{"id":33067,"date":"2018-07-13T09:50:31","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T16:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=33067"},"modified":"2018-07-13T09:50:31","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T16:50:31","slug":"friday-triskaidekaphobia-nah-two-missions-accomplished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/07\/13\/friday-triskaidekaphobia-nah-two-missions-accomplished\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Triskaidekaphobia? Nah \u2013 TWO \u201cMissions Accomplished!\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

First, the old adages \u201cToo cute by half\u201d<\/em> and \u201cBe careful what you wish for \u2026\u201d<\/em> apparently were totally foreign to felon-in-waiting<\/em> Paul Manafort<\/em><\/strong> and his team of \u201clegal beagles\u201d.<\/p>\n

For weeks they endlessly whined to U.S. District Court Judge T.S. Ellis<\/strong> that having Manafort jailed (as a VIP) in a facility two hours south of Washington was impeding their ability to defend their client \u2013 to the point they wanted his trial delayed.<\/p>\n

But the wise Judge solved the problem by moving Manafort from the plush Northern Neck Regional Jail in Warsaw (Virginia \u2013 not Poland) \u2026<\/p>\n

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To the much closer Truesdale Adult Detention Center in Alexandria<\/p>\n

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OOPS!<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 Manafort\u2019s \u201clegal beagles\u201d realized their bigly error and begged the Judge to stop the move because of concern for Manafort\u2019s safety.\u00a0 But Judge Ellis would have none of it, assuring them that officials at the federal lockup in Alexandria have experience handling inmates such as “foreign and domestic terrorists, spies and traitors.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

But it truly is a step down from his other homes, like his condo that the FBI raided last August, and where he was able to stay under house arrest until he got caught tampering with witnesses.<\/p>\n

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(Judge Ellis is handling the Virginia case against Manafort, where he faces charges of bank fraud, tax evasions and failure to report foreign bank accounts.\u00a0 But Manafort also faces additional charges in Washington for money laundering, failing to register as a foreign agent and witness tampering.)<\/p>\n

Poor, poor Paulie \u2026 it’s a shame you are THAT STUPID!<\/p>\n

But on an even brighter note is the great success the folks of the UK, and their snarling baby blimp, had in making Twitler<\/em><\/strong> feel \u2013 in his very own words – \u201cUNWELCOMED\u201d<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

After his fiasco performance flop at the NATO conference \u2026<\/p>\n

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(I will say one thing for Twitler, he does \u201cCLUELESS\u201d<\/em><\/strong> even better than Dubya did.\u00a0 And no, that picture is NOT Photoshopped.)<\/p>\n

He went to visit Prime Minister May in London.\u00a0 Here he is arriving on Air Force One<\/p>\n

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The highlight for us \u2013 and the lowlight for him \u2013 was that snarling, diapered baby blimp in bright orange with his trademark white tanning goggle marks.<\/p>\n

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So Twitler decided to hightail it out of London to the Prime Minister\u2019s country home, Chequers. \u00a0But his helicopter was forced to fly directly over a Moat Farm field in Stoke Mandeville with a 650-foot wide \u2026 hmmm, errr \u2026 greeting \u2026 in Russian that\u2019s loosely translates as \u201cFUCK TRUMP\u201d<\/em><\/strong>!<\/p>\n

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(The word in Cyrillic script literally means \u201cwhore\u201d \u2013 but is commonly used for the \u201cF Word\u201d<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 A marketing agency, The Tenth Man<\/strong><\/em>, came forward on Thursday to take credit for the prank with the help of artists from Circlemakers<\/strong><\/em>. \u00a0\u00a0They reported the circle took over two weeks to design and over 12 hours for a crew to create.)<\/p>\n

So THIS<\/u><\/em> is what being well-respected around the world looks like.\u00a0 Now aren\u2019t you glad Trump was elected to make America so well-respected by our Allies?\u00a0 <\/snark><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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First, the old adages \u201cToo cute by half\u201d and \u201cBe careful what you wish for \u2026\u201d apparently were totally foreign to felon-in-waiting Paul Manafort and his team of \u201clegal beagles\u201d. For weeks they endlessly whined to U.S. District Court Judge T.S. Ellis that having Manafort jailed (as a VIP) in a facility two hours south […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}