Trump’s Crime Family Gets Caught.

Remember this great scene in Godfather I where Peter Clemenza is mentoring Michael Corleone before Corleone assassinates the corrupt police captain and Virgil Sollazzo in The Bronx? At one point, Clemenza says in a kind of off-handed way, “Every ten years or so we need a war. Brings in fresh blood.”

I was thinking of this scene as I watched the judge in Atlanta hand the indictments to the lady who was going to return the documents to the Court Clerk, and I thought the Trump crime family was going to need some fresh blood.

On another level, I also began thinking about the fact that there seems to be a major scandal involving the President once about every fifty years. Go back fifty years from now and you have Watergate. Go back another fifty years and you have the Teapot Dome.

Fifty years before Harding and it’s not a scandal per se, but the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson was like something which had never happened before.

Know what? Every one of those great, dramatic events involved a Republican President, which either tells you something about what kind of politicians are attracted to the GOP or tells you something about why Democrats seem to enjoy investigating the malfeasance of Republicans, or both.

Incidentally, last night I watched CNN which had a camera mounted outside the…