As part of KIG’s ongoing service to bring the best of the internet to its readers, here are today’s recommendations.
First up is “The Trump Resistance is the greatest show in town” by Roger Kimball of Spectator USA, a relatively new website which is an offshoot of the British Spectator UK site. It offers a fresh perspective on American politics and society. The Trump resistance piece is brilliant and hilarious. For example, in describing the motives behind the Trump resistance movement, Kimball offers this observation:
“You can understand their anguish. Someone they did not favor was elected president of the United States in a free, open, democratic election. Can you believe it? Their candidate lost. Even worse, the opposing candidate was elected without their permission, over their strenuous objections, unremitting ridicule, and against their hermetically sealed certitude that such a thing was impossible, impossible! O tempora, O mores! The 2016 presidential election worked the way the Constitution said it was supposed to work, not the way Hollywood millionaires, Ivy-educated pundits, angry feminists, or partisan opponents wanted it to work. Clearly, end times are nigh.”
And it only gets better from there. Coffee drinking while reading this biting bit of Brit commentary is not recommended unless, of course, you need to clean out your sinuses.
Then there is Joe diGenova’s electric appearance on last night’s Hannity Show . The screen catches fire as he repeats his charge that former FBI Director James Comey is a “dirty cop” and calls on Attorney General Jeff Sessions to fire Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein for failing to properly supervise Special Counsel Robert Mueller. DiGenova, the former U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, accuses Rosenstein of being “incompetent, compromised and conflicted” and of having authorized Mueller’s “unconstitutional and unprofessional search of the office of Michael Cohen”, the president’s lawyer.
Strong letter to follow?
A federal judge friend tells me that we were classmates with diGenova at Georgetown Law. I don’t recall Joe, but then I don’t recall much about law school. I made it a point to attend as little as possible. Now I wish I had spent more time there so I could have gotten to know him. He’s the best legal analyst on television who understands exactly what Mueller is trying to do (“frame the president”) and isn’t afraid to spell it out.
Appearing with diGenova is Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz, a former member of the ACLU’s national board. He takes the ACLU to task for defending the search of Cohen’s office and accuses it of becoming just another “get Trump” organization.
All around good stuff.
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