By Baxter
If, like us cats, you have more than one life, you'll remember back to this moment in 1974, when Tricky Dick Nixon's secretary Rose Mary Woods tried to cover for her boss by saying she had inadvertently caused 18-1/2-minutes of silence on the White House Watergate tapes.
It was all nonsense, of course, Woods's gymnastics notwithstanding. The only question remaining is whether Nixon erased the incriminating minutes, or Roger Stone did. (We're serious. Alexander Haig suggested "a sinister force" was responsible, and Stone is still pretty sinister.)
Today, as usual, Benedict Donald is making Nixon and his merry band of felons look good. Turns out that there's a gap of seven hours and 37 minutes in the phone logs that Team Trump has turned over to the January 6 Committee — from 11:17 AM to 6:54 PM on that fateful day. Meanwhile, Benedict Donald is claiming he doesn't know what a burner phone is. More nonsense.
What's interesting is the timing of this story. Apparently leaked to The Washington Post and CBS News, it came on the heels of other leaks and stories — Ginni Thomas foremost among them — that imply we're ramping up to something significant. We can't know about DOJ, because despite all the squealing, which we completely understand, DOJ can say nothing. But the January 6 Committee is getting ready to hold public hearings, and no doubt we'll learn a lot — a lot — more about what evidence they've got that hasn't come to light yet.
Meanwhile, drip, drip, leak, leak. It's a canny strategy — to do a buildup to the Big Reveal (or Reveals). We cats approve, and we PURR.
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