Greta Van Susteren is awful. Did anybody just see her?

[Chiyo-chichi]

35. Right.

I've been watching Leah Remini's excellent show, "Scientology and the Aftermath," on A&E. My thoughts were exactly along the lines of yours.

Didn't LRH hate the media as much as Trump does? "Chaos merchants," I think he called them.

ETA: This is interesting. It's from last April, but...
"Donald J. Trump Is the L. Ron Hubbard of Politics"
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/04/03/donald-trump-is-the-l-ron-hubbard-of-politics.html

And this is even more interesting:

"What would Scientology gain from a Trump presidency? Plenty.

Trump enthusiastically supports limiting freedom of the press and altering libel laws. Nothing would please the Church of Scientology more. The mainstream media’s allegations of Scientology’s checkered history, abusive practices, and unrelenting demands from its adherents is well chronicled. Expanding paths to litigation would take some of the heat off the church and bolster its treasury.

Trump, an unabashed admirer of Vladimir Putin’s authoritarianism, has let it be known how he will facilitate the Russian’s goals: terming NATO “obsolete” and cutting back the U.S. commitment; encouraging the Russian hacking of U.S. Government agencies, endorsing Russia’s annexation of Crimea, and threatening to pull the plug on the U.S. alliance with Japan who is in the midst of a territorial dispute with Russia over the Kuril Islands.

Putin’s payback would not compromise any of his aggressive foreign policy goals. Russia has been tough on Scientology, not recognizing it as a religion. The Russian president could lift Moscow’s ban on The Church of Scientology and rein in Russian law enforcement authorities who have been conducting raids on Scientology centering on money laundering. Russia’s 143 million citizens, especially its growing number of “celebrity” Trumpian oligarchs, represent a fertile recruitment base.

There’s no doubt if Trump is elected president, the Church of Scientology will have its man in the White House."

http://tampabaybeat.info/index.php/2016/10/06/donald-trump-pam-bondi-and-the-church-of-scientology/