I got the impression that the Kelly / McMaster grown up faction wasn’t crazy about Trump’s hot 28 year old " confidante ", I wonder how he got them to sign off on it. Maybe she’s his teward for being good and not saying anything crazy for two whole weeks.
She’s a great addition to the reality show, though. Maybe the season finale will feature a Hope/Melania catfight in the Oval Office.
Kelly probably saw the list of other possible candidates that Herr Trumpenfuhrer wanted to consider and thought she was the least insane or damaging one on it.
WEll, your statement “legally disqualified” is false, Barrett clearly argues against that.
Her position is that if a Catholic judge feels their faith prevents them from judging a death penalty case in accordance with the law, they should recuse themselves. How is that placing faith above the Constitution?
Because she’s not merely saying that Catholic judges should recuse themselves “if they feel their faith prevents them from judging” a case. Were that the case, there would be no need for the paper - there is already a system in place for judges to recuse themselves from such cases. No, the paper argues beyond that:
Yeah, that’s the one. An ugly little Goldman-Sachs guy who’s loaded to the gunwales with personal cash, but he wants my tax dollars to ship himself and his blondie trophy whore all over Europe.
Also today, the Office of Government Ethics reversed the rules regarding anonymous donations to White House staff legal defense funds. For some reason. Swamp officially drained.
There are a couple of things about that wedding (which skipped my notice when it happened back in June) that make me roll my eyes and laugh.
The bride is in her mid-thirties and it’s not her first marriage. Yet she wore an over the top Cinderella wedding dress and…in her words…heaps of diamonds. From the Business Insider account – Linton reportedly wore a pile of jewelry including a tiara, a diamond necklace, pearl drop earrings, multiple diamond rings, diamond bracelets and, of course, her giant Oval diamond engagement ring.
I’m thinking Lintons jewelry pieces could serve the same function as the rings on a tree stump. Count them and you’ll know how many times she has sex with Mnuchin. (Funny side note - I just had quite the wrestling match with autocorrect to keep Mnuchin from being changed to Munchkin.)
But, back to the wedding … Mike Pence officiated. Now I guess maybe Vice Presidents are like sea captains or something but more likely it’s just like …Oh, Pence is the religious White House guy and he’ll look distinguished in the photos so he’s the obvious choice. Even though Mnuchin is Jewish.
And the official wedding portraits show the Mnuchins with the Trumps and Pences. Now, I know most people that get married are photographed with their boss and his second in command… no, actually normal people are photographed with their families. Which are no where to be found in the photos. Maybe because they’re Jewish. And possibly embarrassed.
Trump was never a real Republican. (That’s why our Board’s only intelligent right-winger opposed him and wanted an asshole like Cruz or Pence to win the White House.) We’ve now learned that Trump’s intellect is so limited he just agrees with the last person he talked to.
And now he’s talking to his new best friends, Chuck and Nancy! (I’m glad Chuck and Nancy are following my advice and trying to befriend the Orange Buffoon.) According to a N.Y. Times opinion Trump now agrees with Chuck and Nancy that any tax cut should be for the middle class, not the rich! (Yes, I know this will change once he listens to Sean Hannity or Martin Shkreli or whoever his next top adviser will be.)