<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><div><b>“Manafort and Gates”</b> by Calvin Trillin, Deadline Poet</div><div><br></div><div>Their tales of corruption and thieving and fraud</div><div>Don’t alter the president’s views in the slightest.</div><div>He’s comfortable boasting, when all’s said and done,</div><div>That he has attracted the best and the brightest.</div><div><br></div><div>He said he could keep all the swamp critters out.</div><div>Consider who managed to sail by his test:</div><div>Scott Pruitt, Chris Collins, and Tom Price, and Ross—</div><div>A grifter’s idea of the brightest and best.</div></div><div> </div>———————————————<br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div> </div></div></div></body></html>