He writes — on a day when (albeit separately, but nearly simultaneously) Mr. Cohen has directly implicated the (for the moment) still-sitting President  — in directing and coordinating his own predicate felonies, in open court, as follows:

“…I was on the radio… when breaking news came across the wire: the Paul Manafort jury had gone to the judge with a question, saying they were unable to reach a unanimous verdict on any count…. I was exultant, thinking that a hung jury would deal a serious blow…. Alas, it was not to be….

The only politically significant counts, as I understand it, relate to Cohen’s role in paying off Stephanie Clifford (“Stormy Daniels”) to keep quiet about her sexual encounter with Trump….”

 Putting aside John’s preposterously bad reading of the jury’s tea leaves, for a moment (and his treating Presidential felonies as simple popularity questions): that is simply… insane, John — even for you. It is a question of law — not of politics. It is a crime, by the sitting President — not some popularity question.

Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer of 20 years just agreed to plead guilty to felonies that add up to about five years in federal prison, and for some of those, he told the able judge in open court, he did them at the direction and behest of the President. His campaign chief is going to jail for the rest of his life — guilty of ten felonies.

And there is still much more to come.

Including a likely multi-count felony indictment of Don Jr.

In coo-coo Johnny land, though, this is barely even politically significant.

On the tarmac, headed (of course!) to a “Dear Leader” campaign rally tonight, the Cheeto just (post conviction) called Manafort a “good man“.

Let’s see how that nonsense plays out, in the court of popular opinion — ten time felons are generally not regarded as “good men”.