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Dirty Tricks are as common in politics as sleazy pols, but the latest Trump mess has escalated into the skanky ‘ho’ of dirty tricks. And how apropos is that — considering that all these Russian dirty tricks began with a report about Trump and peeing hookers in a Moscow hotel suite? It has since grown into a massive tumor fed by lies, and daily revelations of things too weird to imagine including secret meetings between Trump’s top campaign people, a former Russian agent, a sleazy promoter and a half-baked Russian lawyer. Worse, that Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, with whom Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and campaign manager Paul Manafort were so eager and happy to meet with has, yes, links to the firm that produced the disgusting and unproven dossier about Trump and Russian hookers in the first place. So don’t be shocked if it turns out that Hookergate is at the heart of it all. Ironically, this meeting was set up to expose how Hillary Clinton had shady dealings with the Russians! Presidential damage control expert Mark Corallo even said in a statement a few days ago, “Specifically we have learned that the person who sought the meeting is associated with Fusion GPS, a firm which, according to public reports, was retained by Democratic operatives to develop opposition research on the President and which commissioned the phony Steele dossier.” Damage control? That’s like hiring Charles Manson as your mouthpiece. Corallo’s touting that the highest-ranking men in the Trump campaign met with a woman with ties to the firm that compiled the then-still-secret scandalous dossier makes the meeting’s intent sound even darker than it was purported to be.
On Friday we found out that a reportedly former counterintelligence officer-turned-American “lobbyist,” Rinat Akhmetshin, also attended that meeting.
The only Russian agents missing from Donny Jr.s’ meeting were Boris and Natasha from “Rocky and Bullwinkle.”
As all of this was unraveling, President Trump shamelessly applauded Donald Jr. for his transparency — after the fact — and then ludicrously announced another transparency: The border wall.
Yes, he’s decided it too should be not just see-through but smaller.
How about finishing it off with some cheesy brass trim and putting his name on it, too?
Why the insanity of even suggesting a giant glass wall? Well, because, he said, “As horrible as it sounds, when they throw the large sacks of drugs over, and if you have people on the other side of the wall, you don’t see them — they hit you in the head with 60 pounds of stuff? It’s over. As crazy as that sounds, you need transparency through that wall.” Duh! Yes, it does sound horrible and more importantly, it sounds extremely crazy.
And then when the week-in-Trump couldn’t get worse, it did — in the “you can’t take this guy anywhere” vein.
As the President and First Lady were arriving in France, The Donald couldn’t help but to give French First Lady Brigitte Macron the once-over, declaring her to be in great shape. She didn’t return the “compliment.” No surprise there. After President Trump shook French President Macron’s hand with his usual bizarre push-and-pull for a full 25 seconds, the French First Lady did the same to the American First Lady. It was like French WWE ... J. Lo reportedly hired a private eye to spy on A-Rod, whom she suspected of catting around. Anybody here have a whole name? Anyway, it’s a rule: If you hook up with a man who cheats the way other men go to work, chances are good he’s not going to become irreversibly monogamous. There’s as much chance of that happening as there was of her former boy toy giving up male peep shows.