From the moment Marilyn Monroe blew out John F. Kennedy’s birthday candle and Bill Clinton shared a cigar with Monica Lewinsky, presidents dating back to Jefferson have dotted American history with their dalliances. This time things are proving to be different. Week after week the smell of treachery is permeating the air. Today it was disclosed, by Stormy Daniels’ lawyer Michael Avenatti, that what is quickly revealing itself as a hush and slush fund, used to pay off women Donald Trump has bedded, may be controlled by a Russian oligarch. Close to five-million dollars was transferred into Donald Trump’s lawyer’s account. Meanwhile, Trump fixer Michael Cohen contended he had to take out an equity loan of 130,000 dollars on his home to metaphorically cover the ass of an alleged billionaire.
The billionaire who has lied repeatedly about his involvement with the porn star at the helm of his sinking ship. The Good Ship Trump has sprung a leak and not the type apparently the President likes. The latest player in this intrigue is, of course, another Russian named Viktor Vekselberg. Through a winding road of intermediaries navigated by Mr. Cohen and Vekselberg, Avenatti reportedly has proof of nearly 5 million dollars ($4,425,033.46) in money transfers to Cohen. During the period Cohen represented himself as a lawyer from the Trump Organization.
We have gone well beyond the absurd and each time I hear a Trump apologist claim, “witch hunt” or a “rush to judgment” I take a moment and add up the names of the key players:
Six: Sergey/Sergei(s)
Two: Agalarov(s)
One: Veselnitskaya
…and a Vladimir in a Russian Bear tree https://investigaterussia.org/key-players/russians-and-ukrainians
As much as I try to laugh, the fog of real subversion is hanging in the air like a cloud over Chernobyl.
Commentary
I am by nature a skeptic. I am not prone to conspiracy theories. I do not believe the moon landing was shot on a backlot in Hollywood or that Tupac and Elvis are enjoying a Mai Tai on an Island in Tahiti. Marcellus told Horatio,” something is rotten in the state of Denmark.” The approximate distance from Copenhagen to Moscow is 972 miles but the smell has made its way to Russia and the western drift has taken it into the Oval Office and the stench is palpable. Even Trump’s blunderbuss attempt to feign leadership by taking us closer to war with Iran, cannot sweep enough kitty litter over his mess. Yes, folks, the Russian government is conducting its operations at the highest levels in the United States government. The name of the Russian President has been in the news as much as the American President. Since the firing of the National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, who so far has been the biggest domino to fall, pawns like Reince Priebus, Sean Spicer, ‘the Mooch’ and an assorted cast of Saturday Night Live characters, who are making Kate McKinnon rich-- the Trump administration has been an unmitigated disaster.
Before I start banging my head against the wall I will soothe myself with this mantra, it is almost over, it is almost over…
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