Real Characters Episode 22 Comey's War

                FBI director Jim Comey has seen the improbable happen; Donald Trump has just won the Republican nominee to run against Hillary Clinton for President of the United States.  At this moment, he vows to himself that he will make sure President-nominee Trump never becomes President Trump.  He calls in two of his most trusted employees, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page and makes Strzok the lead counsel in the mission to take down Donald Trump.  In addition to them,  Comey has put together a kabal of people with the same mission in mind. 

                In the end, despite their best efforts, they fail.  When Donald Trump becomes President Trump, Comey’s group each call him in a panic about what’s going to happen to them.  Comey tells them all the same thing.  He tells them all that none of them will go down for this.  He points out that people like Hillary Clinton have put together this deep swamp state and have turned the Department of Justice into a liberal mafia.   He reassures them that this network of influence was not built overnight and it cannot be dissolved in four years. So even if now President Trump finds out about all they did to illegally spy on him and paint him as a Russia spy, he won’t be able to prosecute.  Comey adds that although Trump is a billionaire, they have multiple millionaires and billionaires on their sides and all of their power, influence and capital will go to making sure that there are no ramifications for the entrapment and attempt to sabotage a sitting United State’s President. 

                Now that Comey’s original goal to stop him from being president has failed, he comes up with another idea.  He decides he’s going to get close to President Trump and take detailed memos and notes on the conversation.  On January 6, 2019, Jim Comey goes to Trump Tower to meet with the President-elect.  He has already read a dossier he thinks was written by a trusted FBI informant, Christopher Steele.  In reality, it was written by Glenn Simpson of Fusion GPS who was paid by Hillary Clinton through a law firm named Perkine Coie to dig up oppositional research on Trump.  One of the allegations in the dossier is that when Trump was in Moscow, he attended an event in a hotel room where prostitutes were giving Golden Shower shows.  Comey doesn’t bother verifying the information.  Steele did good work on the FIFA corruption scandal so naturally assumes this was good work too.  Technically he’s supposed to take the information and put it through the Woods procedure.  That is just an official name to mean sending it to Britain, New Zealand, Canada and Australia to see if their counterintelligence divisions can verify it.  Comey does none of this.  His way of verifying it is to get the President to offer information that is only found in the dossier.  He states “Mr. President-elect, I just want you to know that there is a dossier circulating alleging that while you were in Russia for the Miss Universe pageant, there was an incident with a prostitute in a hotel room.  It’s not a big deal; we’ve determined these allegations to be salacious and unverified.”

                “I don’t know what they’re talking about.  When I was in Moscow for that trip, I was only there for like 39 hours and almost all of them were in business meeting with a business man over there.”

                “So you’re not aware of a prostitute coming to the hotel that you were staying?”

                “Not all”

                “Sir, it’s important that you tell me.  We need to get ahead of this.  I’m here to help you.”

                “All my time was spent with a man who I can assure you is not a hooker.”

                “Alright, that’ is what I thought sir.  Like I said, I believe this information to be salacious and unverified.”

                Comey returns to his home and writes a memo about his meeting with Donald Trump carefully and diligently documenting everything that happened.  As he’s writing it, one of his close group of people that is involved in the conspiracy asks, “Sir, should we really be documenting this?  I mean what if someone reads these memos?  It lays out how we tried to set up and take down the President of the United States.”

                “That is never going to happen.  I have contingencies set up to make sure nobody ever reads them.  I know how to cover my ass and be completely free of culpability.  Trust me, I know what I’m doing.’

                “Are you going to classify them?”

                “Not yet”

                “What do you mean?”

                “The order of things is very important here.  Everything is going to be revealed shortly, don’t worry.  The staffer leaves Comey to his memos.  In all, Comey will write seven memos.  He calls a friend of his, Daniel Richards and says, “Hey Dan, Jim”

                “Hey Jim, what can I do for you?”

                “I’m going to send you some memos of me meeting with the president.  I need you to give them to the media.”

                “Why can’t you do it?”

                “it’s illegal if I do it.”

                “So, why isn’t illegal if I do it?”

                “Because after you leak it, I’m going to classify them.  I’m then going to hire you as my personal lawyer so that you are not legally obligated to reveal anything due to attorney client privilege.”

                “Also, as the FBI director’s personal lawyer, I get security clearance so you are not culpable for leaking the memos to me.”

                “Now you’re getting it.”

                “I must say that is a genius plan.”

                “What else did you expect?” Comey’s voice had a tinge of sarcasm in it but Richmond thought that Comey actually did believe he was a genius, thus always had genius plans.  Richmond hung up the phone complicit in Comey’s overt act to shield himself from culpability if it ever comes out what he did to Trump. 

                Comey gives the memos to Richmond and then Richmond gives it to the media.  Comey then calls together a meeting with Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, who are now having an affair because of all the time they’ve spent together the last couple months trying to make the President’s term a living hell.  The meeting is about which memos they should declare classified.  This is odd because the very people that are most culpable for the underhanded tactics these memos reveal, are the ones meeting to see what can be shared.  Strzok says, “What about Memo 2”

                “I gave it to Daniel and he’s giving it to the media.”

                Page inquires, “Which one is that?”

                “That one makes sure that Trump doesn’t have his guard up.  I went to Trump tower and told him that he wasn’t under investigation.”

                “So you lied to the President?” Page responds

                “Yes I did but sometimes you have to protect POTUS (President of the United States) from himself.”

                “What did he say?”

                “He asked me if I could investigate his satellite officers because it would be good to know if any of them are in bed with the Russians.”

                “How did you respond?”

                “That it was up to him.  I just wanted to be clear that people don’t misconstrue what I’m doing.”

                “But they aren’t.  They think you’re investigating the President and you are.”

                “I understand that but I don’t want others to understand that.  I want people who think that to be shamed by their peers.  It will be a hell of a social media advertizing campaign but we can do it.”

                Strzok got the meeting back on track with, “What about Memo 3?”

                “That’s the one about the FISA orders.  I think we should classify that one.”

                “I agree.  Did you release it to Dan?”

                “No, and nobody is going to let him know that.  The FISA could hurt us because we used knowingly false information to obtain FISAs on a lot of people.  That one doesn’t get leaked. “

                “Alright, so did you just give it to Dan?”

                “No, I leaked them to three people.  None of them are media sources so if shit hits the fan, we’ll keep the narrative that it’s leaks to the media that’s illegal.  That way I will be cleared of any wrongdoing since I didn’t leak to the media.  I leaked to people who then leaked to the media.”

                Page chimes in, “Let’s make sure that we’re all on the same page.  There are seven memos.  (1) Trump Tower briefing about the dossier but telling him not to worry about it.  (2) Dinner in the green room.  The needed loyalty and expected loyalty.  This is where Trump tells you to investigate Russian collusion with his satellites.  (3) White House meet and greet and the FISA information (4) Oval Office homeland threat briefing and the Mike Flynn firing (5) Trump calls you to check in (6) Lifting the cloud about the incorrectly marked secret document at your house and (7) Another phone call about lifting the cloud.”

                “That’s correct.  All of them are FOUO (For Official Use Only).”

                Shortly after this meeting, Comey is fired as FBI director.  On July 29, 2017, a series of texts between Lisa Page and Peter Strzok are declassified and released talking about how they, in cooperation with the Obama White House, tried to set up and stop Donald Trump from being president.  All of them are fired from the FBI for these revelations.  In public, Comey will admit that the President can fire him for any reason he wants.  In fact, he explains, he doesn’t even need a reason.  In private, he is fuming.  The three of them are once again meeting but this time Comey doesn’t seem in control.  He has been ranting and Stzok replies, “Calm down, we took precautions.  Hillary and Obama still control the DOJ so none of us will go to jail.”

                Comey rejoins, “I don’t care if I go to jail for a couple years.  It’s federal prison so it’s not a big deal.  Aside from that, if I go to jail for trying to take down a racist president, then I will be a hero in jail.  I will by a martyr and everyone will want to hire me when I get out.”

                “So, why are you upset?”

                “I’ve been humiliated.  Nobody is going to hire me now.  My reputation is all I have.  It’s my name and now it’s being dragged through the mud by that bully.  This is devastating to us.”

                “Us?  How do you think I feel?  My marriage was ruined by this.”

                Page looks back and forth and wonders if Strzok forgot that she was in the room.  Comey continues, “I can’t believe he stripped me of my power.  This isn’t the end.  I’m going to set up a special counsel to specifically investigate him for Russian collusion.  I have to call Andy McCabe, he can get it done.”

  There is more ranting back and forth and then Comey leaves and calls McCabe to set up a special counsel to investigate the president and everyone that works for him.  It will go on for over two years and the council will be headed by former FBI director Bob Mueller and several people who worked for, or is closely tied to, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.  Andy McCabe made it happen and even though he would tell people that there was no effort to obstruct the investigation, including the firing of Jim Comey, the Mueller probe would expand its scope to exactly that.  Shortly after being fired, FBI officials arrive at Comey’s house asking if he has any of the memos in his house.  He refuses and says that he doesn’t have them. 

                When Mueller finds no evidence of collusion and asks newly appointed attorney general Bill Barr to decide about obstruction, Barr becomes suspicious just how this Russian collusion investigation started.  He quickly determines that McCabe was right; there was no effort to obstruct the investigation in any way, let alone by Donald Trump.  In fact, Comey’s memos cleared the president of obstruction since President Trump asked him to investigate and Comey lied and told him he wasn’t under investigation.  How do you obstruct an investigation that you’re not even aware exists?

                Bill Barr speaks to inspector General Horrowitz and appoints Jeff Durham to investigate the origins of the Russian collusion investigation.  After a couple months, Horrowitz calls Barr and says, “Sir, I have finished my investigation.”

                “Alright, what did you find?”

                “Well as you know the FBI has to report any knowledge of classified information being leaked to anyone.”

                “I do know that”

                “Well Comey didn’t tell anyone that he leaked his memos to his lawyers.  He violated the terms of conditions of his FBI employment.”

                “That’s true but I’m not sure it’s enough for me to go to court with.”

                “There were three crimes that were committed during the course of this investigation.  The first is there were leaks of classified information to the Washington Post.  Also, Mike Flynn’s conversation with Ambassador Kislayek was leaked illegally to the Washington Post and finally the material misrepresentation to the FISA court.”

                “And Comey is responsible for all three?”

                “No, there is no evidence that Jim Comey leaked any classified information to the media; Washington Post or otherwise.”

                “Alright”

                “With that said, I would recommend that you prosecute.”

                “Well, before we get to that conclusion.  Let’s go through all the information.  Did you look into his memos?”

                “I did”

                “What did you find?”

                “Comey told me that they were personal notes” he said dispassionately

                “I take it you don’t believe that.”

                “No, and I have evidence”

                “Let’s hear it”

                “When I interviewed McCabe, he referred to them as a record of Comey’s official correspondence with the President as his role as FBI director.”

                “So, it is an official FBI document, it’s not personal.”

-              “I’m not done”

                “Don’t hold back on my account”

                “Even after Comey was fired, he called the FBI and insisted that the memos be part of the FBI record.”

                “Despite that, he still tries to tell us that they were for personal use only”

                “Did anyone else comment on this?”

                “Yes, lower level members of the investigation, Baker and Rybicki all took the memos as official FBI records.  They both claim that Comey never referred to them as personal memos to them nor did they hear anyone else say that or Comey tell anyone that.”

                “You’ve been busy.”

                “Just to put a cherry on top, Bill Priestep said they viewed the memos as an FBI work product by the director in an official capacity.”

                “It sounds like the FBI is turning on each other.”

                “Yea, they’re all worried that they’re going down.  The upper level people are very well protected but the lower level people are scared shitless.”

                “It seems like you thoroughly disproved that these memos were personal rather than an official FBI record.”

                “I did.  It’s clear that Comey disseminating the memos to non-government officials is a blatant violation of his FBI employment agreement.  That’s why I think you should prosecute.”

                “He didn’t really do anything illegal.  Violating the terms of his FBI agreement is bad policy but not illegal.  He leaked the memos to his lawyers but he gave them security clearance and technically the memos weren’t classified when he gave it to them.  It seems he got other people to break the law for him.  I don’t think there’s enough for court.  I may prove in court that these memos are official FBI record but so what?  This case is a loser.”

                “Well, I’m disappointed to hear that sir and respectfully disagree.”

                “Comey wants to go to court.  He wants a judge to clear him so he can gloat.  I’m not going to give him that satisfaction.  I encourage you to release your report to the public.  Excoriate and chastise Comey for all the things he did that was against FBI policy and practice.  The whole Mueller probe started because his colleagues were upset he got fired.  Have your report prove why he was fired.  As for actual legal prosecution, this isn’t the fight.  Perhaps the FISA abuse will be what finally nails him in court but I’m sorry this isn’t it.  You will get your chance to humiliate and smear his name.  I think that is worse to him than prison because he’s a pretentious, arrogant sociopath.”

                “That’s a fair compromise.”

                Inspector General Horrowitz takes Barr’s advice and releases his reports condemning Comey in no uncertain terms.  All Comey focuses on is that part that says he didn’t leak to the media.  He gloats and brags about being cleared but other people read the entire 83 page report that talks about the shady things he did that violated FBI policy.  Comey, however, didn’t get to where he was without friends.  Media member Ben Wittes gets on the TV and criticizes the inspector general for declaring that Comey leaking non-public information starts a dangerous precedent.  Wittes took it as a message to the FBI that if you’re an agent, you need to keep your mouth shut.”

                Horrowitz saw the clip and is perplexed.  He asks the TV, “The FBI is supposed to be able to keep classified information classified.  Their job is to keep their mouth shut on non-public information.  Besides, Comey has definitely not been silent.  That attention media-whore is constantly on every mainstream media network attacking the president.   Are people really dumb enough to not remember their own personal experience?  Just ask yourself, if you’ve ever seen Comey commenting on something.”

                As the interview continues, Wittes claims that Trump obstructed justice with the Mike Flynn investigation.  Again, Horrowitz says exasperatingly, “How can you say that when McCabe even said there was no effort to obstruct.  Do you have a memory?”

                The inspector general gets back to work on the FISA court abuse.  He is disappointed that Barr didn’t prosecute but that was a frustration that came with the job.  He quickly forgot about it and moved on to the next investigation. 

                Bill Barr is reviewing notes and documents trying to paint a narrative that can win in court.  He knows this is a battle that will need a lot of time and January 2021 is too soon.  If there is any hope to get to the bottom of the entrapment, set up and attack on President Trump, President Trump will have to win re-election.  Otherwise the new president will probably fire Barr and Durham and sweep the whole conspiracy and scandal under the rug like it never happened.  He is deeply entrenched in the fight but when he puts his ear to the ground, he can see how frustrated the president’s supporters are that nobody that opposes Trump is in jail right now.   

Larry the Billionaire Episode 26 Mother'sw for their kid's education

                Larry was on the hunt again. This time he was being sent to Los Angeles.  Given what Larry did in his off time, Los Angeles was a good place for him.  To be honest, he hated how fake people in LA were. He didn’t like how materialistic and pretentious they were.  He had spent his adult life in New York and, to an extent, New Yorkers believed New York to be the best city in the world.  When people left New York, however, people were surprised but they were supportive and respected people’s wishes.  It’s true that some did this because they assumed the person couldn’t cut it in New York, other believed they would come back, but for whatever reason, people didn’t get negative feedback for leaving.  In LA, they took it as a personal insult when you left.  New Yorkers were blunt but they were nice if you knew how to talk to them.  People in Los Angeles are condescending and vicious no matter how you talked to them.  Still though, he was on Sunset Boulevard drinking.  While drinking, he kept his ear out to see if someone voiced an unaffordable item that they may be willing to do scandalous things for. 

                Yeketerina had grown up in the Midwest.  Even though her parents were first generation Western Ukrainian, she was fluent in the language having graduated from Ukrainian school.  Her parents divorced when she was young but her stepdad was a positive male role model in her life that helped keep her on a straight path.  After getting her nursing degree, she moved to Los Angeles hoping to carve her own path as she stayed in her home state for school so this was the first real taste of independence without having her parents’ home a half hour away.  She quickly got a job at a hospital and found a place to live.  Like many people that move to the west coast, she developed an obsession for sushi.  At 5’8” she was on the taller end for a girl with a slender body, short light brown hair and brown eyes with bangs that made her look much younger than her 36.  She had a hard day at work as she lost a patient so she was in the bar to try to drown her sorrows.  She knew that there would be womanizers to hit on her so she purposely kept her hand on the table and spread out hoping people would see her wedding ring.  She had a two year old child at home but her husband was focusing on him now. 

                As she predicted, a man came up to her and asked, “How is a girl as beautiful as you sitting at a bar all by yourself.”

                She smiled politely and turned to the guy flashing her wedding ring saying, “Because I want to.”

                The guy took the hint and backed off.  This happened one more time before a bald man walked over to her and sat next to her.  He stated, “I’m not hitting on you but if you look over every now and then you can make it look like we’re here together.  That way the womanizers won’t bother you.”

                Yeketerina smiled and got up and uttered, “Stand up, give me a hug don’t just sit down without greeting me.”

                Her tone made it seem like they were old friends and Larry caught the hint.  He got up and hugged her and Yeketerina said in his ear, “If you say anything flirtatious, I will make a scene.”

                Larry sat next to her and ordered a drink.  Every now and then he looked over and mouthed words and Yeketerina picked up the hint and did the same.  Their fake conversation worked as no guys bothered her again.  After a couple drinks, Yeketerina was more relaxed and voiced, “Alright, maybe we should have a real conversation, I’m Yeketerina”

                “Larry”

                “Nice to meet you”

                “Likewise, so you look like you’re here to forget something.  Has it worked?”

                “Not really but it’s an occupational hazard”

                “What is it that you do?”

                “I’m a nurse.   You?”

                “This and that.  Mostly finance and real estate.”

                “Alright, a little cryptic.”

                “You mentioned occupational hazard.  You’re a nurse.  I can only assume that you lost a patient.”

                “Correct” she replied betraying that she was impressed in her voice. 

                “Do you want to talk about it?”

                “Well, he’s been in and out for a while now.  He died of an overdose on morphine.”

                “I’m sorry.”

                “Yea me too.  This shit may not be happening much longer.  Oklahoma just had a court case where Johnson and Johnson had to pay out a huge settlement.”

                “564 Million I believe”

                “Yes, you are familiar”

                “I am, I’m just not exactly sure that the case will help stop what happened to your patient.”

                “What do you mean? Now the government may start regulating it.”

                “You really think that the government can regulate drugs better than doctors can?”

                “Well, there are some bad doctors.”

                “And there aren’t bad politicians or people who work in government jobs?”

                Yeketerina took a deep breath.  “Yea I guess you have a point.”

                “It sucks to say but you have a better shot with doctors that understand the medical implication of the drugs regulating it than a government bureaucrat that has little to no knowledge of this.”

                “I don’t know.  I see your point but drug companies do seem to peddle this stuff and pressure doctors to write prescriptions”

                “And lobbyists never pressure politicians to push an agenda?”

                “I get your point.  You don’t seem too keen on the government.”

                “I’m not”

                “So are you a conservative?”

                “I am”

                “Do you think that the media is fake news?”

                “I wonder how people can deny that at this point.  They used to hide it well but since President Trump became president, they’ve stopped hiding it and overly expose their agenda and their retardation.  Now, people just feed them shit knowing they’ll run with it without vetting it.  Hell, there were three examples just today.”

                “Okay, I’ll bite, give me examples.”

                “Lawrence O’Donnell on MSNBC ran with a story about Donald Trump getting a loan from Deutsche Bank and the co-signers on the loan were Russian oligarchs.”

                “Yea, as much as I was raised to hate Russians, I’ve given up on this Trump Russian collusion thing.”

                “Why were you raised to hate Russians?”

                “I’m Ukrainian”

                “I take it west of Kiev then.”

                “You know your stuff.”

                “Yes, I do.”

                “What nationality are you?”

                “Greek”

                “Ah, I dated a Greek in high school”

                “I hope he treated you right.”

                “He did.  That was actually the problem; he was too nice.  I wanted him to be more aggressive and push things more.”

                “Yea, nice guys finish last.”

                “Yea, also, I was a year older.  When he was a junior and I was a senior, it was okay but when I was in college and he was in high school, it was too weird.  I mean, he drove up to visit me every weekend if I didn’t go home but I just couldn’t”

                “I understand.”

                “Yea, he did too.  A little too much if you ask me.”

                Larry laughed.  “Anyway, the story obviously was false.  The President is contemplating a defamation suit against him now.  O’Donnell issued a retraction and an apology saying it was a single source and he should’ve vetted it like they pretend to do with all information.”

                “Pretend to” she said skeptically

                “Yes, ‘pretend to’ otherwise they are just really incompetent about vetting stories.”

                “Well, at least he retracted it”

                “Under threat of legal action”

                “You said three”

                “Washington Post reported that an author JD Vance was a white supremacist”

                “Ah, the whole everyone’s a racist thing”

                “Yup”

                “What was the book about?”

                “How small towns are collapsing”

                “That seems pretty neutral”

                “Welcome to the new America where even center is vilified and attacked.  The only thing acceptable is radical left or else they will try to get you fired and excommunicated.”

                “Especially in this city.”

                “Yup, but WAPO retracted the story.”

                “He had to have said something that they twisted around”

                “He said that we have a problem because we aren’t having enough kids to replace us.”

                “Well, that’s true the birth rate is way down in America”

                “Yea, but the Washington Post thought he meant white people.”

                “That would make the Washington Post racist”

                “Exactly, and when it came out that JD Vance is in a biracial marriage with a mixed son, it destroyed their argument.”

                “There’s that great vetting and research thing you were talking about.”

                “Well, I got to say you’re making a believer out of me.  Don’t hold back now, let’s hear the last one.”

                “NBC’s Ken Dilanian said a new law says that if military personnel or diplomats have kids abroad, the kids aren’t citizens.  He claims the US Customs and Immigration division want to align themselves with the state department.”

                “Oh, this is because President Trump wants to end anchor babies.”

                “Loosely”

                “Yea, but that doesn’t make sense.  Blatant misinterpretation of what the President said.”

                “Well, there’s a little more meat to this than that.  The policy is about adopting foreign kids.  The adopted kid isn’t a citizen but if you parent a child it still is. He admitted that he misunderstood and retracted it.”

                “I don’t know how I feel about it.  I think if someone wants to adopt a foreign baby, they should be able to.  I guess they’re just saying that since the adopted parents are American, that doesn’t mean the kid should be.  I guess you should still need to go through the proper channels.  I don’t know”

                “It’s debatable.  I agree with the policy but the point is that he lied about what the policy was.”

                They continue to talk and soon the conversation gets to Yeketerina’s kid.  She articulates, “The schools here suck.  Me and my husband don’t make a lot of money.  We can’t really afford private school.  My high school boyfriend was kind of a rich kid.  He spent his pre-high school education in Montessori school and then went to a Jesuit high school.  He swore by Montessori.  Problem is it’s ridiculously expensive.  I wish I could win the lottery or something so I could put my kid in Montessori.  They do have one here.”

                “Would you say you’d do anything for your kid?”

                “Of course.  He’s my entire world.”

                “Getting your kid a good education is one of the most important things.”

                “I agree” Yeketerina said with some hesitancy in her voice as she had a feeling Larry was getting at something.

                “At the risk of you making a scene, I want to ask you a very insensitive question.”

                Yeketerina looked back and forth and responded hesitantly, “Ok”

                “I don’t want to blow up your marriage, but if you spend one night with me and let me fuck you, I’ll pay for your kid to go to Montessori.”

                “You should go.” She rejoined sternly. 

                Larry took out his card and placed it on the bar and pronounced, “Okay” and got up and walked to the other end of the bar. 

                Yeketerina groaned and ordered another drink.  Larry closed his tab and left the bar.  After he left, Yeketerina seriously contemplated the offer.  She found herself taking his card and putting it in her purse.  She found herself not telling her husband about the encounter.  After a week, she called the number on the card on her lunch break shaking her head at what she was doing.  Larry answered, “This is Larry”

                “Hi, ummm, I met you at a bar last week.  My name is Yeketerina, I don’t know if you remember me.”

                “Of course I remember you.  Pretty Ukrainian nurse.”

                Yeketerina smiled.  If Larry didn’t remember her, she was going to hang up.  “Is it just for one year?”

                “That wouldn’t really make sense.  I’ll take care of the developmental years.  There are no Montessori high schools in LA.”

                “One night”

                “Yes, one night but there are caveats”

                “I knew it was too good to be true.”

                “The caveats are you need to be tested for STD’s.  I obviously will be too and you need to have an IUD installed.”

                “I would agree to both of those.  In fact, I kind of insist.  I work at a hospital so that’s simple.”

                “I know.”

                “How do I know you’re not lying?”

                “Money goes into escrow and you sign a contract”

                Larry knew that the contract isn’t enforceable but it had been his experience that it made women feel more at ease when he signed a contract.  “I agree.”

                “Great, I’ll take the night flight to LA.  I’ll come by your hospital tomorrow to get myself tested.”

                “Sounds good.”

                “Which hospital do you work at?”

                Yeketerina told him and a few days later she found herself in a hotel room with Larry.  She explained, “I’m not this type of girl.  Can we have a conversation before we do this so I don’t feel dirtier than I feel now?”

                “What do you want to talk about?”

                “Please pick a topic, this is awkward for me.”

                “Well the Inspector General report on Comey just came out.”

                “I heard about that.  I hear it was kind of a dud.”

                “Yes and no, Comey has been bragging that it said that he didn’t leak any sensitive information to the media.”

                “Is that what he was accused of?”

                “That among other things.  In March 2017, he testified to congress about how often he’s supposed to brief them on the sensitive investigations he had open.  A Congresswoman named Elise Stefanik asked him point blank when he was supposed to brief them and Comey admitted every three months.”

                “So what’s the problem?”

                “The investigation into Trump had been going on for eight months by then and he never told them in his quarterly reports.”

                “Why not?”

                “He was asked that and he responded it was too sensitive”

                “Didn’t you say that he’s supposed to brief them on sensitive investigations?  So how is it too sensitive?”

                “Exactly”

                “How did he not get charged for that?”

                “Well, it’s a policy that is done in practice by action.  It’s not written down or an actual law.”

                “Oh, still shady”

                “Agreed”

                “So, the report cleared him.”

                “No, that’s why IG Harrowitz recommended that they indict him but the justice department said ‘no.’”

                “What did he do wrong then?”

                “He didn’t leak to the media but he did give sensitive information to other people that weren’t cleared so they could leak to the media.  Harrowitz said Comey disseminated information improperly and contrary to FBI policy.” 

                “Oh, so that’s bad”

                “He went on to say that he illegally sought ways to hire a special counsel and ignored all legal avenues to a special counsel.”

                “Now it’s sounding scandalous”

                “Yea, and he determined that Comey violated FBI , DOJ and the terms of his employment agreement by leaking that information and memos”

                “It’s like the Mueller report.  He was cleared of the big thing they investigated but there are some things in there that are a little damning”

                “Yea, I’m actually worried I’m being hypocritical thinking this is a big deal but the Mueller Report was a complete exoneration of Trump.  It’s not over though.  This was just the leaking of his memos.  The FISA stuff is yet to come.”

                “What do you think that will find?”

                “Well, we know that in January 2017, Comey was briefed on interviews done with dossier author Christopher Steele.  The FBI interviewed Steele’s Russian sources and found them completely unreliable.  This is a problem because despite this, Comey still used the information from the unreliable Russian source to renew the FISA on Carter Page three times.”

                “It seems like the Russians are just playing the media, FBI, CIA and DOJ for fools.  They would do something like that.”

                “There’s the Western Ukrainian girl again.”

                “Damn right.  Alright, I need to get this over with.”

                “Oh, that was so sexy” Larry said sarcastically as he stripped himself. 

                - Yeketerina walked towards him and Larry got up smiling.  Yeketerina didn’t smile back but said, “Well, you and I have some business”

            She walked over to the table and bent over it looking back at Larry.  Larry approached her as Yeketerina jumped onto the table crouching down.  Larry jammed his penis into her from behind and reached around.  Yeketerina grabbed onto his wrists as Larry humped her.  At first Yeketerina moaned as her vagina had yet to send fluids to make Larry’s penis slide in easier but once the plumbing worked, Yeketerina moaned in pleasure.  She said, “You know I wouldn’t let my Greek boyfriend fuck me when we dated so now you get to take it out on me.”

Larry humped more intensely now accepting Yeketerina’s invitation.  Yeketerina then kicked her leg back pushing Larry out of her.  She hopped onto the bed and straddled the pillows with her upper body curled inward and her hands below her.  Larry hovered over her and placed his hands in front of her head as he dropped his hips down lunging his penis down into the rear of Yeketerina’s vagina.  Larry rammed himself in a little surprised at how hard he was going.  He pulled out and turned Yeketerina onto her back and penetrated her from the front.  Yeketerina wrapped her legs around his waist as Larry’s mouth and hands explored her neck, mouth, breasts and legs.  Again, Yeketerina pushed him off but this time with her hands.  Larry stood up and Yeketerina got to her feet, looked up into his eyes, smiled and then dropped to her knees.  She opened her mouth and gripped Larry’s penis in her right hand and pulled it into her mouth.  She used her left hand to cup his scrotum as she voraciously bobbed her head back and forth sending Larry’s penis into the back of her mouth while her left hand played with his testicles.  Larry put his right hand on the back of her head and took a handful of her light brown hair moaning in delight. 

            Yeketerina picked up the intensity and Larry shortly thereafter overwhelmed Yeketerina’s taste buds with the taste of his semen.  She kept going until Larry’s scrotum was out of bullets to send through his shaft and swallowed the remaining contents in her mouth.  She got up and kissed Larry on the mouth.  Larry returned the kiss knowing that it would taste like a combination of cigarettes and semen but it was a reflex.  After they made out, Yeketerina got dressed and walked out of the room.  She didn’t want to beg him for it.  Either he was lying or he wasn’t.  She didn’t need a verbal confirmation.  She checked with the school and found out that the money had been transferred and Larry had set up a fund to release the money every year.  Yeketerina couldn’t touch the funds as it was only to be used for tuition into the school.  That was fine for her.  Now, she just needed to explain to her husband how she got the money. 

            Her explanation seemed a little far-fetched but she told him that she was having a girl’s weekend in Vegas.  She drove the three hours to Vegas and stayed at a hotel.  Despite what she told her husband though, she didn’t gamble.  She just enjoyed her peace and quiet and she took out the card and called Larry.  Larry answered and Yeketerina pronounced, “I wanted to say thank you.”

            “Thank you.  You earned it.  We had a deal.”

            “I know, but, it was very generous nonetheless.”

            “Well, I was in a position to help.  I’m not sure how much longer I will be since we can’t seem to elect a president that doesn’t love spending money we don’t have.”

            “I’m not sure I follow.”

            “Our national debt is out of control.  Spending across the board is up from discretionary to military to entitlement.  There are no cuts and we simply can’t afford it.  We are really screwing the next generation who will have to fit the bill.  You can’t tell me with a straight face that people will never want their money back.”

            “Does this have anything to do with the tax cuts?”

            “Not directly.  Tax revenues are at an all time high so the tax cuts worked perfectly.  People had more money.  They were more motivated to move up in income brackets so they did so despite paying a lower percentage the real number was actually higher than they would have paid if the motivation wasn’t there.  Just like when a regular person gets a raise, however, the government started spending more so the raise didn’t really work.”

            “You’d think that since Trump was a businessman he’d understand that.’

            “You would but congress is the one that passes the budget.  Still, President Trump should have vetoed it.”

            “Sorry I rushed out on you.”

            “I actually preferred it.  Not to sound callous but I’d much prefer you lose my card.  Like I said, I don’t want to blow up your life.  We made a transaction; it’s over so I’m not sure if any good can come from talking to each other.”

            “I actually agree with that.  I was thinking the same thing but I thought I’d sound ungrateful if I said it.”

            “Well, sleep easy knowing that you’re not being ungrateful.  You’re a woman of your word and did exactly what you said you’d do.”

            “And you’re a man of your word and fulfilled your end of the bargain.”

            “There, now you can sleep peacefully next to your husband”

            “I will do that.”

            Yeketerina hung up the phone and threw away the card.  When she got back, she said that one of the girls she went with had rich parents that gave her a thousand dollars that she turned into much more as she kept winning in game after game and she was betting big since it wasn’t her money.  Her husband was shocked but when she told him that she put the money in a trust for the education, he was a little upset she didn’t consult him first.  Eventually he got over it and their kid attended Montessori school the following fall.  Her and Larry never spoke again.