Wishing Jerry Nadler A “Happy Shark Week, Chum!”

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler told CNN's Jake Tapper that his personal view is Trump "richly deserves impeachment.  He has done many impeachable offenses.  He’s violated the law six ways from Sunday.  But that’s not the question.  The question is can we develop enough evidence to put before the American people.” 

President Trump has often referred to the chairman, a New York Democrat, as “Fat Jerry”.  The moniker is spot on.  His trousers are hiked up to his chin making his zipper the longest one known to mankind.  But he reminds me more of Danny Devito’s Penguin role in the 1992 Tim Burton directed movie “Batman Returns”.

Oswald Cobblepot AKA Penguin AKA “Fat Jerry” has shared a decades-long feud with the President over his desire in the 1980s to build the world’s tallest building as part of a major redevelopment of a railyard on Manhattan’s West Side which was part of Nadler’s State Assembly District.

For years, Nadler had said he wanted the development site to be turned into a rail freight terminal, in order to help the city’s manufacturing sector which at the time employed more than 500,000 people.

Some of Nadler’s biggest political contributions have come from transportation workers unions. The Sheet Metal, Air, Rail & Transportation Union was among his single biggest donors, contributing $115,500 to his campaigns for Congress since 1991, public records show.

Trump’s grand vision entailed building 7600 high-rise apartments, the largest shopping mall on the East Coast and sprawling television studios for NBC.  The crowning jewel was to be a lavish 152-story condo where Trump would occupy the penthouse.

According to a published report from the New York Post, “Trump got involved in the project after real estate magnate Abe Hirschfeld and his partners defaulted on their loans. Like those before him, the young developer faced off against Nadler and his backers — a phalanx of resident celebrities that included authors E. L. Doctorow, Robert Caro and Betty Friedan. Their neighborhood coalition threw glitzy cocktail fundraisers and distributed flyers warning residents that Trump’s luxury skyscraper would cast a huge shadow over the neighborhood and cover local parks in darkness for most of the day. The influx of thousands of people working at the proposed television studios and mall would overwhelm the neighborhood’s fragile infrastructure, especially the 72nd Street subway, they said.”

Nadler appeared on the Sunday talk shows defending Robert Mueller’s testimony to two congressional panels last week, but a new ABC News/Ipsos poll shows the former Special Counsel’s appearance failed to move the needle on whether the President should be impeached.

Seventy-one percent of Americans said they had either read, seen or heard about his testimony while forty-seven percent said it made no difference in their views.  It was a wash on supporting impeachment with 27 percent saying they were “more likely” and 26 percent being “less likely.”

The latest Real Clear Politics Presidential Job Approval continues to hover around 44 percent.

Blogger friend Don Surber recently noted, “We elected a playboy billionaire president because none of the virgins could get the job done.”

Discovery Channel’s Shark Week kicks off tonight at 8PM.  The popular summer event is the longest-running cable program in history and is now broadcast in 72 countries.

It looks like Donald John Trump has Nadler between a rock and a shark place.

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