Tidbits

 

- a Q d'état, if you will

- can there be a successful coup by people who spell it c-o-o?

- Randy Rainbow v. Marjorie Taylor Greene:

- Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump reported between $172 million and $640 million in outside income while working in the White House, according to an analysis of financial disclosures by CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington).

- Anthony Scaramucci to Chris Cuomo: "He couldn't take an hour of questioning from you -- he'd melt like an orange candle." 

- Trump's legal team quit en masse a week before his second impeachment trial. A lawyer commented: "There are three reasons lawyers quit.1: The client won't do what you tell him. 2: The client wants you to do something unethical or illegal. 3: The client doesn't pay. Looks like we hit the trifecta!"

- Impeachment manager Jamie Raskin quoted Voltaire: "Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."

- The Trump defense team were so bad on their first day that after Raskin and the Democrats had made their case, that evening Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, and Lindsey Graham met with the defense team to discuss strategy for the next day. That's like the jurors working with the defense team. (We can't get too worked up about that: It's not a trial, it's a political process, and Democrats have stretched that, too, in the past.) Anyway, here's a tweet about that:

If I ever commit a major crime, I really hope the jury is made up of the people who helped me do it.