April 26 Open Thread: Deplorable Doesn’t Begin to Cover It

Filed in National, Open Thread by on April 26, 2018

The pressure’s definitely getting to Cheetohlini. This morning Trump called in to his top advisers, Fox & Friends, and got so unhinged they had to cut him off before he did any more self-damage. As it was he managed to admit that he stayed overnight in Moscow in 2013, making clear he lied to James Comey, and said that most of Michael Cohen’s work for him wasn’t legal, blowing up any claim to attorney-client privilege. It did not go unnoticed by prosecutors on the Cohen case, who quickly filed new documents citing Trump’s comments.

Mick Mulvaney, the head of OMB, has always struck me as a sneaky little shit, but he let the cat out of the bag in a speech to bankers, telling them how his office operated: Lobbyists had to cough up the dough to get in the door. This is how many Congresscritters operate, but most have the sense not to advertise how crooked they are.

Dr. Ronny Jackson won’t run Veterans Affairs after all. He withdrew his name after Democrats released a damning report that claimed when he’s not writing scrips for himself and others — so many he was nicknamed the Candy Man — he was drunkenly wrecking government vehicles. The White House is being criticized for not vetting him better, but a better question is why he was still employed in the first place.

The arrest of an ex-cop in the Golden State Killer cold case got wide play, not least because Patton Oswalt’s late wife Michelle McNamara worked for years trying to figure out whodunit. Still unknown is how investigators found him, but McNamara’s researcherhas a guess — they might have used DNA markers posted on genealogy websites to identify a possible ancestor of the killer and then followed the family tree down to the present, looking for male descendants who fit the profile.

The New York Times got a recording of the meeting between NFL owners and players during the height of the take-a-knee controversy. Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie comes off as the realist of the group by pointing out that Trump’s was “one [bleeping] disastrous presidency.”

Black America is having a Kanye problem. Yeezy is going right-wing again, tweeting that he and Trump “are both dragon energy” and that he loves Trump. For some reason, this has made people question his mental health. Worse, it’s creating cognitive dissonance for pop-culture intellectuals who have for years touted his brilliance. My guess is he did it only because he can’t get himself and his fat-ass wife back in the headlines any other way.

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