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8TH Avenue , Night - John Dowd , 2026.
American , b. 1960 -
Oil on canvas
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8TH Avenue , Night - John Dowd , 2026.
American , b. 1960 -
Oil on canvas
John Dowd (b.1960) - Evening Light, Florida. Early 2000's. Oil on linen.
"High Tide".
"Near Dawn".
"Beach Point Twilight". 2022.
"East End Twilight". 2022.
"Days, Summer".
Paintings by John Dowd. American. b. 1960-
Source: @huariqueje
A Gotham Nocturne- John Dowd
(Even after resigning as Trump’s lawyer, John) Dowd remained convinced that (Special Counsel Robert) Mueller never had a Russian case or an obstruction case. He was looking for the perjury trap. And in a brutally honest self-evaluation, he believed that Mueller had played him, and the president, for suckers in order to get their cooperation on witnesses and documents.
Dowd was disappointed in Mueller, pulling such a sleight of hand.
After 47 years, Dowd knew the game, knew prosecutors. They built cases. With all the testimony and documents, Mueller could string together something that would look bad. Maybe they had something new and damning as he now more than half-suspected. Maybe some witness like (Trump’s first National Security Adviser Michael) Flynn had changed his testimony. Things like that happened and that could change the ball game dramatically. Former top aide comes clean, admits to lying, turns on the president. Dowd didn’t think so but he had to worry and consider the possibility.
Some things were clear and many were not in such a complex, tangled investigation. There was no perfect X-ray, no tapes, no engineer’s drawing. Dowd believed that the president had not colluded with Russia or obstructed justice.
But in the man and his presidency, Dowd had seen the tragic flaw. In the political back-and-forth, the evasions, the denials, the tweeting, the obscuring, crying “Fake News,” the indignation, Trump had one overriding problem that Dowd knew but could not bring himself to say to the president: “You’re a fucking liar.”
-- Bob Woodward, Fear: Trump in the White House
“Don't testify. It's either that or an orange jumpsuit”
Wow, Dowd and McMaster; two in one day. Someone needs to tell the papers that it isn't Breaking News anymore when the tune pauses during Trump's perpetual game of musical chairs.
Breaking government, maybe, but not breaking news.