Tales of a Very Strange Man

First is this loser.

A Mercer County man threatened online to murder FBI agents after the bureau's search of Donald Trump's Florida estate last week, saying "come and get me you piece of [expletive] feds" and "I am going to [expletive] slaughter you," according to a federal complaint filed Monday in Pittsburgh.


And this:

In the affidavit for Bies, the FBI said he compared bureau agents to the Nazi SS of World War II and the Soviet-era KGB and said everyone at the FBI, from agents to janitors, deserves to die.

"My only goal is to kill more of them before I drop," Bies wrote on Thursday. "I will not spend one second of my life in their custody."


You can easily guess where he is right now. In custody. Because he got mad that the FBI grabbed boxes of stuff that belong to The People from a strange man this fanboy idolizes.

Does the strange man love him too, like all the violent insurrectionists, the white supremacists and a North Korean dictator he’s previously expressed his love for?? Unlikely.

I wonder how many similar incidents it will take to convince these cult members that their hero specializes in getting people killed or jailed after convincing them to send him money. And cheating people. And cheating on people. Even Rudy Giuliani, whose ex is dragging him to court to get him to pay up what his divorce decree requires, supposedly claims he can’t because the strange man hasn’t paid him.

Many of the guys he hired have been testifying to investigators quite willingly. Because they know better than anyone how strange he really is. Dangerously strange.

The CFO of the Trump Organization has decided to take a plea deal due to the tax evasion scheme and other financial law violations he and the Org took part in. But he declined to help with any effort to rein in the strange man. He knows exactly how dangerous the strange man is and wants no part of the wrath of his cultists.

Several prosecutors, convinced that the strange man had committed several felonies, decided to resign when their new boss decided to kill the prosecution of the strange man. It is fair to ask if that boss and the ex-CFO were paid off to leave the strange man alone. The strange man is famous for getting people to sign non-disclosure agreements to cover his own ass.

But another lawyer has decided to risk all and tell the truth, like many generals and Cabinet officers have. The strange man claimed he only hired the best people, but he’s fired many of them, others have resigned in protest and only a handful remain loyal to him now.

Today, the strange man was complaining online that the FBI took away an expired passport, his active passport and the diplomatic passport he used as president that he was supposed to turn in. Usually, passports are taken when a prosecutor believes someone’s a flight risk and convinces a judge of that, but I have no detail to confirm that. I can’t even be sure the passports were taken because only the strange man made that claim and he most often lies. (And btw, the NY Post lied, too, when it said “Attorney General Merrick Garland, whose 2016 Supreme Court nomination was nixed by Trump after his upset election win” because Trump didn’t nix that. Mitch McConnell did.)

His advisors are claiming he can stop all these investigations by announcing he’s running in 2024 or conversely, announcing that he’s not running. These advisors suck because they seem to believe the fantasies they’re selling. The best way to avoid prosecution is not to commit numerous crimes. But the strange man is a big pampered baby who never met a consequence beyond some financial losses for his ongoing legacy of crime, crime, crime.

But the strange man is delusional too. Like, do you believe “our entire country is angry, hurt and greatly embarrassed” by the DOJ actions to recover national security documents? Yeah, I see nothing to convince me of that, either.

(Those tweets came from a conservative publication - Hot Air - that is no longer supportive of Trump’s lies, reporting on a Fox News commentator that’s no longer enthralled with the strange man either.)

The strange man’s complaints about BLM, ANTIFA “or the rest” are riddled with falsehoods too. Which is normal for this strange man. One protester killed a man and was killed by the police. That’s it, for the entire country. White supremacists have killed several people, including cops. BLM protesters have not. No great swaths of most cities were burned. Can you name more than one or two? I’ll check it out if you can. It was much more muted than occurred after MLK’s 1968 assassination when more than 100 cities were hit with riots. I’ve previously reported on a study that indicated less than 4% of BLM events in the country had moments of violence, arson or vandalism. But those lies are meant to divert attention from the facts about Trump. (“Look, a squirrel! is a standard tactic the strange man uses).

Note: As I was writing this, CBS Evening News came on. They mentioned Trump’s claims about the seized passports, then said the FBI has refuted that, saying they had not. I guess that means my read of the strange man’s compulsive lying was correct.


Meanwhile, the Washington Post is reporting how far some of Trump’s lawyers went in their efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

A team of computer experts directed by lawyers allied with President Donald Trump copied sensitive data from election systems in Georgia as part of a secretive, multistate effort to access voting equipment that was broader, more organized and more successful than previously reported, according to emails and other records obtained by The Washington Post.

As they worked to overturn Trump’s 2020 election defeat, the lawyers asked a forensic data firm to access county election systems in at least three battleground states, according to the documents and interviews.

The states included Georgia, Michigan and Nevada. And some of he data was shared with groups trying to overturn the popular vote in other states, including the Republican think tank, the Claremont Institute. Though no fraud was detected by those who accessed the data or by any other review, and though some states have multiple safeguards in place to prevent tampering with the results, it’s not clear whether Georgia is so well protected.

But the security breaches are still alarming and should cause a fresh round of investigations of the actions of the Trump hirees involved.

Also, Rudy Giuliani, previously identified as an interviewee in the Georgia investigation, was named today as a ‘target’ in that investigation. Which means an indictment is more likely to occur when the investigation is completed. Both he and Senator Lindsey Graham have been issued subpoenas to testify before the special grand jury there.

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Yes, I’ve done more than one newsletter on the same day recently, mainly because of the breadth of events that demand our attention. Since this is the second today, I’ll forgo adding videos to this one.

I was planning to take a few days off because (a) Congress is not in session and August historically is a slow time for political news, and (b) I have pressing offline matters I need to attend to. I still hope to take one week off soon.

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