Josh Marshall highlights an overlooked passage from Michael Wolff’s book, about Trump’s longtime lawyer Mark Kasowitz dealing during the campaign with “hundreds” of women who came forward accusing Trump of sexual misconduct of one sort or another. Steve Bannon was the named source for that passage, which brings up the obvious question of what the FBI might have found in the office of Trump’s other lawyer.
Speaking of sexual misconduct, the Missouri House report on the claims against Gov. Rick Greitens was released, and the victim’s account makes it sound like straight-up rape. Given that he conducted a defiant news conference beforehand, Greitens seems ready to go with the “little bit nutty, little bit slutty” defense.
While we’re on the pervert beat, the Bill Cosby trial featured lots of courtroom drama that will make a great TV movie 10 years from now.
Former GOP House Speaker John Boehner has gone into the marijuana business, raising eyebrows everywhere. People seem to forget that his family owned and operated a tavern back in Ohio, so how surprising is it really?
Rick Wilson has made a name for himself as the conservative pundit who despises Trump the most, and his invective is the most satisfying part of his lambasting of Paul Ryan and his supposed conservative ideals.
Are conservatives dumb, stubborn or possessed by evil spirits? Whatever the explanation, they just…can’t…stop…insulting the Parkland kids, no matter how many of them get fired for doing it.
Whenever a political actor admits to wrongdoing, it means there is much more wrongdoing that actor is not admitting to, Keep that in mind when you see the NRA’s acknowledgement that it took only a couple of thousand dollars total from 23 Russia-linked contributors. That’s the ones they can’t deny. Russians don’t generally operate using their own names, but rather cutout LLCs chartered right here in Delaware.
File this one under Lifestyles of the Plutocrats: The chairman of Sinclair Broadcasting is one David D. Smith, who hails from outside Baltimore. The Guardians reporters looked up property records for his homes in Timonium, Md., and Portland, Maine, and found — surprise! — he’s unpopular with his neighbors in both locales. British tabloids understand the sales value of demonizing dickheads like Mr. Smith, who is buying up all the property around him in Maryland, presumably to quell the complaints.