WITCH HUNT!

Former White House counsel John Dean is warning that former Trump campaign adviser Richard Gates's testimony could be the "end" of the Trump presidency.

"Mueller is throwing everything he can against Manafort, including Gates who can nail him. Increasingly it appears Manafort is the link to Russian collusion," Dean, who served in the Nixon administration, tweeted.

"If Gates can testify that Manafort was acting with Trump’s blessings, it’s the end of his presidency. That’s substantial."

  The Hill

My fear is that we'll finally see proof, but we still won't get rid of the snake. (And even if we do, we're left with Pence, unless he's in the indictment, too.)

Dean said in a subsequent tweet that people have "expressed concern in this Manafort thread that Trump will pardon him."

"Many of the counts in both the VA and DC indictments have state law counterparts that can be charged in NY and VA, where Trump had no pardon power. Checkmate is coming for Paul Manafort," he tweeted.

The Most Notable Loser went all day yesterday without tweeting.  And he's getting his fix this morning to recover.  It's the same old song: Hillary Clinton is a criminal who should be investigated, and there's no evidence of collusion - or as he is tweeting it:  NO EVIDENCE OF COLLUSION...WITCH HUNT!

And, speaking of the snake...

Oscar Brown Jr.'s daughters are criticizing President Trump for his interpretation of their father's song "The Snake."

During an interview on CNN, the late performer's daughters were asked to explain the message of the song.

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"It's an African tradition to use stories to impart wisdom and that's exactly what that was, teaching us about that."

Oscar Brown Jr., a singer, songwriter, poet and activist who died in 2005, wrote "The Snake" in the early 1960s. It is a tale of a woman taking in a snake to nurse it back to health and care for it, only for the snake to bite her.

Trump frequently read "The Snake" at rallies during his 2016 presidential campaign, refashioning it as an argument for tougher immigration laws.

He again read the tale during his speech last week at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).

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"The elephant in the room is that Trump is the living embodiment of the snake that my father wrote about in that song," Africa Brown said.

  The Hill