Jimmy Kimmel has a new thought and it’s not a bad one, at all. In fact, it’s one that has occurred to others, though not in as funny a context, it is legitimate.

First, Kimmel put it all in context:

“The legal woes for Trump are piling up. The attorney general in New York says she has evidence that the Trump Organization engaged in a pattern of deception, and today we learned that the DA in Fulton County, Georgia, has requested a special grand jury to look into his post-election shenanigans there.

On top of that, the Supreme Court cleared the way for the special committee that’s looking into the insurrection to review 700 pages of documents Trump wanted kept secret, and we got an update from Congress today on what Trump was doing behind closed doors in the lead-up to Jan. 6.

Okay, so that’s the set-up.

But then Kimmel noted that, according to Stephanie Grisham, Trump would take a lot of these meetings secretly, Trump held top secret closed-door meetings at the Executive Residence of the White House just prior to the Jan. 6 insurrection, and attendees were not officially recorded to keep it off the books.

This, of course, would violate White House rules about presidential records, pretending they were playing cards behind closed doors.

Furthermore, the attendees in the meetings were brought into the Executive Residence, where the president lives, by the White House chief usher, a bespectacled, unassuming fellow by the name of Timothy Harleth.

“[It] could mean that Timothy Harleth would be subpoenaed by the committee, which would be a big deal for a guy whose only job at the White House seemed to be, based on what comes up on Google Images when you search his name, picking out the White House Christmas tree. 

Harleth happens to be the chief usher and his job goes well beyond leading people to the residence. The chief usher has nothing to do with anything political – obviously, but the job is far more important than people might believe. His job is to both make sure other staff on sight are doing their jobs and make sure that the White House looks perfect and functions without any flaws.

How many of us can do this with our own homes? We suspect we are dealing with a real professional.

****

[email protected] and on Twitter