On Friday, when Trump announced his defense team, Monica Lewinksy tweeted: “this is definitely an ‘are you fucking kidding me?’ kinda day.”
Here are the career low lights of several high-profile members of Trump’s team of misfits:
Pam Bondi’s leaving Florida — what a relief!
She’s going to Washington to join our Commander-in-Thief.
For now, though, she’s idle,
Just waiting on a title.
May we disrespectfully suggest: Bimbo-in-Chief.
Donald Trump has made it clear that he views campaign donations as bribes.
“As a businessman and a very substantial donor to very important people, when you give, they do whatever the hell you want them to do,” Trump said in July 2015. “As a businessman, I need that.”
At a rally in Iowa in January, he put it even more plainly. “When I want something I get it,” Trump said. “When I call, they kiss my ass. It’s true.”
Now it is becoming clearer every day that Trump has given donations to at least two Republican state attorneys generals — Greg Abbott, who is now governor of Texas, and Pam Bondi of Florida — who then decided not to pursue fraud investigations into his Trump University get-rich scheme.
This scandal in which the Republican presidential nominee appears to have bribed state officials has largely been ignored by the Beltway media, who are instead fixated on Hillary Clinton’s ineptitude as a webmaster when she served as secretary of state.
But with new reports that Trump paid a $2,500 fine related to one of the donations, it appears unlikely that the “liberal media” can continue to ignore what could well be the biggest scandal of the 2016 campaign.
Attorney general Pam Bondi’s schedule was in confusion,
But Governor Rick Scott offered an expedient solution.
In support of her fundraising,
He did a little rearranging,
And postponed a serial murderer’s execution.
Bondi’s assertion is in response to eight gay couples who were married in other states, but whose unions are illegal in Florida, who have filed a discrimination suit in federal court. Florida’s legal leader suggests the judge toss the suit.
Bondi’s reasons for objecting to the suit:
Bondi’s office says the state has a legitimate interest in defining a marriage as between a man and woman because Florida’s voters adopted an amendment in 2008 that banned same-sex marriages.
The filing also says same-sex marriage recognition would create significant problems for the state’s pension and health insurance programs.
Equality Florida responded to reports of Bondi’s legal argument this way:
We’ve heard some crazy from Marjorie Taylor Greene,
But her latest conspiracy is the craziest we’ve yet seen.
Nuttier than Jewish space lasers,
She now says Dems control the weather,
And to hurt red states, they created Hurricane Helene.
