CNN: 'Hear How Donald Trump Tried To Spin Classified Docs in Interview Before Audio Leak'

Source:CNN- former President Donald J. Trump, learning what a real interview from FOX News anchor Brett Baier, is like.

"CNN exclusively obtained the audio recording of the 2021 meeting in Bedminster, New Jersey, where former President Donald Trump discusses holding secret documents he did not declassify. The audio appears to contradict a Fox News interview he gave on June 19, in which he denied being in possession of a classified document that discusses Iran." 

From CNN

"Donald Trump admitted that he did not win the 2020 presidential election in an interview with a panel of historians in 2021. The ex-president also said Iran, China and South Korea were happy Biden won, adding that ‘the election was rigged and lost’. 

Referring to his attempts to make South Korea pay more for US military assistance, Trump said Moon Jae-in, the South Korean president, was among the 'happiest' world leaders after he lost the 2020 US election. Trump said they were on the brink of making a deal for South Korea to contribute $5bn annually to that bill. 

Source:The Guardian- former President Donald J. Trump (Republican, Florida)

From The Guardian

"Former President Donald Trump delivered his first remarks since he was charged with 34 felony counts, and mentioned "all we needed was 16.9 [points]" in the 2020 election, Chuck Todd points out. "I went, 'whoa, Donald Trump is admitting he didn't win the election.'" 

Source:NBC News- former President Donald J. Trump (Republican, Florida)

From NBC News

I think most people who don't live in MAGA world (meaning everyone whose not confined to a mental institution right now or a political cult right now) has always known, or at least highly suspected, that Donald J. Trump has never taken. national security information very seriously, at least in the sense of treating like the value government, national security property that it is, that needs to be protected and kept away from anyone who doesn't have a national security clearance. Like a former President of the United States, political advisers who aren't currently working for the U.S Government, members of the media, etc. 

President Trump's own National Security Adviser John Bolton (no left-winger or Democrat) has already said that the only time that President Trump was never interested in national security intelligence, unless it was something that could benefit him politically, or something that he could use to hurt his political opponents.

But with this tape that CNN obtained, (perhaps now CNN is no longer unwatchable) we now know that is the truth and that Donald Trump saw the papers and information that he received as President, as if it was his own personal property. Like his golf clubs or something and not the classified, national security, information that it is, where you have to have a U.S. national security clearance, just to be near it, let alone be able to see it. And being one of Donald Trump's most loyal supporters, doesn't count as a U.S. national security clearance.

We learned something very valuable about Donald J. Trump, not just last night, but in the last few months: he knows that he's no longer President of the United States. He also knows that he lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden. And he can say it was rigged all he wants, but all those Republican legislatures, governor's, and secretary of state's, all disagree with him. All those folks also voted for him in 2016 and 2020 as well. 

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Dan August: When The Shouting Dies (1970) With Vera Miles

Source:IMDB- Hollywood Goddess Vera Miles, as usual with a memorable performance.

"A beautiful blackmailer dies in a fall from an apartment balcony, and the prime suspect is Dan's old friend, Heap Canfield. 

Best episode of the ones seen so far, WHEN THE SHOUTING DIES has Burt Reynolds' titular Dan August once again having to investigate yet another old friend for possible murder, only this time he and the guy have some chemistry, that being his future SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT pursuer Mike Henry (who'd play Jackie Gleason's dimwit son): he's a former football buddy and star on his own, owner of a restaurant and blamed for throwing a woman out a window, which opens the show with her getting beaten as jazzy game show-type music plays... other guests include Victor French, Geoffrey Lewis and Burt actually mentions the actor Jon Voight, his soon-to-be DELIVERANCE co-star... This episode has the same device of going from place to place with questions only the questions and answers are intriguing, and Burt comes out of his monotone this time... just a little more than usual." 

From IMDB

If you like crime TV and fictional, Hollywood, crime shows, I think you'll really like this episode of Dan August and perhaps the rest of this series from 1970. It was only one season on ABC, but there's enough good TV and excellent supporting actors, as well as having Burt Reynolds, (yes, that Burt Reynolds) Norman Fell, and Richard Anderson, as the lead actors and a whole host of excellent supporting actors and guest stars, that I think you'll like this series, especially the When The Shouting Dies episode with Vera Miles and Mike Henry.

Mike Henry plays a former high school football star in this fictional, Southern California town of Santa Luisa, that's near Santa Barbara and Oxnard, who never quite made it in pro football (as they say) and instead is a local businessman, who seems to be loaded financially. But what most of the people in this town don't know, he's actually broke. It's his wealthy wife Carla (played by the gorgeous and adorable Vera Miles) who owns these businesses and his company, it's just in Heap Canfield's (played by Mike Henry) name. 

Heap Canfield is basically an 18 or 19 year old mentally and personally, in the body of a 34-35 football player. He cheats on his wife Carla but she knows and doesn't care. She doesn't respect him and just sees him as a boy toy that she uses to pleasure him. But Heap's latest affair with a young woman named Jenny Bowman (played by Donna Garrett) goes too far. She has blackmail on him and threatens to expose him as the immature, loser that he actually is. Heap can't handle that and beats her to death, actually she gets thrown out of her own apartment. (So to speak) The question is did Heap intentionally throw her out the window, was it unintentional, or did she accidentally fall out the window. 

Santa Luisa Police Detective Lieutenant Dan August (played by Burt Reynolds, yes that Burt Reynolds) just happens to be Heap Canfield's old friend and football teammate from high school. August's whole unit, including his partner Sergeant Charlie Wilentz (played by Norman Fell) and perhaps the whole police department, including the Chief (played by Richard Anderson) believes that Heap is guilty. Motive, means, opportunity, no alibi, he had the time to pull off the murder and get away with it. But Dan August knows that Heap is not a murderer. (At least not normally) And he's really just a big, teddy bear of a guy, who wouldn't intentionally hurt anybody. 

I love this episode for all the reasons that I just laid out. But most importantly because of Vera Miles. But 1970, she's in her early 40s (if I have her bio right) and no longer ,making movies for the most part and instead making a lot of important and starring guest appearances on fictional crime shows, like Dan August, 3 appearances on Cannon in the early and mid 1970s, Hawaii 50 in 1973, Barnaby Jones in 1977. 

Vera had a tendency to play women who were a lot tougher and sharper than they appeared. And in Dan August, she plays a gorgeous and yet pussycat looking sweetheart, who happens to also be very wicked, who knows what she wants and how to maintain it, which is Heap Canfield, her boy toy husband and gives a great performance.

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Sundance: Indefensible: Casey Anthony (2022)

Source:Sundance Indefensible Casey Anthony.

"Jena Friedman travels America to unspool real cases on the ground, but unlike most true crime shows, this one doesn’t end when the criminal gets locked up. Jena finds there’s always more to the story and drives to a different outcome beyond the simple whodunnit. Using her unflinching comedic point of view and disarming interview skills, Jena uncovers the “why” and “how” not only of crimes themselves, but of our sometimes dysfunctional criminal justice system." 

From Sundance

I'm sure I heard about the Casey Anthony story breaking (if you want to put it that way) back in 2008, (I wasn't vacationing in Afghanistan or some place) but it's only in the last few years when I've been blogging anything about true crime, that I've following this case and looking into it myself. So no, I'm not an expert on it, I'm not a lawyer, not a detective, not even a true crime reporter, but I can give you what I know about the case and what I think about it, from what I've seen about it. 

Just looking at it from the outside, I think Casey Anthony is guilty of something horrible here, in the death of her daughter Caylee. And it looks like her parents and brother believe that as well. And it might just be she knows what happened to her daughter, but is protecting the person whose actually responsible for the death of her daughter. Which is bad enough, but that alone doesn't make you a murderer. 

My own theory is that that the baby died accidentally, Casey freaked out about that and instead of acting like a mature, responsible, adult (which she's never been) she freaked out and decided to try to cover it up, even though she didn't personally murder her baby, but perhaps didn't want to be blamed for the murder of her baby. 

I believe that Casey is responsible for the accidental death or saw her daughter die, perhaps found her dead, but doesn't know how she died, because there's no absolutely convincing evidence that she murdered her daughter. Just a lot and I mean a truck load (to be clean) of and perhaps just as much circumstantial evidence to suggest that O.J. Simpson murder Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman, just 14 years earlier in 1994. 

Then you just look at how Casey was acting after the baby died like she was almost relieved by it and partying heavily like her social life just returned, because she no longer has a baby to take care of. The fact that Casey waited 20 days to report her daughter missing, or the trunk of her car smelling like a dead body, motive, means, opportunity, etc.

As far as the Casey Anthony trial: again, I'm not a lawyer, but to not just go for murder 1, but for the death penalty, I know this is Florida, but it's always useful to live in the real world and when you can't prove 1st degree murder, I think the death penalty is the last thing you should be looking at. I think the prosecution lost this case just based on the punishment that they were seeking. And that might be why the jury acquitted her and nothing else. I think if the prosecution goes for manslaughter and child endangerment or just child endangerment, Casey Anthony is probably still be in prison today. 

As I said, I think Casey Anthony at the very least knows what happened to her daughter, but doesn't want to give the person up, like herself, if she's actually responsible here. But we may never know, unless Casey comes clean, how her daughter died on that horrible day in 2008. 

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CNN: SE Cupp: 'The Hypocrisy of Censuring Adam Schiff'

Source:CNN political commentator and real-life Conservative Republican, S.E. Cupp. Not someone who pretends to be a Conservative, unlike MAGA Republicans.

"SE Cupp argues that the Republican-controlled House's censure of Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff was nothing more than a theatrical performance, which showcased a party far more interested in revenge than problem-solving or legislating." 

From CNN

When MAGA Republicans tell you that they believe in fiscal responsibility, or even fiscal conservatism, family values, integrity, the rule of law, the U.S. Constitution, personal responsibility, tradition, you know things that seem like old school values today, but were what defined the Republican Party up until, I don't know the Tea Party years, let's say, ask then if they also have an oceanfront beach house in South Dakota that they would like to sell you. As well as next week's lotto number in all 50 states, (or at least in every state that has a state lottery) because you would have to be President of Suckers United, to even consider taking them seriously on any of that.

The old school values that I mentioned before, are the values of the Republican Party that S.E. Cupp comes from. The values of :"We need to get them, because they're against Donald Trump." are the values of the MAGA wing of the country. 

I mean, let's face it, MAGA people aren't really Republicans, at least not ideologically. They are registered Republicans in ordered to get elected to high office, like the U.S. House of Representatives. And most of their districts are right-wing gerrymandered districts anyway.

As far as the censure of Representative Adam Schiff: I really don't have anything to add to what S.E Cupp said here. They censured him (which is not even worth a ticket for jaywalking) simply because he's a Democrat, who opposes Donald Trump (the leader of the MAGA Cult) and he's a Democrat. 

If Representative Schiff supported Donald Trump 100% of the time, he could be a serial rapist, as well as murderer and no one in MAGA would oppose him for anything. Just as long as he supports Donald J. Trump 100% of the time. 

Hell, President Trump would probably pardon Representative Schiff (God save America, if Donald Trump ever becomes POTUS again) just as long as Schiff supports him 100% of the time, all the time, no breaks, no holidays. 

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CNN: 'Maggie Haberman Shares Two Reasons Why Donald Trump Has Trouble Keeping Lawyers'

Source:CNN & New York Times Donald Trump whisperer Maggie Haberman.

"CNN's Jessica Schneider breaks down the latest in former President Donald Trump's federal classified documents case. CNN's Alex Marquardt discusses with CNN's panel of experts." 

From CNN

Maggie Haberman as usual put the nail on the head here. I mean if you were a lawyer who worked 70-80 hours a week, making 6 or 7 figures a year, working and living in Washington or New York, would you want to do that free, regardless of who your client was? Because that's probably what you would be doing, if your client was Donald J. Trump. 

This just adds to the speculation that former President Trump doesn't pay his lawyers, simply because he can't afford too and not just of all the cases that have snowballed on hm the last 2 years and even longer than that, but because of all the debt he piled up, even before he became President of the United States, as well as the debt he piled up as President, which the net worth of his businesses plummeting because of his unpopularity as President. 

But also and I got into this yesterday and last week, Donald Trump doesn't pay people who work for him, because he doesn't think he has to. He sees himself as some type of an American king, that everyone around should feel lucky just to be in the same room as him. And therefor, he's never obligated to pay for any of the services that he ever receives.

And the other reason why Donald Trump struggles to obtain and retain quality counsel for him, because he's a horrible client! If you wanted to come up with a fantasy or nightmare about the worst possible legal client, in the history of the world, perhaps (there might be worst legal clients then Donald Trump) I think Donald John Trump would certainly be on the list. 

So now you are not even getting paid by your client, even after all the work and research that you put in to give him a sound defense, but your client is a compulsive liar, who talks way too much (as most compulsive liars do) and can't stick to the same story (or piece of garbage) for 5 minutes, let alone an entire day, who literally makes things (to be kind) up on the fly to try to get through the latest crisis, or day, really, that he created for himself. Which just creates more work for you that you are probably doing for free, because now the prosecution can use what your client just said against him. 

I mean with a client like Donald J. Trump, you must feel like you just checked into Hell, with a room on the top floor, with no escape, other than jumping out your window. And you might be wondering how many people you just murdered, to have to be going through this experience, or when will this nightmare be over.

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CNN: 'Donald Trump Offers New Reason For Not Giving Classified Material To Investigators'

Source:CNN- former President Donald J. Trump (Republican, Florida) getting a real interview (for a change) from FOX News.

"During an interview with Fox News' Bret Baier, former President Donald Trump offered a multitude of new justifications for keeping classified material after leaving the White House and refusing to give them back to the National Archives and Records Administration." 

From CNN

Let's say that the boxes that Donald Trump went through just after getting back home in Florida, after least The White House in early 2021, was actually just items and gifts that he picked while as President, like golf shirts, pants, etc, but nothing that is classified, like, I don't know, intelligence about Iran's nuclear program (just to use as an example) and while we're assuming that, let's assume that Saudi Arabia runs out of oil, gas, dirt, and sand, tomorrow and we've already seen our last violent crime in America, and politicians, especially Donald Trump, never lie. 

To take Donald Trump seriously on this, we would not only have to admit that we're total morons, but were running for President of Suckers of America, who wait in line everyday to get screwed by the latest scam artist. We would have to assume a lot here that's obviously factually false, before we could assume that President Trump is either attempting to tell the truth here, let alone just purely bullshitting (to be frank) someone who at least at one point, was very friendly to Donald Trump, FOX News anchor Brett Baier. 

I mean Brett Baier was real time fact-checking a Republican President during this interview, which gives you an ides that he wasn't swallowing the bullshit (again, to be frank) that President Trump was trying to feed him. Baier, was literally reading off the indictment against Trump, as he was trying to question the former President, to counter what Trump was trying to feed him.

But again, just for the hell of it: what are gifts that President Trump received, doing in boxes with all sorts of classified documents in them? Who does that, especially a government official? 

I think what this gets down too (and again, I'm not a lawyer) is that Donald Trump never expected to lose reelection, because he knew what and who were coming for him, once he was a private citizen and was caught completely off guard by his election lost and hasn't figured out how to handle that, other than to run for President again, pray (even though he's not religious) to God that he's elected again and can pardon himself. 

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Cannon Season 5: Fall Guy (1975) Guest Starring Vera Miles

Source:IMDB- William Conrad as former LAPD detective & current Los Angeles private eye Frank Cannon.

"Cannon investigates on the behalf of an oil executive who claims he is being framed for fraud and embezzlement. But he runs into heavy resistance in his investigation from the corporation's domineering female president. 

I'm working my way through the entire series and am now, sadly, reaching the end! Most weekday afternoons I retire to my "Manshed" and watch an episode with a large cigar (I think William Conrad would have approved!) Wonderful trips down memory lane.

Anyway, I found this episode to be one of the best. I appreciated the bullish, no-nonsense nature of the client (played with great gusto by Alan Feinstein), the tough woman boss (excellent Vera Miles) so different from her performance as the damsel in distress in the pilot. And great to see former Tarzan, Denny Miller roll Cannon out of his office and give him a thrashing. I love that on his next visit to see him, Cannon held a ship-in-a-bottle for protection!

The plot has been covered by other reviewers but I thought it moved at a great pace and was extremely well directed.

Cannon is really up against it in this one and takes more lumps that usual. The conclusion may not be a great surprise but the whole show is well acted and stands up really well.

Don't be put off by the other very low ratings; this one is a corker!" 

From IMDB 

"CANNON, (from left): William Conrad, Vera Miles, Fall Guy , (Season 5, aired Nov. 5, 1975), 1971-76. Courtesy Everett Collection !ACHTUNG AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Y Copyright: xCourtesyxEverettxCollectionx TSDCANN EC009... 

Source:IMAGO- William Conrad & Vera Miles. Hopefully you can figure for yourself who is who.

From IMAGO 

"Cannon goes up against a tough female CEO when one of her executives hires the PI to clear his name." 

Source:TV Maze- Vera Miles & William Conrad. Hopefully you can figure out for yourself who is who.

From TV Maze

Just to give you a little personal background about me regarding this episode first: 

Late 2017 and early 2018, I was still an insomniac and I was flipping around one night and saw this episode of Cannon on MeTV. Actually, I saw several Cannon episodes from season 5 as well before the Fall Guy episode and most if not all of them were very good. 

I don't think Cannon was a great detective series, but some of the episodes, especially from the 1st half of the last season, are some of the best private eye TV episodes that I've ever seen, to the point I have a lot of them on DVD now and seen them all several times. But the Fall Guy episode, especially with Vera Miles, whose gorgeous and yet absolutely adorable and sexy in everything that she's ever done, is the episode in the entire 5 seasons of the Cannon TV series.

Before I saw Vera Miles on Cannon, I heard the name before, but I didn't have much of an idea who she was. After seeing her on Cannon several years ago, I developed a crush on her. She was also the pilot film of this series in 1971 and made another appearance on during season 1 as well. But didn't come back again until the last season, playing another difference character in late 1975. 

To give you an idea what the Fall Guy episode is like: if you are a fan of soap operas, especially soap operas that lets say involve criminal activity, or at the very least immoral, but not criminal behavior, I think you'll love the Fall Guy. Think about a great episode of The Young & The Restless. 

In Fall Guy, you have two competing corporate executives, the two highest ranking people in this Anacott Oil Company based in San Diego, California, the President of the company played by Vera Miles and essentially the Executive Vice President played by Alan Feinstein, the CEO and COO of the company. 

Vivian Cabe (the President of Anacott Oil) simply doesn't like Mike Marsh (played by Alan Feinstein the Executive Vice President of Anacott Oil) to the point she no longer wants to work with him and has come up with this plan to get rid of him, either by having him arrested or finding a way to fire him, without being in breach of his contract.

Vivian's plan to get Mike fired, is to accuse him of fraud, embezzlement, and even money laundering. Even though it's Viv that has the so-called clean slush fund, which is like having a clean dumpster. The only way that is even possible, is to have nothing in the slush fund or in the dumpster. 

Mike Marsh (played by Alan Feinstein) knows that Mrs. Cabe wants his neck (to be clean) and wants him out, but I guess is too much of a man (again, to be clean) and won't go down without a fight, especially when he's innocent. Well, innocent of what she's accusing him of and doesn't go down without a fight. And hire private eye Frank Cannon, to come down to San Diego from Los Angeles to clear him.

What I think this is really about is Vivian is jealous that Mike Marsh is dating her daughter and not her. Think about it, Mike Marsh is 6'2, well-built, handsome, 34 at this point and is already executive vice president of a major California oil company. And Vivian is left with a cuck (to be frank) or a wimp (if you prefer) whose basically living off his wife. 

There's a line in the show where Vivian is trying to talk her daughter out of seeing Mike and she basically offers to pimp her out. And tells her that she would be happy to underwrite another young, good looking man, who looks good in tight pants, but only if her daughter dumps Mike. 

Again, this looks like a great soap opera episode to me. You have the great storyline, the great directing, the episode flies by, because it has a great start to it with one of the people that Anacott does business with and get their oil from, being murdered and it just takes off with one big scene after another. Which is one reason why Mike Marsh hires Frank Cannon, because he doesn't wan't to be framed for that murder, to go on top of everything else that he's facing. 

In Fall Guy, you also has the great insults between Viv and Mike, with Mike calling her the witch of the world (1970s TV lingo) and Viv calling him a cheap-chaser.  

You also have a scene in the end when Vivian whose made up with Mike. to the point that she agrees to pick of the costs of Frank Cannon's (played by William Conrad) investigation and agrees to pay his bill for him, but then tries to get out of it by mentioning Cannon's extra legal tactics that were used in his investigation. And then he mentions about her so-called laundered clean slush fund (which is like having a clean dumpster or clean toilet that's currently in use) so, they both have something on the other, which is how he gets her to cover his expenses for this trip. 

Vera looks great in it and gives a great performance and Alan Feinstein showing some excellent comedic timing, especially when he's angry and frustrated. One of my favorite TV episodes.

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