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Dishes Best Served Cold [1]

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Date: 2022-06-29  

The political intelligentsia tells me to ignore the cheeseburger. “It’s a distraction! The ketchup, the china aren’t the story!”

Well, as any detective fiction fan can tell you, sometimes the tiny detail, the “distraction,” is the story, and the key to bringing miscreants to justice.

After yesterday’s hearing, an old friend, an actual Deep State lawyer, pointed out that Himself’s willful destruction of federal property, if the property’s value exceeds $1,000, is punishable with a sentence of up to ten years (18 U.S. Code § 1361 - Government property or contracts).

This news propelled me directly to the Wikipedia page on White House china, where I learned that Himself didn’t even commission his own dishes. Melania was supposed to be designing the “Trump china,” but never got around to it, so Himself was always eating off the “Obama china,” possibly why he so loved breaking the stuff.

The Obama china consists of 320 settings of 11 pieces each, or 3,520 pieces in all. It was produced by Pickard China of Illinois at a cost of $367,258, or about $104 a piece. While the values of, say, the individual soup tureens the Obamas introduced to White House service may be more valuable and smaller items like bread plates less so, let’s posit a $100 average for plates sufficient to serve hamberders.

(It may be that Himself refused entirely to eat off of the Obama’s china. It can be reasonably assumed that older sets in the White House China Room would be of equal or, in terms of historical sets, far greater value.)

Ms. Hutchinson, in yesterday’s hearing, testified,

"There were several times throughout my tenure with the chief of staff that I was aware of him either throwing dishes or flipping the tablecloth to let all the contents of the table go onto the floor and likely break or go everywhere."

“Several times.” “All the contents of the table.” If, as is likely, Baby Huey’s multiple high chair tantrums resulted in the destruction of 10 or more pieces of White House china, and if reputable witnesses will testify to that destruction, we have the felon dead to rights. Over a grand in willful destruction of federal property. I can almost hear the judge’s gavel going bang now.

Seeing Himself hauled off to the big house for seditious conspiracy would be wonderful. Seeing him salted away in a state pen in Georgia for attempted extortion of Raffensperger would be sweet, too.

Honestly, though, how likely are we to see that? Those cases, complex and politically charged, might take years to crawl through the courts and offer plenty of issues to challenge on appeal.

Simple vandalism, though, who doesn’t understand that? You don’t need to know concepts like sedition to dig a toddler tossing crockery.

In the end, I don’t really care how they jug him. Should they nail him on conspiracy or obstruction, that’d be great.

But sending him upstate for breaking dishes would make me shout, “Opa!”

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