1) A report on CNN today observed:
“Witnesses are increasingly showing up at hearings — like Lewandowski — armed with letters from the White House lawyers advising them to limit their testimony to issues not likely to be involved in expansive future executive privilege claims.”
I find this so mysterious and, perhaps, a sign of conspiracy. Consider Lewandowski’s case. He was never an employee of the Executive Branch or of the Federal Government. So why should he be advised by White House lawyers? He has less right to their advice, it seems to me, than the White House custodial staff. All the world knows that Lewandowski’s ‘testimony’ is only one more act of obstruction of justice directed from above. More than anything else, Trump values secrecy. Why? All the world knows this too. And he has involved any number of public servants in a conspiracy to maintain secrecy, not about classified information, but about his crimes.
2) Can I discern another conspiracy in Trumpworld?
Trump has been working steadily to reinvigorate white supremacy in the U.S., to return us to a time when (Western) Europeans were sovereign, in effect, to re-Europeanize this country.
So I wonder if Trump’s policy of wholesale assault on environmental legislation and, thus, on the environment itself is a part of Europeanization. That is to say: he wants to return the U.S. to a time when greedy Europeans were encouraged to exploit our environment and allowed to do it lasting harm in their quest for Wealth, the only god in whom they really trusted. Of course, they did not exploit only the environment, but they massacred the animals and humans who were part of that environment. Indeed, they exploited even the poor of their own people whom they employed to plunder the environment and murder its residents. See Robert Doyle’s study Custer’s Last Irishman: The Irish who fought at the Battle of the Little Bighorn on the Wild Geese website (thewildgeese.irish/profiles/blogs/custer-s-last-irishmen), and you will know why the 7th Cavalry’s tune, the old Irish drinking song Garryowen is being suppressed.