Saturday the President barely knew his former campaign manager and advisor.

 The question is, does the President think our memories are defective, or is his, or is he just lying again?

Let's make a list,

Steve Bannon - charged and arrested for this week. He has been telling people that he spoke to the president recently and that his work on the privately funded wall had the president's approval.

Roger Stone - charged, convicted and sentenced.

Michael Flynn - charged, convicted and sentenced.

Paul Manafort - charged, convicted and sentenced.

Rick Gates - charged, convicted and sentenced.

George Papadopolous - charged, convicted and sentenced.

Lev Parnas - I'll have to check the status of his case. Arrested while attempting to leave the country and charged but I don't know if he and Fruman have been tried. 

Igor Fruman - Same as Parnas. These two are also associates of Rudy Giuliani, the President's current personal attorney.

Michael Cohen - charged, convicted and sentenced. 

Cohen was Trump's personal attorney from 2006-2018.

In every one of these instances, when the shit came down sTrump'et  made every effort to distance himself from them and not in a nice way. He belittled them, claimed to either not know the person, or only had minimal contact or knowledge of them, regardless of how long the relationship or how deeply embedded in his political life the person was.

In each case, you can say that Traitorous Trump threw the person under the bus or worse. In particular his betrayal of Cohen was most pathetic and resulted in a Cohen having an apparent epiphany, recognizing how much wrong he had done for the person he was so loyal to for so long, and seems to be making an attempt to atone. His tell all book might be revenge, it might be atonement, it might be both, but it has to be making people around the President wonder who's next and how bad will they be treated when their time comes.

The point I am making first is that here are ten examples of Trump lying about his personal and working relationships with people who were caught breaking the law on his behalf, and every one of them was rewarded with the force of the law. Stone has been granted clemency and will probably be pardoned. And every one of them was denied by Trump as Peter denied Jesus. The difference is that Trump has no conscience and won't recant his lies.

And what are we to make of Trump's assertions that he hardly knew these people? Is it a matter of a faulty and declining memory? Is it a fear that these criminals' misdeeds will be pinned - perhaps correctly - on the President himself? Or is it just that he can't help but lie, and hope that everyone else will have forgotten the truth by the next thing to come up in the news? You decide.

We must Unelect Trump.

Joe Biden for President. 

'nuff said.

I'm running late tonight. I watched a movie that made me think. Very appropriate to our moment, as are so many things James Baldwin said and wrote in his time. It's "If Beale Street Could Talk." Watch it.

Here's a few more deconstructing Manhattan from a different angle, midtown Manhattan, mid-August, mid-pandemic. The dance of the dumpster.

Also, 'nuff said.

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