Nouno the Vigilante Episode 39 Secret Meeting and Democrat failures

                Joshua Hunsucker is putting on his uniform.  It was this uniform that his wife Stacey was first attracted to him.  Living in North Carolina, the weather was nice as it wasn’t oppressively hot in the summers but not debilitating cold in the winter.   At 35, Joshua was still relatively young but old for his profession of a paramedic with the long hours.  On paper, Joshua had a good life as paramedics are highly respected and he had a loving wife and two small children.  Unfortunately, things aren’t always as great as they seem to be on paper. 

                Although paramedics do have medical knowledge as their jobs require them to perform medical care to patients as they transport them to the hospital, since they aren’t doctors they do not take the Hippocrates Oath.  Although it is a long oath, the core part of it is that you will not use your medical knowledge to do harm.  Hunsucker was about to do exactly that.  While alone with his wife in their bedroom, he attacked the woman three years his junior who had mothered his two children.  Using his knowledge of the human body, he efficiently murdered her and although it was an occasion to call someone of his profession, he did nothing to administer care and let his wife die.  Their two children will hardly remember who their mother was.

 

                On the opposite side of the country, Nouno and his wife Abby are in their pool to cool off from the hot Arizona sun.  Abby calls out to him “Are you ready for the primary season to start?”

                “Do you think it’s a coincidence that closing statements for the impeachment are today as well?  They’re still trying to take attention away from the Democrat primaries.”

                “No, people are still tuning in.”

                “Well, finally elections are getting to the 21^st century and tallying the votes with an app.”

                “It’s just a way for Hillary Clinton to corrupt the elections.  She’ll control the app and hack into it to skew it for her candidate and away from Bernie.”

                “What is it with you in thinking that Hillary controls the Democrat party?”

                “Because she does”

                “Whatever, we’ll just see who wins Iowa.  How are you going to feel if Bernie wins?”

                “Bad, I hate Bernie Sanders.  I don’t like socialists.”

                “Well, it will kill your narrative that Hillary owns the party.”

                “I guess that’s a silver lining but doesn’t make me too happy.”

                “The DNC just released a statement that they have been preparing for this for three years.  They’re really excited to roll it out.”

                “That’s so cute.” Nouno mocked

                They spent the day taking it easy and as night descended they tuned in to the TV to see who won Iowa.  After watching news anchors awkwardly try to fill in time as they await the results that will never come, Nouno’s smile grows wider and wider as Abby’s eyes get bigger and bigger and her mouth opens wider and wider.  Not only did the app fail but the hotline they used as a backup also overheated and failed.  Finally, the Democrats got desperate and asked for polling stations to take screenshots and text the results to them.  As they go to bed and there is no winner in Iowa, Abby lied next to her husband and sighs.  She remarks, “Okay, maybe you have a point with Hillary.”

                Nouno takes a condescending tone, “There’s no evidence Hillary had anything to do with this.”

                “Oh stop it.  It’s a little too convenient and suspicious.  Bernie was expected to win.”

                “I would agree but you’re the one that thinks I’m paranoid.”

                “You may be on to something.  I just admitted that.”

                “I know, but it doesn’t get old.”

                Abby smacks Nouno on the shoulder and lies down with her back to Nouno.  Nouno has a large grin as he takes great pleasure in the Democrats failure.

                When they wake up, they make breakfast and Abby announces, “We have a case.”

                “You need to release some aggression after having to admit I was right last night?”

                “You better be careful.  We’re going after someone that killed their spouse and it may just give me ideas.”

                “We’re going after a girl that killed her husband?”

                “No, we’re going after a guy that killed his wife.”

                “Well, that’s not what we have going on.  You’re talking about you killing me.  I would never hurt you.”

                “Keep bragging and I may hurt you.”

                Nouno chuckled and walked toward his wife with his arms out.  Abby gave a coy smile and rolled her eyes.  As Nouno wrapped his arms around her she pushed against his chest playfully trying to push him away but Nouno pulled her close.  She lifts her lips and kisses him on the lips and Nouno lets go.  He asks, “So where are we going?”

                “North Carolina”

                “Cool”

                Abby books a flight and they head to the airport.  As airports seem to only play CNN, Nouno is dismayed that he has to listen to the fake news network.  He sees Van Jones go on and admit that the Iowa Caucus had missed the boat.  Nouno states, “Wow, CNN actually admitted that the Democrats messed something up.”

                Van Jones continues, “You have to remember that Iowa is 90% white so they don’t represent the country.  They failed because they don’t represent black people or the rest of the country.”

                Nouno nods and declares, “And there it is; pulling the race card on an issue that has nothing to do with race.”

                Abby adds,’ “You’ll never guess who was in charge of the app.”

                “You’re right I won’t”

                “Hillary’s campaign manager and Romney’s campaign manager.”

                “Oh this just gets better and better.”

                “For the record, Robbie Mook, Clinton’s campaign manager, denies it.”

                “Yea, he was the genius that said that Bill Clinton was too old and couldn’t relate to young voters so shouldn’t campaign for Hillary. Hate to say I agree with newspapers over someone but in this case, I’m with the Des Moines newspaper.”

                They board the plane and Nouno lets the filter fail and pronounces, “From the party that brought you the ObamaCare website and the worst economic recovery in American history, tune in for the new election counting app in Iowa.”

                Abby decides not to fight it but join so she responds, “They may not be able to fix an app or a hotline, but they can sure take care of your healthcare.”

                “They successfully banned voter ID because it corrupts elections but screenshots are much safer.”

                Abby takes a normal tone, “Seriously though, it’s hard not to think this isn’t a conspiracy against Bernie.”

                “Which is great because the Bernie Bros may not come out to support a candidate if it’s not Bernie.  If they stay home, it just gives more help to President Trump to win re-election.”

                “Republicans are really going to pounce on this.”

                “As they should!  Think about all we have this week.  Monday, Democrats screw up the Iowa Caucus, Tuesday; President Trump gives the State of the Union to tell the country how great the economy is doing and all he’s achieved in three years and then Wednesday he gets acquitted officially taking the Democrats best shot and not being phased.  That’s how you start a week!”

                They land in North Carolina and check into their motel where they set about soundproofing it.  Abby furiously checks social media to find out everything she can about Joshua.  Nouno is a little worried as law enforcement tends to protect their own and the Fire Department works very closely with the police force.  A paramedic may be tough but they were never ones to shy away from a challenge.  They devise a plan and set to it.  Even though Joshua is now a single father, he spends a lot of his time at the bar enjoying his new found freedom as he is single.  Joshua left the kids with family so as to be partially responsible.  As he is drinking, a shoulder length blond girl sits next to him with thin lips, skinny body that only enhance her perfectly round butt and large perky breasts.  Her skin is flawless and her greenish-grey eyes are mesmerizing to Joshua.  She starts in a high pitched voice, “Hi, handsome what brings you in here?”

                Joshua looks down and realizes he’s wearing his fire department uniform.  This was on purpose since it was good bait to attract girls but girls that looked like this normally wait to be approached and don’t do the approaching no matter what the guy is wearing.  He stuttered a bit, “Umm, Hi”

                “I’m Ashley”

                “Joshua”

                “Nice to meet you” as Abby extends her hand. 

                Joshua shakes it, “Trust me, the pleasure is all mine.  Do you want a drink?”

                “I’d love one.  Thank you.”

                “Are you going to leave as soon as I buy you one?”

                Abby dropped her voice an octave and put on an offended tone, “Do I look like a girl that would do that?”

                “Yes”

                “Well, buy me a drink and find out.”

                Joshua does exactly that and Abby takes the drink and smiles, “Ok see ya” and takes a couple steps. 

                Joshua doesn’t follow but when she turned around they were both smiling, “I’m just being a punk” Abby comforted

                “I noticed”

                Abby put her hands on his arm and articulated, “I like your uniform” as she rubbed it.  What he didn’t realize was that Abby had a small syringe in her hand and slipped it into Joshua’s armpit. 

                Abby immediately ordered shots to cover up what she did.  The shots came and Joshua and she took one.  Abby noticed Joshua’s eyelids getting heavy.  She had already signaled Nouno to come in and he did.  Abby put on her charming voice and patted Nouno on the arm as he walked by, “Excuse me sir but my boyfriend has had a little too much to drink. You’re a big guy, can you help me get him into a cab so he can go home?”

                Nouno looked back and forth and nonchalantly shrugged his shoulders and responded, “Why not?”

                Nouno draped Joshua’s arm over his shoulder and they helped Joshua out of the bar and into their car.  Nouno and Abby got in and drove toward the hotel and Abby stopped smiling and turned the charm off.  Joshua woke up to find himself restrained to the table.  He tried struggling against his constraints but quickly realized that it was fruitless.  He was surprisingly calm when he inquired, “Why am I here?”

                Nouno replied, “You need to be punished for killing your wife.”

                “You don’t know what it was like living with her.”

                “I don’t care.  You don’t kill your wife.”

                “Did you know her?”

                “Nope”

                “Do you have kids?”

                “No”

                “Well, when you do, you’ll realize how much pressure they put on you.  I got these two kids to support and a wife that’s constantly nagging.  Everyone has their breaking point.”

                “A lot of people have two or more kids and a wife and they manage not to kill their wife.”

                “It’s just that with the misogynistic president, it’s hard to look at women equally when the country elects Donald Trump.”

                “You’re blaming the president for you killing your wife?”

                “Yea, did you see the impeachment hearings?  Schiff said that if they don’t remove him he’s going to sell Alaska to the Russians.”

                “He also said he’d move to Mar A Lago and make Jared Kushner president. If that’s what he’s coming up with in his closing statement, you know he has nothing.”

                “He’s just saying that just because it’s legal, doesn’t make it right.”

                “But he had to go to hypotheticals and make shit up rather than focus on what happened.  Well, what he alleges happened is also a made up thing so I can see why he doesn’t know the difference.”

                “Well, Weissman has already threatened that there will be more leaks.”

                “So what?  All the other leaks didn’t do anything what makes you think these will?  They got so desperate they utilized their biggest weapon; impeachment, and it still didn’t stop him.  He didn’t even mention it in the state of the union.”

                “Do you really want a king instead of a president?  If he gets acquitted, then he knows he’s untouchable.”

                “That would be the Democrats fault wouldn’t it be?”

                “Well yea, but we can’t go back and not impeach him.”

                “So, we should just remove him to save the Democrats from their retardation?”

                “I’m not saying that.  I’m just saying we fought a revolution to remove a king.”

                “If Trump was a king, you wouldn’t be able to insult him, there would be no judicial injunctions stopping him, the wall would be built and he wouldn’t be undermined at every turn.  Every time he writes an executive order or does anything, he gets sued.  You can’t do that to a king.”

                “That was before.  I’m talking the future.”

                “You’re not making any sense but I’ll turn it back on you.  Do you really want the party that brought you the Iowa Caucus debacle to be running the country?”

                “Even the conservative at the Washington Post, Jennifer Rubin, said that what good are the Iowa Caucuses anyway?”

                “First of all, Washington Post has no conservatives.  Rubin just pretends to be so she can say stupid shit and contradict herself like a liberal.  In this case, she wrote an article on 5/13/19 entitled, ‘Why Iowa is so important this time.’ So which is it?  It can’t be important when everything is running smoothly and then no good and unimportant when it collapses.”

                Abby interrupts, “Okay, this has gone on long enough.  He’s a moron.  He killed his wife, he dies now.”

                Joshua had a pleading tone, “Please don’t.  I have two young kids at home and I’m all they got.  There’s not a day that goes by I don’t regret what I did to their mother.”

                “Stacey”

                “What?”

                “Say your wife’s name”

                Joshua took a swallow of saliva and pronounced, “Stacey”

                “Just as how your argument that we should remove the president because he may be emboldened that all these fake charges didn’t stick, you can’t kill your wife and then claim people shouldn’t kill you so as to not make your kids orphans.  They’re better off without you.  Case in point, you were at a bar hitting on me instead of home with your kids.”

                “You came up to me.”

                “You reciprocated and now instead of you penetrating me, I’m going to penetrate you” as Abby stabbed Joshua in the chest killing him instantly. 

                Abby and Nouno wrapped the body and loaded it into the trunk of their car.  They went to a crematorium that they already scoped out and broke in loading Joshua’s body on the machine and activating it.  After they get him in, they leave to go to a diner as they wait for the body to disintegrate down to the bones.  As they order, Abby poses, “Have you heard of Olga Bielkova?”
                “Yea, she’s a Ukrainian law maker”

                “Well, apparently Victor Pinchuk sponsored a trip for her to come to America in April 2016.”

                “Interesting; Pinchuk is the Clinton Foundation’s biggest donor.  He’s a Ukrainian billionaire.”

                “Right”

                “What did he fly Bielkova to America for?”
                “To meet with Barack Obama and Eric Ciaramella at the White House.”

                “Seven months before the election”

                “Yuppers”

                “She seemed pretty busy.  Also met with David Kramer.”

                “He was McCain’s aid that gave the Steele dossier to the FBI.”

                “Same guy yea”

                “There’s a lot of stuff that has come out about Ciaramella.  Victoria Nuland e-mailed him about the loan guarantees to Ukraine that Biden held up because they were investigating his son.”

                “Who’s Victoria Nuland?”

                “She worked for Hillary and Bill Clinton.  Whenever you have one of the Clinton’s, she’s not far behind.”

                A large man comes over.  He stands at 6’3” and extremely broad with a shaggy beard.  He speaks with a deep voice that matches his size.  He starts, “I’m sorry that I was eavesdropping but I’m really interested in Spygate.  Olga Bielkova was also on a Ukrainian Natural gas discussion panel.”

                “Probably why Burisma was always touting Hunter Biden and bragging that they had him on the board.  They were telling the state department as a not so subtle suggestion that the needed to help them with their legal troubles with the Ukrainian investigations.”

                Abby was on her phone and read from it, “It appears she’s still involved.”

                The big man posed, “What do you mean?”

                “She’s a big time Biden supporter.  She wrote an article that Biden would be good news for Ukraine.”

                They finish their dinner and then head out to the crematorium to clean up.  What they find is cop cars and sirens as the smoke was discovered.  The car was booked under Nouno’s name so Abby books a one way rental to Nashville.  They head back to the hotel and pack their things and load up the car.  They return the rental and take Abby’s rental and drive to Nashville where Abby already booked a flight.  A couple days later, they are on a plane back to Arizona resisting the urge to check local news for information about Joshua.  If they had, they would realize that it had made the local news but the police were looking at Stacey’s family.

                On the plane, Nouno raised his arms and cheered, “Yes”

                Abby turned to him, “What?”

                “The GOP is investigating several Obama aids in voter manipulation in 2016.  The payback has started.”

“Don’t get your hopes up.  Like you always say, Democrats are above the law.”

“Yea, I know but I can still hope.”

“I found out someone else who was at those White House meetings.”

“Who?”

“Alexandra Chalupa.”

“Of course she was.  I mean, if she’s going to be travelling to Ukraine and getting fake black ledgers to take down Manafort, she might as well be involved in colluding to take down the president.  She is the biggest Ukrainian colluder so why wouldn’t she be in the meeting?”

“Exactly, you should have figured that.”

“It almost goes without saying.”

“It is interesting.”

“You want to know what’s even more interesting?”

“Yes”

“All this happened at the same time that Biden was threatening Porochenko to fire the prosecutor general Shokin or else they’re not getting the billion dollars.”

“I wonder if that’s what the meetings were about.”

Nouno took a sarcastic tone to match Abby’s, “Oh, I’m sure that’s just a coincidence.”

“Of course it is.  Don’t be ridiculous.”

The plane arrives in Arizona and Nouno and his wife go home and decompress.  They hope nobody picked up the rental car near the crematorium as it was away from the city, which is why they chose it.  They never did find out how the authorities found it so quickly but they believed they dodged a bullet.  They thought to avoid North Carolina but decided that they couldn’t be paranoid.  They had to go where the cases brought them. 

 

Theo the Trump Employee Episode 45 a History of Ukrainian billionaires and US Democrats

                Theo is on his way to work at the Trump White House.  Today is a big day as the Senate had just struck down listening to more witnesses and prolonging the sham impeachment trial with endless witnesses by the Democrats in order to hide the fact that they impeached a president based on no real evidence whatsoever.  The impeachment was based on what they believe the President was thinking and not what he had actually done.  Although this was a big win, technically President Trump hadn’t been acquitted yet but it was looking like he wasn’t going to be removed. It was a great day indeed but Theo was about to get a blast from the past. 

                While at work, Theo receives a text message from his friend Tatiana.  Tatiana was a nurse in the D.C. area who lived in a very nice apartment in D.C. proper with her husband and child.  Theo had known her from high school and they had gone on separate paths as Tatiana worked from California to Ukraine before ending up in D.C. Tatiana’s parents were Ukrainian so it wasn’t too odd for her to take a job there as she was fluent in the language.  Contrary to what most people think of Ukraine, Western Ukraine, where Tatiana’s family is from, speaks Ukrainian and despise Russians.  It is only Kiev and East that considers themselves Russian and speak Russian.  While working for Ukrainian-first presidential campaigns, Tatiana quickly realized the corruption in Ukraine and found herself unable to discern which side she was on.  She ended up accepting money from Hillary Clinton to dig dirt on Paul Manafort and other political opponents that represented the Russian-friendly presidents.  What was done with this information would make it back to the states and caused her to leave Ukraine but not after given enough hush money to ensure that neither she nor her kid would ever have to worry about money.  With money no longer being an issue, she was able to do what she enjoyed; be a nurse.  The money, however, weighed on her because of what she had to see and find out in order to be worth so much for her silence.  She knew Theo to be honorable so every now and then she unloaded it on him even though he worked in the Trump White House.  Theo’s take was always that she couldn’t possibly know anything that President Trump didn’t already know so, to him, there was no point to mention it to anyone in the White House. 

                Theo took the invitation and they met up for dinner.  He knew that she had something important to say just by the expression on her face.  He gave her a hug and said, “I’ve been wanting to talk to you considering all this crap going on involves your country.”

                She gave him a dirty look, “Yea, well that’s why I’m here.  You can’t tell anyone though.”

                “Yea, I know”

                “I’m sorry to put you in this situation because I know who your employer is but you really need to stay tight lipped on this.”

                “Tatiana, we go through this dance every time.  I have yet to say anything yet the information always comes out.  It’s been a long time since you were in Ukraine.  They have a new president.  The stuff you know has come out through no fault of yours and is probably known by the president and all his closest advisors.  Trust me, you’re fine.”

                “I know but you know what happens when you cross the Clintons”

                “Yes, I do.  If you’re high profile, they bring the entire DOJ on you to investigate you in Stalin-like interrogations and make up crimes to charge you with and deny you all rights you have as an American during the trial.  If you’re not high profile, she just kills you and has people conclude it’s an accident.”

                “I’m glad you understand that my life depends on your silence.”

                “Yes, which is why I’ve never told anyone before.”

                “What do you know about Joe Biden?”

                “Lifelong politician.  Speaks very highly of Segregationists that he used to work with; likes smelling kid’s hair and having them crawl on his legs and play with his leg hair, kind of creepy, forgets what state he’s in half the time….”

                “In 2014”

                “Vice President of the United States”

                “And point man to Ukraine”

                “Yea, that too.”

                “Well, do you know how much he was worth in 2014?”

                “No”

                “He went around claiming to be poor because he doesn’t own a stock or bond and only has mildly expensive suits.  He painted himself as the everyday man because he couldn’t afford to wear a different suit to every event.”

                “Okay”

                “Forbes even ran a story about it.”

                “Fine, but that’s not necessarily bad.”

                “Not yet but his claiming how poor he was caught the attention of a Ukrainian billionaire named Mykola Zlochevsky”

                “Sounds Polish but yea he’s the owner of Burisma.”

                “Trust me, he’s Ukrainian.  Anyway, that Forbes piece ran in 2014.  Also in 2014, Burisma hires Hunter Biden to their board with no energy experience.  They pay him $83,000 a month.”

                “Right, this is well documented.”

                “You don’t think it’s odd that Ukraine’s largest energy company hires someone on the board with no energy experience whatsoever?”

                “Of course I do and even Hunter admitted he wouldn’t have gotten the job if his last name wasn’t ‘Biden.’”

                “Yes, you got all that but do you know how Zlochevsky made Burisma into the success that it is?”

                “Killed some people?”

                “Not quite…well maybe….but no, not what I was going to say.”

                “What were you going to say?”

                “He was the ecology minister in Ukraine and he funneled money to Burisma for rights and permits to drill.”

                “Ahh, so when you’re in charge of the permits, you can crush your competition and allow your company to thrive.”

                “And use foreign money to go to your friends and allies and not to your competition.”

                “Yes, that too.”

                “Problem is you have to hide all that money that you’re stealing from the government and foreign aid.”

                “Yes, that would be good.”

                “That’s where Hunter Biden comes in.  They laundered money through various international banks before going to Hunter Biden to make it look like it’s just his firm doing international business but really it’s from Burisma.”

                “Why hide it if he was part of the government?”

                “Zlochevsky was the minister under Yanukovych then the Ukrainian revolution happened and Yatsenyuk became interim President before Porochenko became President.”

                “Zlochevky was unsure where his status was with Yatsenyuk.”

                “Correct, because he was with the pro-Russia Yanukovych and Yatsenyuk was pro-Ukraine”

                “Yatsenyuk was your guy then.”

                Tatiana contemplated this and shook her head side to side as she was weighing how to respond, “For the most part yes but it got really fucking complicated.”

                “I bet.  The point is that Burisma felt the need to hide the money they were giving to Hunter Biden, which is suspicious.”

                “Also, why steal all this money if you’re just going to give it to Hunter Biden?  What do you get in return?”

                “Influence over the point man in Ukraine for the United States and the US Vice President who can curry favor for you and provide cover.”

                “Which is exactly what he did by getting a prosecutor general fired.  That prosecutor general was Victor Shokin.  Biden threatened to withhold a billion dollars in US aid unless Shokin was fired so they did.”

                “Right, and the new prosecutor general, Lutsenko, was given a Do Not Prosecute list by George Kent and Marie Yovanovich, our Sarge-D’affair and ambassador.”

                “Okay good, so you know all that.  Now, let’s get to 2016.  Remember, Hillary Clinton was deeply involved in Ukraine and her biggest donor, Victor Pinchuk, is Ukrainian.”

                “Yes, and you had your run ins with her and is the current reason you’re scared shitless every time you talk about the country of your ancestry.”

                “Right, so Biden wanted to run for president in 2016.”

                “I don’t remember him in the primary.  I thought it was just Bernie and Hillary.  I think there was a third but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t Biden.”

                “Do you want to know why?”

                “I didn’t really think about it but sure.”

                “Hillary threatened Joe Biden that if he ran, she would expose Hunter Biden and his corruption.  It was Hillary’s turn and she would step over anyone to make sure she became president so Biden had to wait.”

                “Threatening your enemy’s kid to get what you want.  Yea, that sounds like Hillary and her mob-Saul Alinsky tactics.”

                “It also explains why Obama didn’t endorse him in 2016 and still hasn’t now.”

                “Yea, because Hillary owns the Democrat party and Obama kisses the ring.”

                “Biden’s past may be catching up with him now though.”

                “How’s that?”

                “Victor Shokin just filed a federal complaint against Joe Biden and with Ukrainian authorities about how Biden forced him out because he was investigating Burisma and Hunter Biden.”

                “Good.  I guess he had to wait for a president like Zelensky that was smart and was honest enough to take on Burisma and the Democrat machine in Ukraine.”

                “Anyway, you saw the video where Biden is bragging about holding up the billion dollars unless Shokin is fired.”

                “Yes, for investigating Burisma and, by extension, his son.”

                “Then what?”

                “Ah, Thomas Sowell but I assume Ukraine got the money.”

                “They did but where did it go?”

                Theo gave her a quizzical look, “You know, I don’t know.  I assumed it was for defensive weapons against the Russians.”

                “That is what they want you to assume but that’s not where it went.”

                “So where did it go?”

                “Various NGO’s that George Soros just happens to own.”

                “I’ve heard about this.  Soros was competing with Dmitry Firtash and used America to pressure Ukraine to skew the odds in Soros’ favor. That’s why Soros gives so much money to Democrats.  They help him with his international businesses to crush the competition with sanctions and investigations by giving his companies a pass.”

                “Yes, so that’s where the billion dollars go.  It wasn’t to put in someone who was solid and not corrupt like Biden claimed when he was bragging, it was so he could be the corrupted person and anyone opposing his corruption was to be destroyed.”

                “I’m with you.  Do you want to go to a bar and take this fight to college kids?”

                “You’re still doing that shit?”

                “Oh, it’s so much fun.”

                “Fine, where do you want to go?”

                “Vanderbilt.”

                Tatiana rolls her eyes, “Fine,”

                They pay their check and go to a bar near Vanderbilt University.  As they sit down, Theo calls out, “So do you know that John Bolton got $115,000 to speak in Ukraine?”

                Tatiana responds in a normal volume voice, “Yea, by Victor Pinchuk.”

                “So obviously John Bolton was paid by the corrupt Ukrainians to undermine Trump.  That’s why I’m glad witnesses weren’t called because Bolton is bought and paid for by the Ukrainians.”

                Tatiana figured out that he was baiting college kids.  Almost on cue, a redheaded girl walks up to them and announces, “Umm, a lot of people get paid that much to give speeches when you’re that established.”

                “A former ambassador?  John Bolton isn’t too big a name.”

                “The Ukrainian president likes Trump so if anything they paid Bolton to be quiet.”

                “Oh no, Victor Pinchuk is Hillary Clinton’s largest donor.”

                Tatiana interrupted, “Technically the Clinton Foundation’s largest donor but yes, he’s right.”

                Redhead responds, “Who cares?  What does this have anything to do with anything?  Hillary isn’t running.”

                Tatiana glares at Theo for getting her into this and then takes a deep breath.  If she was being honest, she enjoyed schooling these college kids just as much as Theo but felt that it wasn’t socially acceptable.  She calmly offered, “Joe Biden and Victor Pinchuk are both on the Alliance of Democracies board.”

                “I don’t know what that is.”

                “It is a transatlantic election integrity monitoring company.”

                “Well, that’s good.  I wish we had that when Trump won because he stole that election.”

                Theo shot back, “You’re just a sore loser.  Whenever Democrats lose, they always want to change the rules.  Face it, you lost and given that Ukraine had a revolution in 2014, they probably aren’t the best monitors of international elections.”

                “Are the paid?” the redhead asked

                Tatiana answered, “Yes, but it is technically an NGO.”

                “NGO’s aren’t paid.”

                “Yes they are.  They are used as fronts to launder money.”

                “That’s a conspiracy theory”

                “Not in Ukraine.”

                “Why does everything have to be about Ukraine nowadays?”

                “Pinchuk is a Ukrainian oligarch.  That’s who we’re talking about.”

                The redhead starts typing frantically in her phone.  She then looks up and shows Tatiana her phone, “Look, Pinchuk gave Trump $150,000 so what do you think now?”

                Tatiana rolled her eyes, “He gave the Clinton foundation $25 Million.”

                Theo inquired, “You really think a billionaire like Trump can be bought for $150,000?”

                The redhead types some more on her phone and fires back, “Hillary denies even knowing him.”

                It was now Theo’s turn to type into his phone as he notices Tatiana tensing up since the conversation has turned to Hillary Clinton.  Theo shows the redhead an invitation and an e-mail of Clinton inviting Pinchuk to her house for a party while she was Secretary of State, “You really think someone that Clinton doesn’t know gave her 25 Million dollars and the Clinton didn’t even have the decency to meet him?”

                The redhead sounded less sure of herself, “Well, then why would she say she didn’t know him?”

                “Because he’s corrupt and so is she and she wants to distance herself from all the corrupt people and money she has been associated with to get to where she is.”

                “I don’t believe that.”

                “What do you believe?  That a charity doesn’t thank their donors that give them millions?  They just take their money and not bother to meet them or associate with them in any way?”

                “Let’s go back to that company that Biden has with Pinchuk.”

                Tatiana utters, “The Transatlantic commission.”

                “Right, it’s an international company right?”

                “They hold their conferences in Ukraine engaging journalists and other NGO’s.  Their mission is to monitor and use Social media.”

                “I think that’s noble.  Social media is very influential in elections so they should monitor it.”

                Theo declares, “Judicial Watch has found that the state department used Soros’ NGO’s in Ukraine to monitor people’s social media campaigns.  The people the NGO’s monitor are all people that know that President Trump colluding with the Russians is a hoax.”

                “Oh, so you’re a conspiracist.”

                “Why would you have to monitor conspiracy theorists if there was no truth to what they were claiming?”

                “Lies can cause damage.”

                “I know, look at the lie that Christopher Steele told about the president colluding with the Russians and the lie that Schiff told about the quid pro quo with the president and Ukrainian President Zelensky.  We might as well throw in the Carter Page FISA and the investigations into Mike Flynn and Carter Page.”

                The redhead shook her head, “Wow, I feel sorry for you.  You’re so brainwashed.  I don’t know how anyone falls for Trump’s lies.”

                “What did he lie about?”

                “That more people went to his inauguration than any other inauguration.”

                “How did that negatively affect the country?  Tell me a lie that is actually detrimental to foreign or domestic policy or has dire implications.”

                “I already gave you one.”

                “Not that matched the criteria”

                “You change the criteria after I answered.”

                “True, but can you answer?”

                “I don’t have to.”

                “True, but I’m not sure what the problem is.”

                The redhead scoffs and storms off.  A dark haired boy approaches them and articulates to Theo, “So you’re a Trump supporter?”

                “Yes, I am”

                “You know he’s going to lose?”

                “I don’t know that.  He has a unique ability to make his little nicknames stick with people.”

                “He can’t do that to a woman.  He’ll come off as a bully and too chauvinistic.”

                “What are you talking about?  He called Hillary ‘crooked Hillary’ that stuck.”

                “Well, Hillary is strong so she doesn’t count.”

                “So, you want a weak woman to run against President Trump?”

                “Well he calls Bernie a communist.”

                “He is.  In fact, Bernie brags about it.  President Trump gave him credit for being honest about it.”

                “Yea, I guess he did complement him.”

                “You do realize that he just said that because it gives people the impression that the president is fair in his critique so by saying that Bernie is honest, it gives credibility to his first comment that he’s a communist not just a socialist?”

                “That’s a huge stretch.”

                “No, it’s not.  It’s how it works.  That’s the beauty; people don’t even realize they’re falling for it.”

                “I don’t support him; you do so you’re the one that’s brainwashed.”

                “Wrong.”

                “I just don’t like his rhetoric.  He should be presidential.”

                “No, not in this day in age.  Given the deep state and the vile, sadistic, libelous, scandalous, treacherous Democrats in power, we need a fighter that talks tough and is brash and blunt.”

                “Come on though; calling Elizabeth Warren a fairy Tale.”

                “The woman never tells the truth.  She’s lied about pretty much every single thing she said. I can’t even think of one thing she said that was true.  I wonder if I’ve heard her say that her name is ‘Elizabeth Warren.’  If she did say that, then I wonder if it is her name.”

                “Oh come on!”

                “I’m serious, she really is like a fairy Tale.  Nothing about it is true.”

                “What about calling Bloomberg ‘little?’  It’s really shitty making fun of short people.  That’s just mean.”

                “It worked on Marco Rubio.”

                “Yea, well that’s different. Bloomberg is a billionaire.  In fact, he has more money than Trump.”

                “Yes, he does but he is short.”

                “I just don’t think it’s right.”

                “You do realize you’re proving my point right?”

                “How do you figure that?”

                “You remembered all his nicknames and there is no Democrat candidate yet.  Imagine what he’ll do when he only has one person to focus on.”

                The dark haired boy thinks about this and takes a deep breath.  “I don’t know, I just don’t like it.”

                “That is your opinion but it does work and it does stick.”

                “Yea, I guess so.  I just wish Hillary would just go away.  I mean, she’s viciously attacking Bernie Sanders.  She had her chance, she lost.  Why is she sabotaging candidates now?”

                “There are a few reasons.  First, Bernie knows she sabotaged him in 2016 by bribing the DNC to undermine him and make sure she won the nomination.  Since Bernie knows this, and the press will be on his side since they always favor Democrats, a president Sanders may be better able to lock her up than President Trump.”

                “I don’t think he’s that vindictive.”

                “Oh, I do.  There are other reasons too.”

                “Like what?”

                “Hillary is going to force Bloomberg or Biden to make her Vice President.”

                Both Tatiana and the dark haired boy tensed in surprise as they mulled this over.  The dark haired guy broke the silence, “That would explain the movie about her and how she attacks Bernie.  She wants to be Vice President.”

                Tatiana chimed in, “That will give her a first ever.  She’ll be the first ever female Vice President and nobody can take that from her.  Shit, it might work.  The last four years has proven that she can influence and control shit even if she doesn’t have the office.  She will own the president, especially if it’s Biden, and she, in effect, will be president.  Damn, I never thought of that.”

                Theo added, “It also makes Republicans hesitate about getting revenge by impeaching the next Democrat president.  They don’t want Hillary to be president.”

                The dark haired boy pronounced, “It’s genius.”

                Theo just shrugged his shoulders.  The dark-haired boy walked off seemingly contemplating everything he just learned.  Tatiana turned to Theo, “Can we go now?  Are you done?  Have you had your fill?”

                “Yup, I got my fix.  We can go.”

                Tatiana and Theo were going opposite directions so they hugged good bye with the cheeks against each other and kissed the air.  Theo then got on the train and headed back to his home in Rockville, Maryland.  As he was about to go to bed, he realized he didn’t know what happened in the Iowa Caucus.  He looked it up and found that there was a problem and Iowa didn’t know who won.  Theo smiled and knew that Hillary was written all over this.  Bernie Sanders won and Clinton couldn’t stand for that so she banned them from revealing who the winner was.  He quickly fell asleep as he would need energy for the fight that was about to ensue.  Election years were hectic, drama-filled and downright exhausting.  It is all worth it if your candidate wins though.