Month: May 2018

It’s pay-to- play is what they say that Michael Cohen’s selling
It’s Michael Avenatti who has brought all this to light
He’s selling access to Don Trump all secret; no one telling
For funding in the millions to his LLC held tight

AT&T, Korea Aero and Columbus Nova
Novartis Pharmaceuticals, the firms he suckered in
Vic Vekselberg, an oligarch who cozies up to Putin
Is backer of Novartis, billionaire, a Russian mover

Three million dollars, minimum, went into Cohen’s coffers
All undisclosed, the mystery grows, from there where did it travel?
Was Trump aware? Collusion there? What recompense was offered?
The quilt of deals that Cohen’s done is starting to unravel

‘Most all of Avenatti’s claims have since been verified
But how he accessed legally the data he’s revealed
Is still a mystery, unresolved, his source remains concealed
Nor will he tell, ‘though he knows well, Trump must be petrified

5/10/18

I guess my timid guess was really somewhat off the mark
I forecast yestereve that: sign the Iran deal, Trump wouldn’t
The deal, Iran Accord, just like I said, sign it he didn’t
But then he came on strong and called for sanctions very stark

We’ve little business doings there directly with Iran
But all our allied signatories really do a lot
And they intend their trade agreements clearly not to stop
Will we, then sanction all of them? Is that Trump’s foolish plan?

Israel and the Sunni states support what Trump has done
They fear Iran is cheating, though there is no evidence
Iran, a terrorism sponsor, threatens their defense
They really want regime change in a war that must be won

Sans the accord, how long before they’ve centrifuges spinning?
Sans the accord, how will we know the nukes they are creating?
No longer credible, our word, world leadership retreating
Will we be suckered into war that we’ve no chance of winning?

All that Obama did achieve, Trump feels he must erase
Obamacare, Paris Accord, this nuke deal with Iran
The risk of war, now, with Iran has soared much higher than
It ever really was before; a future grim we face

5/8/18

Black Cube’s in the news, an Israeli spy agency
No, it isn’t Shin Bet, independent and private,
They were hired by Trump to discredit the potency
Of opinions by two of Obama’s associates

The first, Colin Kahn and the other Ben Rhodes
They both were purveyors of matters opaque
In deriving the Iran deal and garnering the votes
Curtailing Iranian nuke weapons to make

This is all leading up to Trump’s big, big decision
To sign off, or not sign to continue the program
He’ll announce on the morrow with political wisdom
My guess is: he’ll not sign, but remain in the game

He will lay out conditions to toughen the accord
Discussed with our allies, to which they’ve agreed
If these were enacted then he would indorse
The modified deal as Trump’s good deal indeed

5/7/18

Today’s poelitic is by a guest poet, Rachel. Rachel is one of my accomplished granddaughters. She recently graduated Columbia University with a masters in education policy and is employed as an education-policy analyst by the New York public school system.

DACA de Mayo

A long time ago in Puebla – small town,
Un milagro occurred, prominently renowned,
Although ill-equipped, half-sized, starved, and poor,
Zaragoza’s small army took the French legion down.

This unlikely triumph sparked hope for a nation,
Pulling truncated dreams out of hopeless stagnation,
“We can hold strong our land, our history, sí, se puede,
And not choke on histories of foreign creation.”

In the other America battles press on,
Not unlike those of Cinco de Mayo, far gone,
Where young, outnumbered and voiceless factions
Fight to not have their DACA status withdrawn.

As we picnic today on fresh guava and peach,
Let’s hope the House sees the gross overreach
Of executive force, and not turn a blind eye,
Uphold the diverse fabric of our nation – impeach.

Rachel Cohen
May 5, 2018

Sekulow , Daniels, Giuliani and Flood
Hannity, Davidson, Cobb, Avenatti
Names in the news often not understood
Strands of the news that are tangled and knotty

Sekulow’s leaving his White House position
As Legal Counsel to be then replaced
By one Emmet Flood, who’s renown in the nation
Defending Bill Clinton’s impeachment disgrace

Though filling Jay’s post as White House Legal Counsel
He’s really replacing Ty Cobb on the team
That’s handling the Mueller and Cohen debacles
To be more aggressive than Ty It would seem

And then there is Rudy, Trump’s new mouthpiece legal
Together they privately reshaped Trump’s storyline
Telling that Trump really did pay Ms. Daniels
And Trump fired Comey o’er Rus. probe’s design

These bomb-shell admission on Hannity’s show
Advancing both cases against Trump and team
By old Giuliani, the man we’d once known
As a great prosecutor of highest esteem

Avenatti’s ecstatic: Giuliani has done,
Concerning his client, the adult-movies star,
All but ensured that his case he’ll have won
And Cohen will flip, not to be behind bars

In the non distant future these questions will pose:
Is a Pres., while in office beyond legal reach,
Subpoenaed before a grand jury? Who knows?
And when proven guilty, will House then impeach?

5/3/18

Forty nine questions were leaked to the Press
On topics presumably Mueller conveyed
Compiled by Trump’s lawyers; Don Trump to impress
That if interviewed, he’d be screwed, they’re afraid

The leak came last night ‘though in March they had met
Trump’s lawyers and Mueller on questions he’d ask
With Trump under oath, Mueller, answers would get
But the lawyers knew Trump wasn’t up to the task

They balked on an interview – Trump face to face
Ergo a subpoena this might then require
Most likely be challenged in court in that case
I’m sure Mueller’s ready whatever transpires

So who did the leaking and why do it now?
The evidence implicates Dowd as the source
Or an associate covering Dowd
It seems an attempt to reveal the probe’s course

But little, if anything, stood out as new
Collusion with Russia was one major theme
Obstruction of justice was obvious too
With lots of sub questions, no “gotcha’s” it seems

But still I am puzzled; what’s there to be gained
By leaking these questions especially now?
Oh well, not my first that I don’t understand
Nor will be my last as I ponder and plow

5/1/18