DONARUDO
WEEK 092 / 583 — Vast Sums
Vol. 2 ·  Chapter 10 — The Wiretap · Mar 14 – Mar 20, 2017
Manga panel 1 of 5, Week 92 “Vast Sums”: From his armchair Donarudo watches a hand on the evening news hold up two pages of his own decade-old tax return.
MARCH 14. TWO PAGES OF HIS OLD TAX PAPERS SURFACE ON THE EVENING NEWS.
“Does anybody really believe that a reporter, who nobody ever heard of, ""went to his mailbox"" and found my tax returns? @NBCNews FAKE NEWS!”
Manga panel 2 of 5, Week 92 “Vast Sums”: Donarudo and the matronly stateswoman of the old continent sit side by side before a cold fireplace, hands folded, eyes forward, no handshake.
Despite what you have heard from the FAKE NEWS, I had a GREAT meeting…
Manga panel 3 of 5, Week 92 “Vast Sums”: A great iron scale of tribute tilts hard under heaps of coin owed, in his ledger, by the old continent to the eagle.
“...vast sums of money to NATO & the United States must be paid more for the powerful, and very expensive, defense it provides to Germany!”
Manga panel 4 of 5, Week 92 “Vast Sums”: Across the sea the missile-bristling peninsula stirs, its small watcher on the cliff turned away toward his rockets.
North Korea is behaving very badly. They have been ""playing"" the United States for years. China has done little to help!
Manga panel 5 of 5, Week 92 “Vast Sums”: The towering marshal of the federal bureau raises his hand before Congress and confirms an investigation into the campaign — and no evidence of any wiretap.
MARCH 20. UNDER OATH, THE TOWERING MARSHAL SPEAKS: THERE IS AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE CAMPAIGN. AND THERE WERE NO WIRES.
James Clapper and others stated that there is no evidence Potus colluded with Russia. This story is FAKE NEWS and everyone knows it!
TO BE CONTINUED →

This week in the saga

A week of tribunals foreign and domestic. The tax pages on television are a two-page anticlimax he still cannot let stand; the stateswoman of the old continent gets a cold fireplace and an invoice for vast sums; and on Monday the towering marshal raises his hand and, in one sworn sentence, both denies the wiretap and confirms the investigation. The chapter's namesake accusation dies in that hearing room — and something far larger is born in its place.

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