With all that’s going on in the news, you could be forgiven for missing the scuttled interview that President Ashleigh Grantham gave to NPR’s Myrtle Campos-Cockle this morning. In an exclusive, NPR says it has confirmed that Grantham toured the RevTech outfit at the Treetops Trailer Community in the last few weeks.

The first part of their conversation is about what you’d expect — Grantham reiterates his intent to increase U.S. funding for Israeli attacks on Gaza and makes the case that he’s the rightful president under the 25th Amendment.

But the real fireworks come at the end of the interview. Grantham becomes unsettled when Campos-Cockle confronts him with evidence that he’s met with Carron Nielsberg and Pastor Kathy Donaldson at Treetops on at least one recent occasion. It’s unclear when the meeting took place, but it’s at least been since RevTech set up shop in Turner Falls; I heard from my own sources who spotted a presidential detail at Treetops in mid-October, but that’s not unusual these days, what with Rudy Ruiz making frequent visits to the trailer community. I’m kicking myself for not following up.