2069 The Teflon Don and the Witch Hunt that Failed
They called John Gotti the Teflon don. For most of his career as a simple plumbing supply salesman from South Ozone Park, he slipped out of the pan where prosecutors tried to fry him. But eventually, the Teflon wore out or off and they got Gotti.
Be assured that the current Teflon Don will have a shorter shelf life. Our president, a simple innkeeper from Jamaica Estates, managed to slither off Mueller’s cookware. But that’s temporary.
We haven’t yet seen the Mueller Report. But the Barr Report by the Attorney General about the Mueller Report is not enough to satisfy anyone but all the president’s men. And women.
You can’t blame the guy for faking an orgasm when he learned that he wasn’t going to be indicted for collusion with Russia. But he’s clever enough to know that there’s plenty more to come. So while he does his victory lap, his teeth are chattering. And it ain’t that cold in Palm Beach.
Mueller is the opposite of the overzealous prosecutors that pilot most criminal cases as if they were above the law they were supposed to uphold. He’s so conservative, that he didn’t take steps that a more flamboyant DA would. The Mueller report, even the sanitized summary from the Attorney General surely has details to attract the kind of lowlife roaches that put this president where he belongs: In solitary. Maybe in padded solitary.
So now it’s up to the state and local roach control specialists to clean up the messes Mueller has at least hinted are there.
There are things they couldn’t pin on Gotti. There are things they can’t pin on trump. But they won’t have to resort to the Capone tactic, convicting a satanic majesty of a relatively minor crime like tax evasion.
The Teflon don is a national security risk. He opens doors to this country’s enemies and encourages acts that fly in the face of what America is supposed to mean. He sews the seeds of unrest. He encourages despoiling the air and water. He is a reverse Robin Hood. And the witch hunt failed.
To paraphrase Stephen Colbert: Fair is fair. No collusion? Okay we can cross out one reason trump is unqualified to be president.
But only one.
SHRAPNEL:
--So trump is off one legal hook and so is Jussie Smollett, as prosecutors in Chicago abandon all charges and instantly seal the record to the whole state case. You can easily infer from mayor Rham Emanuel’s statement he thinks the low rent actor bought his way out of jail. Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson remains unconvinced that Smollett is innocent.
--The Illinois State Attorney seemed to have no trouble dropping the charges. The network that carries Smollett’s program was happy with the decision. And the rest of us are just plain befuddled … or angry… or both.
I’m Wes Richards. My opinions are my own but you’re welcome to them. ®
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