TGIF 4/13/18

Happy Friday the 13th, Spring 2018 edition. And yes, there is another one this year - in July, in case you want to plan ahead.

We know the president is gung ho on the southern border wall, going so far as to suggest that repairs to portions of the existing fence near San Diego are 'his wall' even though, you know. 

Also gung ho on the wall is boxer Rod Salka, who wore red, white and blue trunks emblazoned with a wall pattern and a America First waistband is too. Sadly, he was defeated by Francisco Vargas, a Mexican boxer.

Who else did not have a great week? How about Elliot Broidy, a person most of us who are not big in Republican circles have never heard of - until now.  It seems Broidy, who was deputy chair of the Republican National Committee, had a fling with a Playboy 'model', a woman to whom he committed to pay $1.6 million to not talk about their affair. Or, I mean, to help her out.

I acknowledge I had a consensual relationship with a Playboy Playmate. At the end of our relationship, this woman shared with me she was pregnant. She alone decided that she did not want to continue with the pregnancy and I offered to help her financially during this difficult period.

Two years worth of payments, to "help her" keep quiet about their affair. With one of those handy non-disclosure agreements orchestrated by Michael Cohen, Trump's 'under criminal investigation' personal attorney, who is still officially involved with the RNC himself.

And that agreement? Supposedly the names used in the document are Peggy Peterson and David Dennison, the same names in the Stormy Daniels NDA. Must be John Doe and Mary Roe were too boring for Cohen?  I'm guessing anyone with the same name as our friends Peggy and David are not having a good week, either.

The president decided to skip the Summit of the Americas, so he could stay in Washington and tweet about not telegraphing his decision on what to do about Syria, which he had tweeted about earlier in the week, and of course to tweet about James Comey and Andrew McCabe. And to Pardon Scooter Libby.  And who knows, maybe to fire someone - Jeff Sessions and Rod Rosenstein are probably at the top of his list.

In fact as I write this, the president is speaking from the Diplomatic Room at the White House, announcing the military, economic and diplomatic response against the Assad regime we are undertaking with our British and French allies.

TGIF, everyone.