re: #250 The Vicious Babushka

OK: assuming the text VB has reproduced in #250 is real…..

A couple of interesting points on the Signing Statement:

1): agreed that this doc HAD to be written by someone else: it’s a magnitude too articulate to be Dim Donald’s personal “thoughts”.
1a): wonder who?

2): Most of its comments on the sanctions make it obvious that Trump is still leaning “pro-Russian”: I noticed he refers to “Tehran and Pyongyang” as “rogue regimes” - the Russian references seem to relate mostly to economic stuff, and mainly to “our European allies” and business dealings. It sounds like he is still miffed that we aren’t getting along better: (and also that we could/should nuke Tehran and Pyongyang and who’d care). Russian election meddling, I notice, gets short shrift…

3): actually, the grumping about Congress and “Presidential perogratives” is about the most “normal” bit of the SS - I can see many/most other Presidents adding the same gripe….

4): if that final sentence is real, its the most “Trumpian” part of the whole doc: I wonder why they left it in….?