Today's Bad News for Donald Trump
From New York magazine: "A federal appeals court ruled on Monday morning that President Trump must turn over eight years of personal and corporate tax returns, financial information that he has thus far successfully shielded from the public since he entered political life." Actually, I think that's a tiny bit wrong. The forms were subpoenaed from Mazars USA, Trump's accounting firm and it's they who would turn over the forms, not Trump. As I understand it, Trump's argument is that he is immune from prosecution so he is therefore immune from investigation. The whole matter's destined to wind up at the U.S. Supreme Court whose members will rule however they want to rule. As I look at how bad Supreme Court watchers have been doing the last few years in predicting how votes will go, I wouldn't want to hazard a guess.
Today's Outrage by Donald Trump
From Vox: "The Trump administration on Monday started the official process of pulling the United States out of the Paris climate agreement. The U.S., currently the second-largest emitter of greenhouse gases and responsible for the largest share of historical emissions, is now the only country in the world to back out of the accord." I still don't understand the reason for this except for Trump's insistence that any agreement not negotiated by Donald Trump is a terrible, lousy, bad, stinky deal and that any agreement negotiated by Donald Trump will be a great, wonderful, perfect deal.