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Did Omarosa make tapes? So far, there is no indication that she did -- but I certainly hope she did, because she is about to receive the kind of slamming normally reserved for anyone named Clinton. Her new tell-all book is titled Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House, described as a "stunning tell-all and takedown from a strong, intelligent woman who took every name and number..." I hope she was intelligent enough to press the record button.Undoubtedly, the bots of St. Petersburg will soon fill this Amazon page with negative reviews.
Before you get too excited, consider this: Donald Trump must have made her sign an NDA. This is Trump we're talking about; if he got a cat, he'd make the cat sign an NDA. (And yet the press called Hillary secretive!) How can Omarosa truly tell all while remaining constrained by such an agreement? Have her lawyers found a way around such an agreement? Has she decided that the legal penalties of breaking this contract will be offset by the (no doubt quite hefty) advance she received from her publisher?
It has been widely rumored that Trump, while filming The Apprentice, freely used a certain epithet beginning with the letter N. Perhaps Omarosa will give us her response to this rumor.
What's all this about pregnancy? From Avenatti's twitter feed:
Breaking: Donald Trump conspired with Michael Cohen to pay off multiple other women prior to Election Day in 2016. They were also concerned about a pregnancy. Cohen has evidence and info in his possession and it must be released to the public. Now! #BastaLater:
And for the haters out there, check my track record. I don’t make claims that are nonsense.Even if you detest Avenatti, you can't dispute the fact that many scoffed when he made his original claim that Cohen had multiple tapes. He was proven right; scoffing now would be unwise. Yesterday, the WP reported that Cohen made as many as a hundred tapes.
The obvious suggestion here is that the "pregnancy" is Shera Bechard's, who -- we have been told -- aborted a child fathered by RNC bigwig Elliott Broidy, not Donald Trump.
She does, however, continue to retweet messages about narcissism. Millions of people consider Trump to be a classic narcissist; I don't know of anyone who has applied that word to Elliott Broidy. Many have asked Bechard if she is talking about Trump -- and even though nothing in any NDA prevents her from answering in the negative, Bechard has kept those lovely lips shut.
I'm not saying that the "Daddy Donnie" theory is definite. But this ain't no wacky conspiracy theory.
All of that said: Avenatti recently went back to "talking trash" about Michael Cohen on national teevee. Not a wise move, in my opinion: The idea right now is to cajole Cohen into turning, and insults aren't the way to accomplish that goal. My prediction is on the record: I think Cohen will not flip; if he were of a mind to do so, he'd have done it already. But I'd love to be proven wrong.
Chris Cuomo. Apparently, there's a tape of Cohen speaking to CNN reporter Chris Cuomo in which he (Cohen) claims "I did it on my own," vis-a-vis the shell company set up to pay Trump's women. At any earlier stage, that statement might have been helpful to Trump. However, the recently-released Trump/Cohen recording clearly establishes Trump's cognizance and approval of the arrangement.
Precedent. On last night's Lawrence O'Donnell broadcast, there was some discussion as to why Cohen would make these tapes. The general agreement was that Cohen needed evidence in case he were ever made the proverbial "fall guy."
An historical precedent shows that Cohen made a wise decision.
Teapot Dome, the grandfather of all modern American political scandals, hit the Harding administration nearly one hundred hears ago. Basically, government-owned lands were leased without competitive bidding to private oil companies, almost certainly because certain powerful oil men greased the way with a massive no-interest "loan" to Interior Secretary Albert Fall. The most important of these oil producers was Edward Doheny, who partially inspired Daniel Day Lewis' character in There Will Be Blood.
Although American history textbooks invariably mention this scandal, they usually leave out the murder mystery.
The final scene of There Will Be Blood was filmed in Greystone Mansion, the sprawling estate that old man Doheny built for his son, Ned. (Many other films have been filmed on this estate. During my college days, I hung out there a lot.) On February 16, 1929, Ned Doheny was found dead in this mansion, along with his aide and all-around "fixer" Hugh Plunkett. A longstanding (but evidence-free) rumor holds that Ned and Hugh had an affair; subtle allusions to this rumor even made their way into contemporary news accounts of their deaths. Ned's wife testified that Hugh (who lived elsewhere) shot Ned Doheny, and then shot himself. (I'm grossly simplifying a very complicated series of events.)
Why did Plunkett do it? There are varying opinions, but the bottom line -- at least my bottom line -- holds that the Dohenys had planned to use Plunkett as the "fall guy" in Teapot Dome.
The case lingered for nine years, 1921-1930. In 1929, Albert Fall was convicted of taking a bribe from Edward Doheny -- yet Edward Doheny was acquitted of paying bribes in 1930. How did he avoid conviction? By making sure that Plunkett's fingerprints were on any piece of paper connected to this dirty business. When Plunkett belatedly understood what was about to hit him, he grabbed his gun and paid a visit to Greystone Mansion.
Michael Cohen is, in short, the new Hugh Plunkett.
I'm quite certain that Plunkett would have lived longer if, instead of owning a gun, he had been able to purchase a modern voice recorder -- the kind that is easy to conceal. Surreptitious recording may seem seedy, but it's better to have audio evidence than a repeat of the great Greystone mystery.
Finally: Goodbye to a garbage-mouth. Alex Jones has been suspended from livestreaming YouTube. I'm a First Amendment fundamentalist, even when it comes to the speech rights of despicable hatemongers. But Google, the owner of YouTube, is a private company. Nothing in the First Amendment compels Google to carry the crazy screeds emitted from the modern day heir to the Julius Streicher legacy. (Similarly, nothing in the First Amendment compels InfoWars to publish my own criticisms of Alex Jones.)
The AJ video accusing Mueller of pedophilia has been removed. I hope that, when Mueller's probe is over, he sues AJ for that vicious libel. InfoWars, Breitbart and the National Enquirer continue to poison the minds of millions the victims of libel refuse to bring legal action.
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