including the New York "hush money" trial, and he acted as his trusted personal counsel through various state and federal legal challenges.

It is highly unusual in modern U.S. history for a president to appoint his personal defense lawyer to serve as Attorney General. While presidents historically appointed close political allies or campaign managers, modern legal norms demand strict institutional separation between the President’s personal legal troubles and the Department of Justice (DOJ).

Blanche's appointment is a blatant conflict of interest. The Attorney General represents the United States and the American people, not the president as an individual. Can Trump's former personal defense lawyer face intense scrutiny over whether he can objectively oversee federal law enforcement, or if he will act as the president's private counsel?

For your information, here is a list of Trump attorneys who at one time worked for him and what happened to them as a result. Blanche is NOT in good company:

* Roy Cohn — Disbarred; dead

* Michael Cohen — Disbarred; pleaded guilty to tax, campaign and false-statement crimes

* Rudy Giuliani — Disbarred in NY and DC; $148M in defamation damages

* Alina Habba — Sanctioned $1M for frivolous litigation. 

* Boris Epshteyn — Pending AZ criminal charges  in fake-elector case.

* John Eastman — Disbarred in CA and suspended in DC; AZ criminal case pending.

* Kenneth Chesebro — Disbarred in NY; pleaded guilty in GA; WI case pending

* Sidney Powell — Pleaded guilty in GA.

* Jenna Ellis — Pleaded guilty in GA; suspended in CO; AZ criminal case pending.

* Jeffrey Clark — Facing criminal charges in AZ over fake-elector scheme.

* Christina Bobb — Facing AZ criminal charges over fake-elector scheme.

Total number of criminal convictions or disbarments among all of Ronald Reagan’s, George H. W. Bush’s, Bill Clinton’s, George W. Bush’s, Barack Obama’s, and Joe Biden’s lawyers:

0

Total number of criminal convictions or disbarments among Donald Trump’s lawyers:

Nine and counting

GUEST POST BY DAVE MILLER

 

Make it stop.

In early July, after the new DC Reflecting Pool paint started peeling, Dept of Interior Secretary Burgum stated the US had evidence of wrongdoing and that “acts of vandalism” were caught on camera.

US Atty Jeanne Pirro presented “evidence” and got an indictment of former US Olympian David Hearn for that vandalism from a DC Grand Jury.

President Trump stated “We have photographs, or tapes…” In addition, he said in June  “We also have pictures… ”. When he was pressed to show those images, he said they would come out in time. “At the right time you’ll see it,” he said. “You’ll see it in court.”

But then reality set in.

US Atty Pirro, after getting the indictment against Hearn actually sat down to look at the evidence and realized something… there was no evidence. No photos, no tapes, no nothing. She had stepped up to do the president’s bidding and was caught holding the bag.

Even as she dropped the case, Trump essentially ripped her a new one in stating "I disagree 100% with Jeanine Pirro on the Reflecting Pool.” He then went on to add the following…

"Frankly, I think she choked, because the judge was really vicious.” And that he said she "folded like a cheap umbrella”.

Yesterday he had this to say after admitting there was “contractor error” on the job…

“…there is no video or proof, other than the damage, itself,”, essentially exonerating Hearn and Pirro.

None of the above is in dispute. It’s all part of the public record and included in court filings and POTUS Trump’s own Truth Social postings.

Conclusions… I’ll admit, I don’t want to be charitable to the POTUS. I’m fed up with Trump, his lies, his profiteering off the office of the presidency, and his petty narcissism.

But I’m willing to say that it is possible no one in the Oval Office orbit was actually aware of the truth. Perhaps in a rush to satisfy the demands of the president, Burgum and Pirro just went along with what Trump wanted, hoping some real evidence would later turn up.

Because the only alternative is that all three of them knew early on that the president had gotten out over his skis, and it was their job to protect him… even if it meant lying to the American people.

What say you?

YOUR SUNDAY MOMENT OF ZEN