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President Donald Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen, right, departs following a closed door meeting with the Senate Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill Sept. 19, 2017.
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President Donald Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen, right, departs following a closed door meeting with the Senate Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill Sept. 19, 2017.
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Donald Trump and Michael Cohen are very similar. They create many of their own problems, simply by talking too much.

When the FBI showed up with their warrants for Michael Cohen, I wonder if he used his famous “Says who” quote?

There’s something seriously wrong with a “boss” who ends up firing nearly everyone working for him, and usually a few days after publicly announcing what a good job they’re doing. Family members are excepted, of course.

Ivanka Trump has been spouting off about how “unfit” American kids are and how they don’t participate in sports, blissfully unaware that her corpulent father has failed to make one single appointment to the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition. Well, he’s only been in office for nearly a year and a half. These things take time.

Reading conservative comments about the left, they always use derogatory terms. Sore loser, snowflake, libtard, elite, tree hugger etc. I guess they feel inferior and need to put others down to feel superior. That must be why most of them drive big trucks, have big guns and tiny hands.

I don’t like all the hate people have for the President, being one of his supporters. And I don’t worry so much about the billionaire president as I do about the damage it does to the country. The level of hate that you see, all day every day coming from the media, and any social media site you explore is dangerous. Unless that’s the goal of the Trump haters, and then feel free to bring it on — my fingers still work fine.

I’m wondering how much thought went into the city’s new recycle container program. They are considerably larger than 75-to-80 percent of the residents need. Most of us don’t have room in our garages for such large containers, nor will we fill them with a week’s recycles. So, if we don’t put them out every week, we will have a smelly container in our garage. Also, we’ve been advised that we will be charged $60 for a replacement if a thief steals the container. In other words, we will be assessed $60 for someone else being a thief. I don’t think so! Enforcement of that program will simply cause most residents to discard their recyclables in the garbage rather than buy a new container. This is exactly what we should not want to happen.

Oklahoma spends 30 percent less on schools now than it did a decade ago. School buildings are in disrepair and textbooks are outdated. Following budget cuts, about 20 percent of Oklahoma school districts have gone to a 4 day week. But hey, go ahead and blame the teachers for wanting a better education for their students.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller for President, please.

The great majority of the American population never fear the FBI and the Department of Justice. That’s because most people don’t do anything criminal in their lives.

Trump doesn’t get to re-write the laws for how the FBI and the DOJ do their work. He can hate them all he wants, but he can’t control them to dismiss charges against him and his family and friends.

Samantha Dravis, a top aide to EPA Director Scott Pruitt has submitted her resignation. Ms. Dravis had not shown up for work since November, but did show up for trips to Morocco and Paris. Nice gig if you can get it.

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