Stash in the Stache

Trump is going after his enemies

The FBI raided John Bolton’s home and office today as part of a criminal investigation into the potential mishandling of classified information. Bolton served 17 months as Donald Trump’s National Security Adviser in his first term, and has been a harsh critic of his ever since. A lot of people who worked for Trump are now critics. Remember, he hires the “best” people.

In 2020, Bolton published a book about his time in the Trump administration, which Trump claimed released classified information. The book, titled The Room Where it Happened, portrayed Trump as grossly ill-informed about foreign policy and said that Trump “saw conspiracies behind rocks, and remained stunningly uninformed on how to run the White House, let alone the huge federal government.” None of that’s classified.

The Department of Justice under Trump went after Bolton in 2020, but dropped the case in 2021 under President Biden. Joe Biden’s DOJ didn’t drop the case because of love for John Bolton. Nobody likes John Bolton.

While Bolton, who also served as George W. Bush’s ambassador to the United Nations, has always been seen as a warmonger whose first answer to every problem is to drop a bomb on it, but he’s never been known to lie, release information that would endanger the country, play fast and loose with classified information, or be treasonous in anyway. Donald Trump has done all that.

We don’t know if the FBI found anything classified at Bolton’s home and office today, but we know that they did when they searched MAGA-Lardo.

Trump claimed he didn’t know anything about the raids, saying, “I could know about it. I could be the one starting it. I’m actually the chief law enforcement officer. But I feel that it’s better this way.” Wink-wink. Nudge-nudge.

JD CouchFucker Vance said, “If there’s no crime here, we’re not going to prosecute it. If there is a crime here, of course, Ambassador Bolton will get his day in court. That’s how it should be.” Who said it’s going to court? These idiots are too stupid to keep their mouths shut.

Kash Patel, a treasonous joke who’s now the FBI Director, tweeted, “NO ONE is above the law… @FBI agents on mission.” AG Pam Bondi retweeted that. Both of them should know better than to make statements about investigations. The tweet implies that Bolton is guilty. It poisons the water.

Patel also published a book in 2003, which included Bolton on a list called “executive branch deep state.”

Bolton said last January, “Anybody who ever disagrees with Trump has to worry about retribution. It’s a pretty long list.” It is a long list.

Currently, the Trump regime is investigating Senator Adam Schiff, a huge Trump critic, for mortgage fraud. It’s investigating New York AG Letitia James, who successfully brought a civil fraud lawsuit against Trump, for mortgage fraud. Former Special Counsel Jack Smith, who opened a case against Trump for trying to overturn the 2020 election he lost to Joe Biden, and Trump’s theft of classified material, is now being investigated by an “independent” agency on allegations that he engaged in political activities while investigating Trump.

Also, Pam Bondi claims President Obama abused and manipulated national intelligence to frame Trump and claim he colluded with Russia during the 2016 presidential election.

Bondi and Patel are politicizing every investigation just by dropping tweets about them. Anyone, like Bondi and Patel, who believes the 2020 election was stolen from Trump, can’t be taken seriously as law enforcement or intelligence officials.

Donald Trump and his goons, like Bondi and Patel, are abusing federal law enforcement and weaponizing the law to go after his enemies, real or perceived, for the crime of saying bad things about Trump or just looking at him funny.

This is more fascism from Trump.

I couldn’t care less about John Bolton, but I care about the law and facts. I suspect that Bolton didn’t do anything wrong except say bad things about Trump.

Fortunately for me, I’m not that important, so I should be free to spend the next few years bashing Donald Trump and doing the thing he hates most, which is having the truth told about him.

Campaign for new newspaper clients: You may recall my mention of the yearly campaign to recruit new clients for my self-syndication. I got this reply from an “Editorial Operations Manager” today in Kansas. He didn't say whether they publish political cartoons or not. Instead, he got snippy about it, which makes me believe the cartoons pissed him off, and he's a MAGAT.

"We are in the news business. We objectively report the news, not serve political agendas."

They never use the term "political agenda" to describe conservative cartoons. I've had this hurled at me in the past by newspaper editors.

I send the emails to every editor in the nation I have an email address for, and I do them alphabetically by state. I haven’t even received one reply expressing interest in signing up, and I’m in the Ks. This is why Substack is so important to me, because I can’t survive on newspaper income alone anymore. And speaking of that…

Thanks to Rob and Claire: They are two new PAID subscribers. Thank you so much.

The luggage: As you might remember from yesterday, the pull handle on my roller luggage broke, and I whined about it. I thought at the time, this is something nobody’s going to care about, but it might be fun and silly to write about it. But ya know what? I got a LOT of comments and emails about the luggage. I got links to new luggage, suggestions, ideas, and even an offer from one of you to send me a replacement. That means I should continue to write about the silly, stupid stuff in my life. My weirdo magnet doesn’t just attract weird people.

It also means that I have the best readers. Thank you.

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Creative note: There were two ideas for this subject, and they both had similar drawings. I thought the first one was just stupid, while this one is stupid and makes a point. I’m cool with that. You’ll see the other idea in the next batch of roughs, which I keep promising is coming soon.

I just remembered I was planning to hide Peezy in the stache, and I forgot. Shoot.

Music note: Based on the suggestions from a couple of you, I listened to Timbuk 3. And, I didn’t get into it. Sorry, peezeheads.

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