You've Got to Be Kidding?

Donald Trump’s former bodyguard and later Director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office John McEntee - told the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th insurrection that Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz told him he wanted a preemptive blanket pardon in the investigation into his friend Joel Greenberg’s hiring of underage sex workers.   McEntee added Gaetz further claimed that while "he did not do anything wrong, but they are trying to make his life hell, and you know if the president could give him a pardon, that would be great.” Exactly, because nothing says you are innocent of a crime, like asking for a “ preemptive blanket pardon !”  Gee, funny how Matt Gaetz seemed to feel secure in the fact Trump would be just fine with the idea of pardoning someone being investigated for “sex trafficking minors.”  Hell, I’m old enough to remember way back to before the year 2015, when things like allegations of sex trafficking minors would mean the end of one...

According to a new court filing in Manhattan, Prince Andrew, the disgraced second son of Queen Elizabeth II, has settled a lawsuit brought by Virginia Giuffre, a woman who maintained that she was trafficked to him by financier Jeffrey Epstein when she was only seventeen.  The amount Andrew will pay Ms. Giuffre is confidential, but British newspaper “The Telegraph” reports the settlement as 12 million pounds (approx. 16.5 million dollars), and that the Queen will assist Andrew with the payment, though his involvement in this sordid tale has cost him his public role as a working member of the Royal family.   Shortly after the settlement, Andrew released a statement acknowledging the victim’s suffering, but did not admit any wrongdoing. Of course, since being stripped of his title and Royal duties after his relationship with sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein came to light, Andrew may now no longer actually use the title “Prince Andrew.”  He’s now simply the “Duke of York,” alt...