ROGER STONE LATEST TRUMP ALLY TO AVOID JAIL TIME

The latest Trump ally, Roger Stone, escapes jail time because Trump commutes his jail time.  Commutes mean he admits no crime, in contrast with a pardon that retains guilt, although he was convicted  He does remain convicted, however.

It almost makes you sorry for the few that have served or are serving jail time..

CHEATING HIS WAY THROUGH LIFE

So in college, Donald Trump had his sister do his homework and hired someone to take his exams. How about high school?  I can see how he could get someone to do his homework. but I think it is harder to get someone to do your exams unless he hired someone to attend school for him.  I suspect that is not out of the question.  I don't know about grade school.  I suspect that he got someone to read him his homework.  Mot classes are pretty packed, and he may have done " over the shoulder" cheating on exams.

It should come to no surprise, then that he would even cheat on getting elected as president.

Recall his invitation to the Russians to find Hillary's 30,000 missing emails.  The Russians could well have thought this was an invitation to get involved in the election and help him out.

Even then the deciding factor was the head of the FBI, James Comey, bring up the e-mails again shortly before the election.  There is no reason to believe that Comey had been bought off, so this was just a piece of luck.

By cheating and design, Donald Trump became president, and we have a mentally ill president who can hardly read.

OUR PRESIDENT IS FUNCTIONALLY ILLITERATE

I know that our president is now functionally illiterate and who cannot seem to read even a page, but wondered how he got through college that way.  The answer is that he cheated.  His lessons were read to him and his sister did his homework.  He paid someone to take his exams.  An imposter would actually go into an exam room and take his tests.  I guess class sizes were large enough that his face might not be recognized.

This concept comes from a revelatory book by his only niece Mary Trump, ‘Too Much and Never Enough."   who is a clinical psychologist.

OUT OF THE LOOP

The first politician I heard say he was "out of the loop" was George H.S. Bush.*  During the Reagan administration, there was a program called the "Iran-Contra" affair.  This affair illegally planned to ship arms to Iran even though such transactions were embargoed.**  It occurred during the second term of Ronald Reagan when Bush was the vice president.

Well, now the Trump administration has gotten into the act over the Russians paying Taliban members to kill American soldiers.  Trump claims he was never briefed on this scandal though, clearly, he was.***

So President Trump is the latest politician to claiming he was "out of the loop."

* https://www.npr.org/2018/12/06/674079779/george-h-w-bushs-mixed-legacy-in-a-reagan-era-scandal
** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affai
*** https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-on-defensive-over-reports-russia-paid-bounties-for-killing-u-s-troops/ar-BB166A9qr

AT LEAST THEY SPENT SOME TIME IN JAIL

Among all the crooks in the Trump organization, only Paul Manafort and Michael Cohn have spent any time in jail.  Both of these I believe are home under house arrest because of the coronavirus.
Roger Stone and Michael Flynn have never served any jail time.

Papadopoulos, 31, spent 10 days in jail which was his sentence.

Apparently, Rick Gates spent some weekends in jail, but he too has been released because of the coronavirus.

CORONAVIRUS

Some epidemiologists say that the  Coronavirus will stay around until 60-70% of Americans have had it, at which point we will have developed "herd" immunity.

If so, we are only 10% of the way there ( about 2 million cases whereas the U.S. population is about 330 million.  Furthermore, they say that the coronavirus will not be seasonal like the flue.  It is more like wildfire.

Since I am in my 90th year, the outlook isn't good for me to get out of "jail."  It is a very nice jail, but very confining.  I do get to go to the GP and Dentist, but that is about it, though some people go out to their bank and perhaps other places.

But things on the outside are only partially open.  One of my favorite restaurants is Beefeaters and they are open in Pinehurst, NC.  Maybe I can snake a dinner?

JOHN BOLTON

I've never been a fan of John Bolton.  He was what was called a Neo-Con (New Conservative).  I think he never saw a war he didn't like and wanted regime change in Vietnam Iran, Syria, Libya, Venezuela, Cuba, Yemen, and North Korea*  He didn't like international organizations such as the UN.   I was afraid when he joined Trump's administration,  we would go to war with Syria.  Of course, we didn't which is one mark for the Trump administration.

For all I know, he is as big a liar as Trump, but it looks like his book "The Room Where It Happened: A Memoir" will be published on Tuesday (June 23, 2020).

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bolton