Tuesday, June 5, 2018

The GOP and Hotel Mattresses

by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist

What is it with Republicans and their fetish for hotel mattresses?

First Americans were shocked - or at least decent Americans were shocked - when stories began circulating during the last presidential campaign which suggested that Donald Trump had rented a particular hotel room in Moscow in order to defile a bed that the Obamas had slept on.  When Trump was in Moscow for the Miss Universe Pageant a couple of years earlier, he allegedly hired some Russian hookers for a urination party on the Obama bed.   A postscript to the sordid tale suggested that the Russian spy agency, the KGB, has a film of the pee party and that Vladimir Putin has used that film to blackmail Trump into being little more than a Russian stooge in the White House.

That's weird enough on its own, but now another hotel mattress story involving a prominent Republican politician is also emerging.

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, a man who has a starring role in several on-going corruption scandals, is facing allegations that he used a top aid for several personal errands and other matters unrelated to her government duties.  The aid said that Pruitt had her booking personal flights for him, assisting in a housing search for the administrator, and even trying to get the Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC, to sell him a used mattress.

Several questions remain unanswered in this highly sensitive government matter.  For instance, was Pruitt trying to buy a particular mattress, perhaps one with which he had a sentimental attachment?  Was he possibly seeking a souvenir of a somewhat kinky nature from a property owned by Donald Trump?  Or did he have some legitimate and mundane use for a mattress and just wanted to save himself a few dollars by buying used?

Or perhaps he is planning a party?

Decent Americans probably don't want to know!


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