AG Barr responded with the statement that the orange man had fired Mr. Berman. The orange man then said on live television that he had not done this. Apparently they forgot to coordinate their lies.
Eventually the orange man did fire Mr. Berman. However, the head of the SEC, who is not a prosecutor and who was Barr's pick to replace Berman did not get the job. It went to Audrey Strauss, who is Berman's deputy. She is a prosecutor with decades of experience and first hand knowledge of the cases that have been in work by SDNY.
There is strong suspicion that SDNY is investigating Rudy Giuliani. If that's the case, it could also spill over into investigating the orange man. AG Barr did not do a good job on this whole thing.
There was a rally in Tulsa, OK last night; or as Eric Trump spells it "Tusla." It did not go well. The tik-tok kids and the K-Pop kids trolled the campaign and bumped up ticket requests to about a million. Parscale and the orange man fell for it. They built an out door area for the expected giant spill over crowd. All told, about 6,200 people showed up for the event. The outdoor area was quickly removed. So, the stadium, which holds about 19,000 people was not full.
For some reason, the orange man thought it would be a good idea to say that he had said to his people to "slow the testing down." Testing is a double edged sword, you know. More testing, more cases. His people have tried to walk it back saying it was tongue and cheek, but I don't think so. He spent about 20 minutes talking about walking down the ramp at West Point, talked about doing 600 salutes which made his arm tired, and then demonstrated that he can, too, drink water out of a glass. That got a standing ovation. The bar is pretty low for his supporters.
He does not look invigorated by his rally.
Today we went for a hike to see how it would be. It would be hot. I think we'll stick to the bikes, because they make breeze. The desert is looking somewhat desiccated.
The Palo Verdes are launching their pods far and wide. The front corner of the yard is covered in these. Next year we need to remember to prune off all of the overhanging branches.
Pima County has made the wearing of face coverings mandatory. One hopes that the grocery stores will enforce this. Last night there were 287 ICU beds available in Arizona. I just really do not want to get this. The charts showing the spike in cases is just gruesome.
Other than this, I have zippity doo-dah all to report.
Words I never thought I would utter: "I Love K-pop!"
ReplyDeletethe kids did not prevent people from obtaining tickets because they don't cap ticket requests because it's just data mining for them. another zillion people to ask for money. the kids are tech savvy though and I read that they created fake accounts and numbers to order the tickets and then deleted all the accounts. I love how they trolled Trump and his campaign. really bad optics with the outside stage. got a big chuckle out of me. campaign is trying to blame protestors blocking the gates for the low turnout which of course is a lie. everyone who wanted in got in. I also read that they made an announcement or as you passed through the metal detector, no guns allowed so all the gun toters had to leave. Only saw one report of this so I don't know how many were turned away. but, either Trump has less support than he thinks or his supporters aren't so dumb as to come to a crowded arena full of maskless people during the pandemic.
ReplyDeleteHe is so weirdly defensive and self-obsessed. To even hold this rally in the first place, in the middle of a viral epidemic, was foolhardy. I think people were ultimately afraid to come and I don't blame them. (And like your commenter above, I never thought I'd rhapsodize about K-Pop either! I barely know what it is! LOL)
ReplyDeleteThe only thing better than reading about the rally was the picture of the T, exiting the helicopter in DC.
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