The Irony Explodes . . . April 4, 2026April 4, 2026 Four tidbits . . . > PAM BONDI’S EXTRAORDINARY LEGACY Two minutes. > JEANINE PIRRO, ONE OF HER RUMORED REPLACEMENTS The irony explodes. You’ll be screaming at the screen in under 2 minutes. > MAGA CHRISTIANITY . . . . . . says John Fugelsang, is “more offended by Colin Kaepernick’s knee than by Derek Chauvin’s knee.” The more I listen to his Separation of Church and Hate — and to James Talarico — the more I see the potential to welcome millions of Jesus’s faithful into the party that cares more for the least of us than for billionaires. Not that I have anything against billionaires. Many are awesome. Several are my friends. It’s just that the last few decades have tilted the game way too far in their favor — as many billionaires agree. > THE TESLA TRUCK PERFECTLY DESCRIBED “A large, angular vehicle, often with tinted windows — bringing to mind the brutalist architecture of mid-20th century fascism — with a look and practicality that defies understanding.” — Glenn Sonnenberg Two meatier reads . . . MILES TAYLOR The Casual Crucifixions of Donald J. Trump America’s current president welcomes comparisons to a persecuted Jesus Christ. But he shares one particular obsession with a different person: the persecutor. ______________ It was January 10, 2019. We were on Air Force One with the president, headed to the Southern Border, and Donald Trump was in a boisterous mood. . . . Read on. ROY COHN, MICHAEL EPSTEIN, and RASPUTIN: DARK CONNECTORS The Epstein Class Had a Signature Weakness . . . Ah, the plane. Somewhere, a cultural anthropologist must be studying private air travel as a signifier among the tribes of the globalized elite. To bring someone aboard a private flight is a recognition of his status and an invitation for him to admire yours. It confers a feeling of belonging to a class whose members are too important to wait in lines, fasten seatbelts or proceed through customs. Even in this rarefied world, there are distinctions. Jeff’s plane was no ordinary C.E.O.’s jet, a Gulfstream or a Bombardier. It was a Boeing 727, outfitted for an outer-borough sultan, with velour sofas, a bar, a theater and a stateroom. . . . Oh, and hey — will the President obey the law that he himself signed into law requiring release of all the files without unnecessary redaction? Is it now okay for the chief executive to defy the near unanimous will of Congress?