Orange of Arabia

From Brother Charlie Pierce:

The President* Is in Violation of His Oath of Office 

It appears Donald Trump is assisting a foreign government in a conspiracy to obstruct justice in the political murder of a resident of the United States.

Three years ago this December, Mike Pompeo was a little-known Tea Party flying monkey congresscritter from Kansas who spent his time advising members of the United States military to disaffect. Two years before that, he was simply a little-known Tea Party flying-monkey congresscritter from the lab-rat state of Kansas who was trying to convince people he gave a damn about poor folks. In other words, for most of his public life, Mike Pompeo was a fairly run-of-the-mill Republican legislator who was wrong about most everything and lied about it badly.

Now, because everything is insane, this guy is the Secretary of State. He's overseas now, acting as a de facto accessory-after-the-fact in the gruesome slaying of Jamal Khashoggi, trying to keep from selling Yellowstone to the Saudis for a bag of magic beans, and not doing at all well at it...

Three years ago flag pins, "terrorist fist jabs" and Oval Office dress codes were sending Republicans screaming into the streets, declaring that American democracy was dead.


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