Can You Spell Supine? More Thoughts

Apparently trump is going to direct Bondi to write him a check for $232,000,000.

He says that he gets that because of investigations of him by DOJ.

One of those investigations found him to be massively indictable for malfeasance identical to that of Bondi's current case against John Bolton.

But his captive Florida judge derailed the case.   

I'd like to have a conversation with Mike Johnson and John Thune about how trump paying himself by his own directive out of the Treasury squares with their function in the scheme of things.

During the Constitutional Convention in 1787 James Madison said "Some provision should be made for defending the community against the incapacity, negligence or perfidy of the chief Magistrate... He might pervert his administration into a scheme of peculation or oppression. He might betray his trust to foreign powers".

And so the product of that Convention, the Constitution of the United States, assigned two powers:

• To the House the power of impeachment (indictment)
• To the Senate the power of trial

Those may be Congress' most important power, and a power that can't be delegated, and surely can't be ignored.

But then as George Washington once said: " ... when a people have become incapable of governing themselves and fit for a master, it is of little consequence from what quarter he comes".