AoSHQ The Morning Report
February 29, 2024
Fani Willis wearing her dress backwards was the least of her worries while on the stand answering to ethics complaints in Fulton County, Ga., last week. Body language experts say the Fulton County top prosecutor has much bigger issues than simply storming the hearing, sashaying down the aisle, and demanding her surprised underlings let her testify. Willis' dress punctuated the absurdity of the story the sashaying DA tried to peddle. She spun yarns to explain why she did nothing wrong because she paid in cash.BOMBSHELL: The Biden Admin Planted an Operative in Fani Willis’ Office to Target Trump, Say Sources
If you saw this slow-motion train crash, you know Willis didn't help her cause as she tried to prove that she wasn't misusing her office to prosecute Trump. Her father, who batted cleanup the next day, whiffed it.
One thing should probably be noted up front for this column: I've never been a fan of Volodymyr Zelenskyy and that has tainted my view of Russia's war with Ukraine. Yes, I know that Putin is bad, and he shouldn't be allowed to traipse willy-nilly about Europe saying, "This used to be ours so we're taking it back." That's an especially bad standard for the justification of conquest to be set on that particular continent.In Other News
I've often felt that Zelenskyy is far more interested in perpetuating the celebrity status he's gotten since becoming the "Flag in the Social Media Profile" darling of the keyboard warrior activist set. I don't truly believe that he doesn't want to win the war, but I swear I get a vibe that he wouldn't mind if it takes a while.
My cynicism is raging like pubescent boy hormones these days though.
Another thing that has bothered me for a while is that there haven't seemed to be any endgame conditions placed on the hemorrhage of cash from the United States to the Ukraine war effort. Democrats like to use support for Ukraine as an election-year political cudgel to distract from the fact that their president and his policies are an unmitigated disaster. They've created a false moral equivalence between Ukraine's fight with Russia and Israel's war on Hamas. Republicans who want to support Israel in any way possible but are reluctant to keep the American taxpayers' checkbook open for Ukraine are taken to task in the media.
When the Trump-Russia operation began unraveling, it was clear that there was an international cast of characters involved in the frame-up. The operation to get Trump — in time to torpedo his election in 2016 and then subvert his presidency — involved the Hillary Clinton campaign, the CIA's John Brennan, who informed President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden of the operation, the FBI, which appeared to cover it up, a reputed Russian spy working for a Democrat think tank, a mysterious Maltese professor, an international honeypot, an Australian diplomat, and a British spy.In Other News
It was the earthly equivalent of the Star Wars cantina scene. The "Six Ways from Sunday" crowd tried to trap Trump World into revealing that they were working with the Russians to win the election. When Trump won, the FBI continued the frame-up and attempted to hog-tie the Trump campaign in investigation after investigation during his presidency. Indeed, the Durham special counsel report said that the FBI had no — zero — reason to open the investigation into Trump but did it anyway.
"Witch hunt" doesn't begin to do this operation justice.