Donald Trump’s Save America PAC paid over $108,000 for the first six months of 2023 to Hervé Pierre Braillard, a French-American fashion designer who is Melania Trump’s stylist for years, for “strategy consulting.” What kind of consulting justifies such high compensation?
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Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The Final Countdown" talk show on Radio Sputnik. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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It all costs obscene amounts of money. When Jackie O redid the White House. When Nancy redid the White House. When Mrs. Cheney redid the White House. The dinners for dictators and the bent knees when someone who chopped up a journalist shows up with an entourage and some hilarious stories of incarcerating an entire country’s female population? That’s a packet, I tell you straight. Every one of the six-car motorcades streaking through D.C. with a police detail of motorcycle cops and blocked off roads is a fortune is how many college tuitions paid in full? Every single photo-op to some devastation so that the president (with his sleeves carefully rolled up to the correct height) can be seen interfering with rescue efforts so that news people can interview him is a giant chunk of change thrown away.
“President Biden, sir? Sir? Let me take my tongue from out your backside — for just a moment — to ask you how important it is for you to be here behind your aviator glasses as Hawaii burns to the shoreline.”
“Absolutely vital. Any idiot with a smartphone coulda sent me videos showing me how bad this is, but I had to do something to distract everyone from the Nixonian drip, drip, drip of my upcoming impeachment when it finally becomes too obvious to ignore, even for lackbrain witlings like you media sucks, that I interfered with Ukraine.”
“Sir? Sir? Why can’t we brush it under the table. The press — the tough, fair-minded American press — has gone as soft as possible on you whenever possible. I mean, look at everything we’ve done and said about Trump. We’ve faulted him for everything but how he clips his toenails.”
“Yeah. Well, that kind of blew up in my face, didn’t it? The only way Trump can stay out of jail is by winning. And in order to win, his side is, absolutely, going to go and make a big stink about me taking kickbacks through my son from Ukraine to directly influence U.S. policy while I was vice president. Jesus. This is what they’re outraged over? Not me kicking Anita Hill in the goodies or screwing two generations of college students by making loans nondischargeable? Or how I’m a multiple plagiarist and a bad serial liar? THIS? Some hellhole country like Ukraine? This is what puts them in a fit? God forbid, Good Ol’ Smilin’ Joe carve a little piece of the pie for himself with some creative freelancing. Buncha vultures.”
“Sir? Sir? That was brilliantly said. We can’t help but agree. This is all Trump’s fault. Up next: Why did Donald Trump get Hunter Biden hooked on drugs? Was it merely casual sadism or does Trump have a plan to enslave the world?”
Is the $108k more or less than the cost of the astrologer?