Bozo the Conman Strikes Again

As usual, craziness comes spewing out of the Oval Office at such a pace that you gotta struggle to keep up with it. A few days ago, it was reported that one of Trump’s overheard conversations with a foreign leader aroused serious and urgent concern in a White House intelligence staffer about national security. Trump’s response to this news was a series of tweets (of course) that included this:

“…is anybody dumb enough to believe that I would say something inappropriate with a foreign leader while on such a potentially ‘heavily populated’ call.”

This was obviously the wrong question to ask. The correct question would be:

“Am I, Donald J. Trump, dumb enough to say something inappropriate with a foreign leader while on a ‘heavily populated’ call?”

The answer is YES! Definitely YES! A thousand times YES! YES! YES!

But, in the constant swirl of disturbing news that is Trump’s trademark, we now find that it wasn’t stupidity underlying Trump’s allegedly inappropriate call; it was that other Trumpian trademark: corruption.

Not all of the news around the phone call has been verified, but here’s what seems to have happened based on the Washington Post’s initial report and follow-ups by the New York Times and other media: Trump contacted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky several times over this past summer in an effort to get him to help turn up dirt on Joe Biden or the Biden family. Trump’s sudden and unexpected threat to suspend military aid to the Ukrainians – aid which had been allocated to help them defend themselves against Putin’s brutal invasion – was apparently the leverage our esteemed president was using to get cooperation from Zelensky. In other words, Trump’s communications with the Ukrainian president seems to have been along these lines: “Well, Zelensky, nice little country you have there. It would be a shame if you were invaded by the Russians and you didn’t have the weapons you need to defend yourself. By the way, I’m looking for help in digging up dirt on my political opponents. What are your thoughts?”

Admittedly we don’t have all the facts of the case yet since, as usual, Trump and his lackeys in the so-called Justice Department are blocking access to those facts. So, it could turn out that Trump was not at all engaged in sleazy, thuggish, and unpatriotic behavior. If that winds up being the case, I will hasten to tweet an apology. I do not expect such an apology is going to be necessary.

 Is anybody dumb enough to believe that I could get thrown in jail for cheating on my taxes???