Under Trump we all live in Flint

Daily Beast

From Charles Pierce:

He’s floundering. He may well be in his last days. But there’s no question that whoever replaces him will be just as much of a vandal as Pruitt is. As Dan Kildee, D.Michigan, said, this is a philosophy shared generally at every level of the conservative movement—from its collegiate auxiliaries, through the think-tanks, to the politicians that movement ultimately produces. 

As for the rest of us, Kildee was right when he told that corporal’s guard gathered on Wednesday outside the offices that Scott Pruitt may not grace for much longer what the real problem is, his words echoing off the walls of the president’s luxury hotel.

“We all live in Flint now,” he said.

Trump rolls over on the JFK files---again

Later: Some documents were released today. See Trump Orders Release of JFK Assassination Files — But Many Redactions Remain.

President Trump's most salient characteristics may be stupidity and dishonesty, but, like all bullies, he's also a weakling, a moral and intellectual coward.

Not surprising that he again caved to the CIA and the FBI on releasing the remaining secret files on the murder of President Kennedy. If the Warren Commission got it right back in 1964, what's the problem?

The problem: Anybody who bothered to read it knows that the Warren Commission's account of the assassination was too stupid to take seriously.

Unlike the spineless Trump, President Kennedy actually challenged the deep state with his June, 1963, "peace" speech, which is probably one of the reasons he was killed, with the apparent help of the FBI and the CIA:

See also Jefferson Morley's Here's Why Key JFK Files Held by the CIA Continue to Stay Secret.

Morley quotes Gerald Posner, who wrote a dishonest book on the assassination that the mainstream media loved:

One of the few JFK authors who predicts Trump will enforce full disclosure is Gerald Posner, author of Case Closed, an anti-conspiratorial bestseller. “I think POTUS will honor his commitment to release everything on April 26,” Posner wrote in an email. “It is unquestionably the right thing to do. The public has a right to know what its government knows about the murder of JFK.”

Posner says Trump was uniquely qualified to force full disclosure. “What was always needed to set these files free was an unconventional president, someone who refused to be caught up in the byzantine legal and technical morass utilized by the CIA, FBI and other agencies to keep files secret,” Posner wrote.

Posner is wrong again! To learn why Posner is "uniquely" lacking credibility on the JFK assassination see The assassination of JFK: Case not closed.