This week, the walls continued to close in on President @realDonaldTrump (also known as "Individual-1"), and it didn't cost Mexico a thing.
Tuesday afternoon, at a federal courthouse in lower Manhattan, Trump's longtime personal attorney/fixer, Michael Cohen, pleaded guilty to eight felonies—and, in the process, directly implicated the man he'd previously pledged to take a bullet for, like a fucking RAT.
Mere moments later, at a federal courthouse in Virginia, Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort—who had bravely stood up to Robert Mueller and his witch hunters—was convicted of another eight felonies.
In the days that followed, it was revealed that both David Pecker—the publisher of The National Enquirer, who had spent years keeping Trump's secrets safe (literally)—and Allen Weisselberg—the longtime CFO of the Trump Organization, who is said to know where all of the financial bodies are buried—had been granted immunity by federal prosecutors in a practice known as "flipping," which Trump believes oughta be illegal.
No doubt, these developments were very bad for Trump both legally and politically, but this week did offer a silver lining for him—it turns out that Don Jr. might not be his most illegitimate child after all.
Morning lineup:
Meet the Press: Rep.Jerry Nadler (D-NY); Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ); Former Obama White House Counsel Bob Bauer; Former Deputy Independent Counsel Solomon Wisenberg; Roundtable: TBA.
Face The Nation: Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA); Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz; Dirty Trickster Roger Stone; Roundtable: Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R); Democratic Strategist Donna Brazile, NOLA Mayor Mitch Landrieu, Megan Murphy (Bloomberg Businessweek) & Republican Strategist Alice Stewart.
This Week: Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL); Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ); George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley; Roundtable: Dan Balz (Washington Post), Kristina Peterson (Wall Street Journal), Shannon Pettypiece (Bloomberg News) & Shawna Thomas (Vice News).
Fox News Sunday: Former US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales; Former Trump Campaign Manager Corey Lewandowski; Roundtable: Former Pence Press Secretary Marc Lotter, Former NSC Member Gillian Turner, Former State Dept. Spokesperson Marie Harf & Juan Williams (Fox News).
State of the Union: Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA); Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ); Editorial Cartoonist Mike Luckovich; Roundtable: Democratic Strategist Karine Jean-Pierre, Rep.David Cicilline (D-RI), Republican Strategist Amanda Carpenter & Former Trump White House Director of Legislative Affairs Marc Short.
Late night shows:
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Monday-Friday: Reruns.
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
Monday-Thursday: Pre-empted.
Elsewhere...
Indicted Rep. Duncan Hunter threw his wife (who was indicted alongside him) under the bus.
California Rep. Duncan Hunter (R) says in a new interview that his wife was responsible for his campaign's spending, appearing to shift blame for potential wrongdoing to her as the two face charges for illegal use of campaign funds.
"She was also the campaign manager, so whatever she did, that'll be looked at too, I'm sure," Hunter told Fox News on Thursday. "But I didn't do it. I didn't spend any money illegally."
He did acknowledge that his campaign, led by his wife and campaign manager Margaret Hunter, made "mistakes" but maintained that he was not responsible for any improper spending.
"My campaign did make mistakes," Hunter said. "There was money spent on things not by me but by the campaign. And I paid that back before my last election."
Meanwhile...
A GOP congressional candidate in Florida hopes to be defined by something other than her close encounter of the third kind.
Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera, a congressional GOP candidate who says she was abducted by aliens when she was a child, said she doesn't want to be defined by her extraterrestrial experience.
"It has nothing to do with what I have done," Rodriguez Aguilera told The Associated Press in an article published Friday. "It happened when I was 7 years old."
The candidate is considered a long shot in the race to fill the House seat in Miami that's being vacated by outgoing Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R), according to the AP. However, she was endorsed by the Miami Herald last week for the GOP nomination.
Rodriguez Aguilera said in a television interview in 2009 that she boarded a spaceship that was occupied by aliens when she was a child.
"I went in. There were some round seats that were there, and some quartz rocks that controlled the ship — not like airplanes," Rodriguez Aguilera said in the 2009 interview, adding that she was visited by three large, blonde beings.
The truth is out there.
– Trix
