I heard Bolton tonight described as the 'most dangerous' person Trump could have chosen for the job. Combined with the shake-up on his legal team, it suggests that his plan is to fire Mueller, then start a war to distract from it.

It that sounds improbable, consider that we're talking about Trump. My favorite quote of the week was from Fran Liebowitz, who, being a New York celebrity herself, has known Trump for most of her adult life: “Everyone says he is crazy – which maybe he is – but the scarier thing about him is that he is stupid. You do not know anyone as stupid as Donald Trump. You just don’t.”

I have another interesting bit of information to pass along too:

Tomorrow's front page: British data firm Cambridge Analytica offered £1m bribe to turn election

https://twitter.com/thetimes/status/976241838691700736

shit -----> fan

If we are going to do trump-pool speculation.... I have to go with Jenna Lee or Kimberly Guifoyle as a hope hicks replacement. Hannity could never recite the sunset poem.

I think Gutfield is a has been, I would not be surprised to see the very successful propagandist Tucker Carlson get some sort of call up, Besides he would be a good fit with "blow 'em up" Bolton.

The interesting thing I am noticing is that Trump is getting away from having any experienced practitioners of war and the costs associated with it and is definitely going with people who have gone to great lengths to avoid experiencing war but like the concept of it...

Should we be worried that Trump’s been communicating and making plans with Putin via backchannel means that our government isn’t aware of? Maybe Kushner did fulfill one of his many tasks that Trump stuck him with!

Guccifer 2.0, the “lone hacker” who took credit for providing WikiLeaks with stolen emails from the Democratic National Committee, was in fact an officer of Russia’s military intelligence directorate (GRU), The Daily Beast has learned. It’s an attribution that resulted from a fleeting but critical slip-up in GRU tradecraft.

That forensic determination has substantial implications for the criminal probe into potential collusion between President Donald Trump and Russia. The Daily Beast has learned that the special counsel in that investigation, Robert Mueller, has taken over the probe into Guccifer and brought the FBI agents who worked to track the persona onto his team.

While it’s unclear what Mueller plans to do with Guccifer, his last round of indictments charged 13 Russians tied to the Internet Research Agency troll farm with a conspiracy “for the purpose of interfering with the U.S. political and electoral processes, including the presidential election of 2016.” It was Mueller’s first move establishing Russian interference in the election within a criminal context, but it stopped short of directly implicating the Putin regime.

Mueller’s office declined to comment for this story. But the attribution of Guccifer 2.0 as an officer of Russia’s largest foreign intelligence agency would cross the Kremlin threshold—and move the investigation closer to Trump himself.

Trump’s longtime political adviser Roger Stone admitted being in touch with Guccifer over Twitter’s direct messaging service. And in August 2016, Stone published an article on the pro-Trump-friendly Breitbart News calling on his political opponents to “Stop Blaming Russia” for the hack. “I have some news for Hillary and Democrats—I think I’ve got the real culprit,” he wrote. “It doesn’t seem to be the Russians that hacked the DNC, but instead a hacker who goes by the name of Guccifer 2.0.”

The piece goes on to explain how Guccifer was identified after he "...failed to activate the VPN client before logging on. As a result, he left a real, Moscow-based Internet Protocol address in the server logs of an American social media company, according to a source familiar with the government’s Guccifer investigation."

Wonder who won the pool on that? And don't forget:

Dowd out ---> DeGenova in

Next, look for Trump to fire the US Attorney in the Southern District of New York, and replace him with Judge Jeanine.

Bring in Hannity to replace Hope Hicks? Makes sense in a Trumpian sort of way.

^^^ This! ^^^

Oh, my goodness, yes! RBG would be the only card girl needed for the 1-round match. She's a badass.

Did you see Colbert working out with her on last night's show? She cleaned his clock.

I love her :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oBodJHX1Vg

"Old Man Strong" vs "Old Fat Man"

Cage match!

Favorite song: Come Together

Least Favorite song: The Munsters Theme

Likes: Libertarianism, cutting Healthcare, workouts

Dislikes: nuance, talking, math

Favorite Movie/Book: Atlas Shrugged

Least Favorite Movie: Boyhood

Dislikes: Debate, Bipartisanship, sunlight, mirrors

Likes: Crisis voting, Mint Juleps, Horses, Cash

Favorite Movie: Wall Street

Least Favorite Movie: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Favorite song: Stop (In the Name of Love)

Believe me when I tell you that all-talk-no-action guys like "Cadet Bone Spurs Five Deferments" are running for the exits only to get caught by the Regular Joes who proceed to pound the BS right out of their mealy mouths. Seen it a thousand times. :)

p.s. His lawyer quit! *LOL*

If any party is capable of squandering this opportunity, it would Dems.

That is a very good point.

I know this is off-topic...

I also know how you love being prescient in your commentaries... :D

Insurers Race to Develop Coverage for Driverless Cars

Damage liability may shift from the driver to a wider list of providers as control of cars shifts from humans to computers
https://www.wsj.com/articles/uber-accident-wont-stop-insurers-from-racing-to-develop-coverage-for-driverless-cars-1521624600

Just wrote this on another thread:

http://www.chrisweigant.com/2018/03/20/two-state-court-cases-with-national-political-impact/#comment-117843

-CW

JL

https://twitter.com/ConorLambPA/status/976599949520588800