Morning Links | 28 Apr 20

(Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Good morning! It’s day 4,337 of the Yangtze Peril lock down and I admit that I’m starting to get a little tired of this. Generally speaking, I lean towards introvert and work from home full time, so being in “lock down” is just reinforcing my natural state. However, even I’m getting antsy about the duration of so-called social distancing restrictions and think it’s high time we reopen the country.

If there’s a riot for freedom, count me in.

Your links today include a restraining order issued against Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker over the extension of the state’s stay-at-home order; the “delusional beliefs” we’re indulging during the crisis; the Border Patrol at the beach in California; shocking information surfacing in the Michael Flynn case; and someone seeking to make a trophy out of one of the stars of “Duck Dynasty.”

time’s almost up

GIVEN WHAT WE’RE LEARNING, THERE BETTER BE PERP WALKS. They Knew… But Will They Face Justice? You should read the whole shocking thing.

Understand how vile this is. It had been proven by the time Trump was inaugurated that the FBI had found zero evidence Trump had colluded with Russia. (In just one specific case, they knew Lt. Gen. Flynn had done nothing, nada, zilch, zero wrong in talking to the Russian ambassador. Yet Comey and McCabe still sent Peter Strzok to the White House to entrap Flynn.)

What the newly unveiled evidence shows is the FBI knew Trump was not acting with Russia. Instead, Russia had been feeding disinformation to Steele, who was working for Hillary Clinton. This was disinformation designed to undermine Trump to Hillary’s benefit. And yet Trump and his associates, family and friends were the ones hounded for another three years.