Palmer goes from fab to flu as ex-MP claims illness in court despite

Clive Palmer was losing weight. Strewth, The Australian, May 2:

Weighing in at 95kg, 5kg from his target weight, Clive has revealed his resting heart rate is down to 55 beats a minute …

Palmer was looking great. Speaking to Seven’s Sunrise, May 1:

I’m not as good as Tony Abbott in his budgie smugglers, but nevertheless, I aspire to that.

Palmer was … Singin’ in the Rain, 1952:

Fit as a fiddle and ready for love.

But it seems as if Clive’s fitness regime has done him no good. The Australian online, yesterday:

A sick and shaky Clive Palmer — holding a sick bag and ventilator mask — has admitted he paid for two luxury overseas cruises for his now-missing nephew Clive Mensink …

After cutting out his favourite biscuits too … Palmer’s poem on Twitter, April 2:

Mint slices / Vanilla slices / Dices …

OK, we don’t know what the poem is really about. But he was super fit and now he’s not. The Australianonline, continued:

Before he entered the courtroom, he lay down on a leather couch outside …

And Clive’s memory is now going. The Australianonline, yesterday:

Mr Palmer tried and failed to avoid giving evidence under oath, with his lawyers arguing his memory was affected by the morphine-based medicine he’d taken this morning.

FBI director James Comey was once Donald Trump’s favourite guy. Reuters, January 22:

FBI director James Comey upset Democrats over the email drama that engulfed Democrat Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. On Sunday, he got a hug from President Donald Trump.

Hillary Clinton on CNN, May 2:

I was on the way to winning until the combination of Jim Comey’s letter on October 28 and Russian WikiLeaks …

But Comey has been cut off. The Wall Street Journal, yesterday:

President Donald Trump on Tuesday unexpectedly fired FBI director James Comey …

Jeff Sessions, now the US Attorney-General, defended Comey’s Hillary revelations. Sessions on Fox News, November 6 last year:

FBI director Comey did the right thing when he found new evidence. He had no choice.

Sessions’s deputy Rod Rosenstein now says Comey’s treatment of Hillary is why he has been fired. Rosenstein’s letter to Trump, yesterday:

I cannot defend the director’s handling of the conclusion of the investi­gation of Secretary Clinton’s emails …

Comey’s Trump-Russia investigation had nothing to do with it. White House counsellor Kellyanne Conway on CNN, yesterday:

It’s not a cover-up … This has nothing to do with Russia.

Australian Financial Review political editor Laura Tingle isn’t crazy about The Australian and News Corp. AFR, September 17, 2015:

News Ltd toadies …

But we’re seeing eye-to-eye on the budget. AFR, yesterday:

A massive tax hike? … The Coalition would have told … Labor it was dreaming to consider such measures.

Great minds think alike, Laura. The Australian, yesterday:

ScoMo steals Labor tax dream.