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The Gaslighter-in-Chief
A great psychological-thriller film of 1944, Gaslight, starring Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, and Joseph Cotten, came to mind recently. In the movie, Charles Boyer’s character is a congenital liar, sneak, manipulator, and accuser, doing all kinds of terrible things to make his young wife, Ingrid Bergman, think she’s going insane. In manipulating her this way, Boyer attempts to gain access to family jewels that belong to Bergman.
(“Gaslight” refers to the types of lighting used in English homes of the time, and it specifically refers to the flickering lights in the downstairs of Boyer’s/Bergman’s home while Boyer is secretly rummaging through the attic in search of the jewels.)
Scotland Yard Inspector Joseph Cotten begins investigating, and learns of Boyer’s evil-doing. Eventually, Boyer is brought to justice….
The Impeachment Saga
On September 25, news came out about President Trump’s July 25, 2019 telephone conversation with Ukraine’s new president, Volodymyr Zelensky, in which Trump conditioned military aid to Ukraine on Ukraine conducting an investigation into Trump’s presidential rival, Joseph Biden, and Biden’s son, Hunter.
When questioned about the propriety of that call, Trump, of course, denied that there was anything wrong with it, and went so far as to call it “totally…
