License To Kill

Donald Trump filed suit to prevent his January 6 trial, saying that he, as President of the United States on January 6, 2021, was discharging his duties on the day of the insurrection an is immune from any crimes he "may have" committed.

At the hearing today his lawyer was asked by the three-judge panel if the government was able to prosecute a former President for any crimes he had committed while in office - including, theoretically, if he sicced the Navy SEALs on a political rival and had that rival assassinated.  The lawyer - who shall remain anonymous to protect the stupid - said that his legal immunity means that it would only be acceptable to prosecute him if he had been impeached and convicted by both houses of Congress.

In other words, Trump could shoot Joe Biden on Fifth Avenue and not only not lose any votes, he would not have to go to jail for it.

And if Trump is President again, his opponents will go to jail for . . . being opponents of him. 

Happy new year, folks.  It's going to get worse before it gets even worse.

On the other hand, Trump's effort to get the 1/6 case thrown out of court will definitely fail.  

Bernard Made Off

Bernard Madoff.

Made off with what?

Millions.

Now that I have that awful pun out of the way, I celebrate the conviction of the disgraced investor, who involved his clients in a Ponzi scheme that was supposed to produce big returns for everyone and only produced big returns for Madoff. His indictment on eleven counts of fraud, theft and perjury should get him 150 years in prison. Hopefully, this will be the end of an era, an era of unregulated greed in the finance sector.

A lot of little people lost money with Madoff, and so did many celebrity clients. Among the famous people who lost money in Madoff’s scheme are New Jersey's U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg, Mets owner Fred Wilpon, baseball legend Sandy Koufax, actor John Malkovich, talk show host Larry King, actress Kyra Sedgwick, and her husband, actor . . . Kevin Bacon.

Bar trivia has gotten more interesting.