* The one place where you really, really don’t want inexperience, incompetence, political pandering and Trumpian chaos is at the Department of Homeland Security. This is everybody’s security.
* Since when is “spy” a synonym for “investigate”? Since William Barr became attorney general.
* Here’s some context about America’s $20 trillion economy that is easily overlooked when talking about the robust stock market and the low unemployment rate. According to a recent NPR/Marist survey, a full 30 percent of Americans do something else for pay in addition to their fulltime jobs.
* “I know nothing about WikiLeaks.”–President Donald Trump, 2019. “Boy, I love reading WikiLeaks.”–Donald Trump, 2016.
* “TRUMP TOWER-MOSCOW is next.”–What Donald Trump tweeted after holding the Miss Universe pageant in Russia in 2013.
* “If you have a windmill anywhere near your house, congratulations, your house just went down 75 percent in value. And they say the noise causes cancer.” Another outtake from the Oval Orifice. No, you can’t make this stuff up.
* Amid all the collateral interest and controversy about Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, let’s not forget this: Timing is everything. Within an hour of the release of those infamous “Access Hollywood” tapes that could have been so damaging to the Trump candidacy, WikiLeaks had the Russian-hacked Clinton tapes out. And they kept on coming. It was more than enough to divert the news cycle from Trump’s sexual-assault braggadocio to the base-rallying, “Lock her up” chorus.