Seems the White House has tossed a formal threat at John Bolton warning him against publishing his forthcoming book which alleges Trump misused the powers of his office. The misconduct allegations are included in Bolton’s “The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir”. Another day, another threat from an administration that continues to sound more and more akin to that of a dictatorship.

No witnesses and a quick acquittal in the Trump Impeachment Trial. Surprise, surprise.  Swing voter and administration boot licker Sen. Lamer Alexander cast the deciding vote of opposition saying that he believed there was “no need for more evidence that proves something that’s already been proven”. Congrats to all the similar leaning politicos who took the obvious path that they believe protects their leader, regardless of the evidence and also might assure their own return to office. Yes, yet another case of serving themselves and not their constituents. By the way, how can there be a “trial” without witnesses?  Jimmy Kimmel posted a picture of all 54 Republican senators, 16 were wearing red ties.  Maybe we'll get to see some of them even adopting blond hair and orange faces

Trump impeachment defense lawyer Alan Dershowitz says, “Any action taken by this president to help his re-election is, by definition, in the public interest”. This is the same Dershowitz who was a close friend of Jeffrey Epstein’s and was also on his legal defense team. Two of Epstein’s victims say that he told them to have sex with Dershowittz who does admit to receiving a massage at an Epstein mansion in his underwear but denies the sex claims.

Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein who possesses more credibility than the entire Republican Senate has reflected on that body’s decision for a Trump acquittal. “They have covered up what the president of the United States has done in his grievous action when they had the ability to find out more and reach a bipartisan, as it were, decision if we could hear from the witnesses. This is a cover up, plain and simple. And there has been no attempt throughout this proceeding by the Republicans in this Senate of the United States, the so-called world’s greatest deliberative body, which we can now see how deliberative it is, that we have seen now a really shameful episode in our history that is going to read down for many, many years”.

While on the topic of sleaze, Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Gianulli have placed their huge Bel Air estate on the market for a price tag in excess of $26 million. They say the decision has “nothing to do” with the college admission scandal and their upcoming trial. They bought the posh pad for $13.9 million in 2015. They’ve used it as collateral for the $2 million bail for the fraud charges they face. The pair have been accused of paying a $500,000 bribe to falsely submit their two daughters as rowing recruits to the University of Southern California.  They face possible 20 year jail sentences if convicted. Their attempts at securing tainted admissions for their offspring doubtless have impaired Loughlin’s career earning power which may be a large part of the reason for their peddling “the farm”.