DONARUDO
WEEK 144 / 337 — The Purge
Vol. 2 ·  Chapter 14 — The Raid · Mar 13 – Mar 19, 2018
Manga panel 1 of 5, Week 144 “The Purge”: The king remakes his court by tweet. A secretary of state learns he is finished; the spy chief rises to take his place. The walls of portraits come down.
THE KING REMAKES HIS COURT — BY DECREE, AND BY SURPRISE. A SECRETARY OF STATE LEARNS OF HIS OWN FALL FROM THE FEED. THE PORTRAITS COME DOWN; NEW FACES GO UP.
Manga panel 2 of 5, Week 144 “The Purge”: The spy chief becomes the new top diplomat; the first woman will run the agency he leaves. Thank you, the king says, to the man he just dismissed.
Mike Pompeo, Director of the CIA, will become our new Secretary of State. He will do a fantastic job! Thank you to Rex Tillerson for his service!…
Manga panel 3 of 5, Week 144 “The Purge”: Two days later the bureau's deputy is fired hours before his pension vests, and the king exults: a great day for democracy.
“Andrew McCabe FIRED, a great day for the hard working men and women of the FBI - A great day for Democracy.…”
Manga panel 4 of 5, Week 144 “The Purge”: But the counsel's team gnaws at him — thirteen hardened partisans, he counts, and not one of his own — and still, he insists, no collusion.
(Why does the Mueller team have 13 hardened Democrats, some big Crooked Hillary supporters, and Zero Republicans? Another Dem recently…)
Manga panel 5 of 5, Week 144 “The Purge”: A committee declares him cleared — no evidence of collusion — and he seizes the words like a shield. But the special counsel answers to no committee.
As the House Intelligence Committee has concluded, there was no collusion between Russia and the Trump Campaign. As many are now finding out…
A FRIENDLY COMMITTEE DECLARES HIM CLEARED, AND HE RAISES THE WORDS LIKE A SHIELD. BUT THE PROSECUTOR IN THE SHADOW ANSWERS TO NO COMMITTEE — AND HE IS CLOSING IN.
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This week in the saga

The king remakes his court by decree and by surprise: a secretary of state learns of his own fall from the feed, the spy chief rises to take his place, and the first woman is named to run the agency he leaves. Two days later the bureau's deputy is fired hours before his pension vests, and the king exults — a great day for democracy. But the counsel's team gnaws at him, thirteen hardened partisans by his count and not one of his own, and still he insists there was no collusion. A friendly committee declares him cleared and he raises the words like a shield — but the prosecutor in the shadow answers to no committee.

Readers' Corner

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