Journalist Bob Woodward, of Watergate fame, conducted more than 18 hours of interviews with Donald Trump, 16 hours of which were taped.  Yesterday he released a tape recorded in February in which  Trump talks about how deadly CoVID-19 is.  He admits on tape that he intentionally downplayed the danger of the virus with the American people.  Tens of thousands of Americans died because Trump chose to deceive us about how contagious and how deadly CoVID was although he had been told so by the intelligence community and the Chinese.  He also admits on tape that the virus was dangerous to children not just to old people.  This is the complete opposite of  what he has been telling parents, teachers and state and local governments to pressure them to reopen schools.   The tapes and the interviews are the basis for Rage, a new book by Woodward to be released next week.

But before I could blog about the CoVID reveal, Woodward drops another mic from from his book.   Trump brags to Woodward that he saved Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, from suffering the consequences of kidnapping and dismembering a Washington Post journalist and outspoken critic of the Saudi regime living in the U.S (more here).  Trump is pounding his chest because he literally helped MBS get away with murder.  He saved MBS from guess who? US!   Read more about the murder of Khashoggi.

These reveals, as numerous as Scheherazade’s tales, do not move Trump’s white supremacists base. They do not faze Republican congressmen except for Mitt Romney.  They do not influence people serving in the White House to  suddenly find their patriotism and become part of the resistance.  They won’t change a single vote of those still wearing a red hat at this point.  And sadly, they won’t move anyone still “undecided” after 3 1/2 years of Trump’s kleptocracy, 180,000 dead, storm troopers in the street, corruption, civil strife, Russian bounties on our soldiers and three hundred more scandals and outrages.   No, the significance of these tell-all books and articles is in their shock value.  Every time you think that Trump cannot outrage us further, that Trump cannot go any lower, that Trump cannot do anything more despicable, he does.   And here you have proof.

Trump is an extinction-level event, a comet of chaos and divisiveness, rapidly bearing down on us.  Like an ELE there’s nothing on the other side of the election for us if we don’t eliminate the threat his presidency poses to the survival of our democracy.  Anything we say, anything we do that is not in service of that is disingenuous, or wholly complicit.

#VoteBidenHarrisToSaveAmerica in numbers so large that Trump does not get within cheating distance of another term.