For What It’s Worth

A lot has happened since last week’s blog, which is true most every week. But this week might have had even more headspinning activity than usual.

Another of Putin’s critics got poisoned.

Belarus continues to offer a preview of the US post-November 3rd. (An exaggeration? Only a little.)

A federal judge told Trump he has to turn his taxes over to the Manhattan DA, Cy Vance.

Seventy highly esteemed Republican national security officials — including former generals, ambassadors, and William Webster, the only man ever to lead both the FBI and the CIA — published a scathing public letter calling Trump “dangerously unfit” and announcing that they will vote for Biden.

Trump’s own sister — a retired federal judge — was caught on tape calling him cruel, unprincipled, a liar, and someone who panders to his religious base but really cares only for himself (no, you say!). She also corroborated reports that he had someone take his SATs for him, which might put him in hot water if he were still a Hollywood B-lister and not the President of the United States. In reply, White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows tellingly didn’t even try to rebut the allegations, only expressed his shock — shock! — that his niece Mary Trump recorded them.