When you look at the AMPTP’s (non) response to WGA proposals, you see that the studios want to dismantle the WGA. How? 1/ For 70+ years, television was produced in assembly line fashion. A pilot was shot. A series ordered. A premiere date set for the fall the schedule. That meant DEADLINES 2/

1/ Imagine you’re a billionaire. You have a wife and kids you love. You sit on important boards. One day, your friend Jeffrey Epstein gives you some free tax advice. You pass it along to your tax lawyers. They say it’s pretty basic advice not worth much. 2/ Sometime later, Epstein invites you to a party at his house. There’s dozens of models there. Are they 18? 20? Who knows. You have sex with a girl. A few months after that, Epstein sends you a “bill.” It’s $10 million for “tax advice.”

Trump’s attacks on Cummings are vile, and they give me sickening feeling that as raw power politics, they’re a winning strategy for 2020. Each tweet triggers (rightful) outrage from Dems who spend valuable news cycles condemning Trump’s racism and not selling their policies 1/ Trump ran this strategy successfully in 2016. Trump advisers told me how thrilled they were by Hillary‘s “deplorables” speech. 2/