Bloody relations
Meet Jerushah Duford, granddaughter of Billy Graham, niece of Franklin Graham and newest member of The Lincoln Women. Accusing Trump of "damage to the Gospel," she says she'll be actively working to elect Joe Biden. Another family comes apart.
Earlier this week we learned that Kellyanne Conway will leave her White House job and George Conway will leave the Lincoln Project as they attempt to salvage their family. The impetus came from their fifteen-year-old daughter Claudia, who is seeking to become an emancipated minor after "years of childhood trauma and abuse." Apparently she had to get their attention through Trump's least-favorite platform Tik-Tok, where she wrote in support of LGBTQ rights and Black Lives Matter. It beats cutting yourself, but I'm not sure putting "the Sybil and Basil Fawlty of the post-truth era" in a room with their daughter is going to fix the problem.
The family most likely to become an HBO series is unquestionably the Falwells of Lynchburg, Virginia. By now all the world knows the lubricious details -- the cabana boy, the affair with Jerry's wife Becki, the voyeurism, the blackmail resulting in a Florida hostel -- nothing very different from the Aimee Semple McPherson/Jimmy Swaggart playbook. And now Falwell has resigned or been canned as president of Liberty University, a distinguished academy of the illiberal arts.
Falwell has a close relationship with Trump, and no wonder. Both inherited profitable businesses from their fathers; on their own, it's doubtful they would have had the brains or ambition to open a fireworks stand. Not coincidentally, real estate and religion are frequently loci of money laundering, too. Both are Olympic-level hypocrites and liars, with libidos to match. If anybody bothers to ask, Falwell will be someone Trump can't quite remember, they met once, it was a long time ago, he just doesn't know him. Denied thrice, just like You-Know-Who, eh, Jerry?
Besides, Trump has family problems of his own that go far beyond Melania refusing to hold his hand. As Junior hailed his "perfect family" last night, an ex-friend of the First Escort revealed she has her on tape slanging Junior and Ivanka. (She must have forgotten Eric and Tiffany existed, which is understandable.) The ex-friend, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, was fired after organizing the inauguration that nobody showed up for, like that was her fault; her book will be out next week.
For all Junior's coke-fueled (allegedly) bluster, he's been privately telling friends, "We're losing, dude, and we're going to get really hurt when we lose." By which he means not his father's screaming fits but the possibility of criminal prosecutions under the Biden administration. Let's hope. Of course Junior has no friends, so the whole article is dubious. But if Junior does think he can run for office one day, he'll have to find a girlfriend less noisy than Kimberly Guilfoyle, whose screams frightened many horses last night. Did she think the engineers would add crowd noise, as they do with baseball games?
And is Eric the Very First Trump to take the Fifth? I think so! Another milestone for America's First Family of Crime.
Earlier this week we learned that Kellyanne Conway will leave her White House job and George Conway will leave the Lincoln Project as they attempt to salvage their family. The impetus came from their fifteen-year-old daughter Claudia, who is seeking to become an emancipated minor after "years of childhood trauma and abuse." Apparently she had to get their attention through Trump's least-favorite platform Tik-Tok, where she wrote in support of LGBTQ rights and Black Lives Matter. It beats cutting yourself, but I'm not sure putting "the Sybil and Basil Fawlty of the post-truth era" in a room with their daughter is going to fix the problem.
The family most likely to become an HBO series is unquestionably the Falwells of Lynchburg, Virginia. By now all the world knows the lubricious details -- the cabana boy, the affair with Jerry's wife Becki, the voyeurism, the blackmail resulting in a Florida hostel -- nothing very different from the Aimee Semple McPherson/Jimmy Swaggart playbook. And now Falwell has resigned or been canned as president of Liberty University, a distinguished academy of the illiberal arts.
Falwell has a close relationship with Trump, and no wonder. Both inherited profitable businesses from their fathers; on their own, it's doubtful they would have had the brains or ambition to open a fireworks stand. Not coincidentally, real estate and religion are frequently loci of money laundering, too. Both are Olympic-level hypocrites and liars, with libidos to match. If anybody bothers to ask, Falwell will be someone Trump can't quite remember, they met once, it was a long time ago, he just doesn't know him. Denied thrice, just like You-Know-Who, eh, Jerry?
Besides, Trump has family problems of his own that go far beyond Melania refusing to hold his hand. As Junior hailed his "perfect family" last night, an ex-friend of the First Escort revealed she has her on tape slanging Junior and Ivanka. (She must have forgotten Eric and Tiffany existed, which is understandable.) The ex-friend, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, was fired after organizing the inauguration that nobody showed up for, like that was her fault; her book will be out next week.
For all Junior's coke-fueled (allegedly) bluster, he's been privately telling friends, "We're losing, dude, and we're going to get really hurt when we lose." By which he means not his father's screaming fits but the possibility of criminal prosecutions under the Biden administration. Let's hope. Of course Junior has no friends, so the whole article is dubious. But if Junior does think he can run for office one day, he'll have to find a girlfriend less noisy than Kimberly Guilfoyle, whose screams frightened many horses last night. Did she think the engineers would add crowd noise, as they do with baseball games?
And is Eric the Very First Trump to take the Fifth? I think so! Another milestone for America's First Family of Crime.
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