The Angry President:Donald Trump came out fighting mad yesterday claiming victimhood in the Special Counsel investigation and saying no president should ever have to endure what he has. “Very few people I know could have handled it.”

  “There are a lot of people out there that have done some very, very evil things, very bad things, I would say some treasonous things against our country,” Trump ominously told reporters at the White House. “I’ve been looking at them for a long time,” he said, “and I’m saying why haven’t they been looked at? They lied to Congress, many of them, you know who they are. They’ve done so many evil things.”

   He didn’t say who may have lied or what the treasonous acts may have been. And keep in mind that the report specifically did not exonerate him of obstruction of justice. Democrats are demanding full release of  the Mueller report by Tuesday.

   Trump and his supporters are turning on the press, claiming that the journalists and commentators who followed the Special Counsel investigation wanted to see Trump toppled.

  The President tweeted, “The Mainstream Media is under fire and being scorned all over the World as being corrupt and FAKE.”

  Tennessee Law Professor Glenn Harlan Reynolds writes in USA Todaythat, “The news media chose to run with the Russia story, which quickly morphed from ‘hacking’ to the more nebulous ‘collusion,’ quite credulously. They did so because they wanted it to be true, because they hoped it would hurt Trump, whom the press almost universally despises, and because it was good for ratings and clicks.”

  What he forgets is that it was the investigators who led the evolution of the investigation from Russian election-influencing to potential collusion with the Trump campaign. They established that the Russian election interference was real.

Politics of Justice:The side argument in the Mueller investigation is whether Attorney Gen. William Barr was too quick to decide not to accuse president Trump of obstruction of Justice. Barr was recently appointed by Trump and when he was still in private life wrote an opinion critical of the Special Counsel’s authority to charge the President with obstruction. It seemed that he had already made up his mind.

  Special Counsel Robert Mueller made no recommendation on the question. He left it to Barr, and Barr made his decision quickly. 

The Worm Turns:Michael Avenatti, the lawyer who burst into notoriety representing porn star Stormy Daniels in her lawsuit against President Trump, was arrested yesterday on charges that he attempted to extort $22 million from the Nike athletic company.

  Federal prosecutors say Avenatti threatened the company with damaging information about the recruitment of college basketball players. Negotiating with sharp Nike lawyers, who had called in the FBI, Avenatti talked himself into criminal charges.

  Avenatti was also charged in California with misusing client funds and lying to a bank to get loans. When he left court in New York, Avenatti said he has spent his entire life fighting the powerful and will be exonerated.

  Geoffrey Berman, the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York  in Manhattan, described Avenatti’s attempt as a “shakedown.”He said, “When lawyers use their law licenses as weapons, as a guise to extort payments for themselves, they are no longer acting as attorneys.”

  Avenatti has talked about running for president and it’s our guess that he’ll be too busy.

Pre-existing Opinion:With all the other noise going on, the Trump administration argued in a federal appeals court yesterday that the entire Affordable Care Act known as Obamacare should be struck down because it is unconstitutional.

  Previously the administration had wanted to excise only the provision mandating coverage for people with pre-existing conditions. This could go all the way to the Supreme Court, which has already preserved Obamacare twice. If the administration prevails, millions of people will lose their healthcare coverage.

 The Survivor Suicides:A Connecticut father dedicated to preventing mass shootings after his daughter was killed in the Newtown school massacre has taken his own life.

  This comes just days after the suicide of two young people who survived the Parkland, Fla. school shooting.

  Jeremy Richman, 49, was found dead in his Connecticut office building, Newtown police said. The neuroscientist was the father of 6-year-old Avielle Richman, who was among 20 children and six adults killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook School massacre. Richman had a wife and two other children.

The Obit Page:Scott Walker, the baritone voice of some of the biggest hits of the 60s, has died at age 76. Walker, formerly of The Walker Brothers, was a singer and songwriter whose hits“Make It Easy On Yourself” and “The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore”made him briefly a rival in fame to The Beatles.

Streaming Money:With its loyal customers buying fewer expensive electronic phones and gizmos, Apple has revealed a subscription streaming entertainment service that will keep the customers’ money streaming to Apple. 

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