This time for sure!

Another one just like the other one

May 31 —Federal prosecutors have obtained an audio recording of a summer 2021 meeting in which former President Donald Trump acknowledges he held onto a classified Pentagon document about a potential attack on Iran, multiple sources told CNN, undercutting his argument that he declassified everything.

The recording indicates Trump understood he retained classified material after leaving the White House, according to multiple sources familiar with the investigation. On the recording, Trump’s comments suggest he would like to share the information but he’s aware of limitations on his ability post-presidency to declassify records, two of the sources said. — CNN

June 3 – Former President Donald Trump was recorded on various cell-phone videos this morning strolling in front of his Mar-a-Lago estate and saying, as if to no one in particular, “Yeah, I stole a bunch of stuff, classified papers, tchotchkes, a couple tablecloths, and who knows, I may have killed a guy, Richie Fingers, look him up,” before giving astonished onlookers the finger.

Trump was wearing a white bathrobe trimmed in gold, open at the front and exposing Spider-Man underoos, and fluffy slippers. He ate what appeared to be a large slice of pizza, and sometimes talked with his mouth full, though state-of-the-art voice analysis technology confirm his remarks as rendered at a 98% level of certainty.

While many analysts, news anchors, and pundits predicted this would provide special counsel Jack Smith with the ammunition he needs to take Trump down — to employ the sort of tiresome metaphor usually trotted out in discussions of the former president’s overt criminality and the expected consequences thereof — some observers felt things would go pretty much as they have been going all along.

These observers fell into two camps. The first were allies of Trump, especially those accused of, and pardoned by him for, crimes committed at his apparent behest.

“Like the Russia accusations and the Mueller report I was caught up in, there’s more smoke than fire here,” said former presidential advisor George Papadopoulos. “We all know the President is a great kidder. Certainly his millions of followers love when he makes jokes about these alleged thefts the Democrats use as a smokescreen to cover up their own corrupt dealings.”

Regarding the “Richie Fingers” remark, and the subsequent bombshell revelation that a former Trump associate named Richard Bonaventura who was known by that name had in fact been found stabbed to death in DC’s Rock Creek Park in 2017, and the even bigger bombshell revelation that witnesses had testified that a man resembling former national security advisor Michael Flynn, wearing a long black coat and flicking his gloved hands as if to shake something off them, had on the night of the murder run out of the park, hopped into a waiting van, and cried, “that’ll teach Richie Fingers to fuck with John Barron,” Papadopoulos was phlegmatic.

“This is just the Steele Dossier all over again,” Papadopoulos said. “Also note, in the President’s comment, the conditional tense.”

“Drives ya nuts, don’t it, ya filthy cocksuckers,” Republican firebrand Roger Stone, wearing Victorian garb and gesturing aggressively with a frilly parasol, yelled through a bullhorn from the roof of a van covered with pictures of himself and question marks at odd angles. “They can’t pin a thing on him,” Stone went on. “Never mind shooting a guy on Fifth Avenue and getting away with it. He could go down to the station and confess and get away with it. We’re bulletproof, ya hear me, faggots? Eat shit!”

In the second camp were depressed newsletter editors who had been hearing this shit for years and had grown sick to death of it.

“Every time it’s the same thing,” said one superannuated Substack thousandaire. “Everyone cheered when Jean Carroll won her case. $5 million? She’ll never see it, no more than any of the other contractors and claimants Trump stiffed ever will. Ditto for the $10 million she’s asking for since Trump mouthed off.  Who’s gonna make him pay? Who ever makes him pay? This is like every other little dopamine pellet liberals have been subsisting on since the fat crook got in — something to keep ‘em believing there’s some justice in the system. Shit, I remember when they were talking about Nixon pardoning himself. In the end they got Ford to do it. But if it hadn’t been that, it would have been something else. They always find a way.”