We were told not to think by Management until things settle down a bit and we are clear of any of the legal entanglements currently in motion. We couldn’t avoid some thoughts in the swirl of messaging about that trial up in New York. We were perplexed about the President’s remarks about “I think you are free on Wednesday!” when he seemed to taunt his challenger.

That took us right through lunch, and Splash had two martinis with his steak-and-cheese trying to puzzle it out. We warned him against cognition on current events, since that is prohibited in the jurisdiction across the big River.

Sometime after the second beverage, there came a shout from just under the lip of the picnic table where his laptop resides at the end of. a charging cord. “Wednesdays are when that trial takes a break! It means the President was saying that his challenger probably could be available on a day when his other tormentors are on recess1”

We were careful not to concentrate on that, though. Apparently some of the proceedings in New York leaked down to Washington even though it was Wednesday. Common sense is still legal on our side of the Potomac, but they decided to go ahead with some related testimony a couple hundred miles from the actual trial “Reading” is not the same act as “Thinking,” and “Reporting” something we read did not mean we had actually thought about it.

The tablet told us, without much thought, that a fellow named Robert Costello stopped by the Hill to chat with the House Judiciary Committee’s Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Government. We are not sure how that happens, since the weapons we used to use came in weights of around 500 pounds each.

Costello is apparently a former deputy chief of the US Attorney’s Criminal Division in Manhattan. We “read” that he repeatedly told Congress under oath that Mr. Trump had done nothing wrong when he was investigating the matter on the DoJ paycheck in 2018 when the LawFare campaign commenced in earnest six years ago.

His testimony was that another (now disbarred) attorney was lying about the whole thing. That individual would be convicted perjurer Michael Cohen. He may not be the strongest prosecution witness in a trial that has yet, at vast public expense, to identify a specific crime aside from running against Mr. Biden. We recall thinking about that before being told not to. We read- see how that works?- that apparently Cohen didn’t believe the allegations from former grown-up thespian Stormy Daniels about an intimate encounter some eighteen years ago. We read it was relevant because it was much more recent than the allegations in other segmenst of the legal storm about a famous Hollywood producer or a Supreme Court nominee’s high school parties.

The Legal Section has assigned an intern to sit at the end of the picnic table to ensure no inadvertent thought was going on. She waved her iPad saying we could read that Mr. Cohen apparently told Mr. Costello at the time that he thought unproven accusation by porn stars might incur negative coverage in the unbiased New York papers. He said, from what we read, that he “took care of it himself.”

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We agreed to let our intern provide the colorful pastel images of some of the participants for the Weather Report.

All that other stuff on the slide? We are relieved to say it is apparently all going on and we just read about it all. Maybe Management will let us think about it over the weekend. Aside from the legal maelstrom, we are about to transition into some real campaigning after we all get back from the Memorial Day break. And the pool is open where we can think and drink out of sight..

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