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The Supremes handed Total two slaps in the face this week. The high court reaffirmed that even POTUS has to obey the law and respond to duly issued subpoenas in criminal cases and congressional oversight investigations. There is little chance that the public will see his tax returns before the election in November, as both Trump v. Vance (Manhattan DA criminal investigation) and US v. Mazars (congressional oversight) are remanded to lower courts for additional litigation that will almost certainly take public knowledge beyond Election Day. But knocking dead the absurd argument of absolute presidential immunity from legal process is a positive outcome, reaffirming previous subpoena cases involving sitting US presidents (Nixon, Clinton). Even Douche's two appointees voted against this legal canard. He knows that once he leaves the Room without Corners, he will not have consiglieri Bill Barr to protect him from federal prosecution for his financial crimes.
Was it Joseph De Maistre who said the nation would get the leaders we deserve? Thanks to his niece, Mary Trump, we now have an accurate picture of the dysfunctional occupant of the Very White House: a tragically flawed human being who's fragile ego depends on constant, deceitful self-aggrandizement and slavish support from delusional, co-dependent fans and associates. Equally tragic for the nation is that this gradual psychic disintegration plays out in the most powerful public office of the land during a global pandemic. But then the denouement of such a long personal history of bullying, cheating*, lying, and fraudulent behavior had to be somewhat spectacularly oversized, just like the misanthrope at the center. It is up to the American people to see that the Apprentice experience accountability he has strenuously avoided his entire life, but so richly deserves.
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US COVID-19 deaths (est.): 201,881. Number of golf trips in office: 276.
*Joe Shapiro, the real "stable genius" and former Disney executive who took Douche's SAT so he could enter prestigious Wharton Business School is dead, at the age of 52, and dead men tell no tales. But now that Mary Trump has revealed to the world her uncle cheated on the college entrance exam, according to the Daily Pennsylvanian he is in danger of losing his degree. After a college admission scandal rocked the country in 2019, the University of Pennsylvania passed a new rule: it would revoke the degree of any graduate found to have given false information on an admission application, cheated on an exam or tampered with their records. According to the paper, "an investigation can be launched if information is found that confirms or suggests wrongdoing in the process of obtaining the degree. Graduates will have the option to come to an agreement to possibly voluntarily give up the degree, or a formal investigation and hearing will be launched." No comment from the regime. For what it is worth, the widow of Joe Shapiro defends him (and Trump) against the allegation of cheating on the SAT.