There’s a lot to report today. In no particular order:
A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Army to release all of its records regarding Trump’s Arlington Cemetery Stunt to a group called American Oversight. American Oversight is an activist group organized in 2017 to keep tabs on corruption in the Trump Administration. It would be great to get some more details into the news before next Tuesday.
For the time being, Rudy Giuliani can keep his three New York Yankees World Series rings and his Florida condominium. Just about everything else he owns — including his New York City apartment, more than two dozen luxury watches, and a 1980 Mercedes once owned by Lauren Bacall — must be handed over to Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, within seven days. So says a federal judge. If Trump ever pays Giuliani the money owed him for “election” work, that goes to Freeman and Moss also. The Palm Springs property and the World Series rings are tied up in other litigation but could be awarded to Freeman and Moss eventually. Giuliani may have to downsize his lifestyle a tad.
North Korean troops are now fighting in Ukraine for Russia. This is seriously not good.
Yesterday there was much commentary on Jeffrey Goldberg’s piece at The Atlantic, “Trump: I Need the Kind of Generals that Hitler Had.” (No paywall.) You’ve probably heard the antidote about what happened when Trump offered to pay for the funeral of a britally murdered soldier.
According to attendees, and to contemporaneous notes of the meeting taken by a participant, an aide answered: Yes, we received a bill; the funeral cost $60,000.
Trump became angry. “It doesn’t cost 60,000 bucks to bury a fucking Mexican!” He turned to his chief of staff, Mark Meadows, and issued an order: “Don’t pay it!” Later that day, he was still agitated. “Can you believe it?” he said, according to a witness. “Fucking people, trying to rip me off.”
Right-wing sites are now spreading the fiction that everyone involved in this and other stories has disavowed it. See also Nikki McCann Ramirez at Rolling Stone, Fox Host Says Maybe Trump Didn’t Realize Hitler’s Generals Were Nazis. And see Digby, The Wannabe Commander In Chief’s Hatred For The Military.
Another bit along the same lines — Michael S. Schmidt, As Election Nears, Kelly Warns Trump Would Rule Like a Dictator in the New York Times.
"North Korean troops are now fighting in Ukraine for Russia." If they were smart, they'd defect into Ukraine!
I'd like to see Kelly sit for a televised interview and say what he's quoted as saying in the book, short of that nobody who is thinking of voting for Stump is going to believe anything especially in the Atlantic. The GOP is full of fucking cowards even the ones who know Stump will destroy this country are too scared to come forward, the whole fucking party if full of Miss Lindseys! I doubt we'll see any of the Arlington stuff before the election. Besides playing our corporate media like a fiddle the other this Stump does well is hire lawyers that are good at delay, hell we can't even see most of the J6 indictment unsealed, I seriously doubt we'll see the Arlington stuff?
There's nothing to keep American Oversight from releasing it as soon as they get it. Whether they get it in time is the question.