One of Trump’s prepaid lawyers, Joe Tacopina made the exact same speech on Sunday that I would have made if I wanted to prove exactly the opposite point about all the Trump nonsense.
The biggest point being avoided by Mr. Tacopina is that this is only one of many criminal cases of which Trump sits at the center. The strongest case and the one most people want to see adjudicated is the Georgia election interference case. That one looks like a slam dunk if it ever goes to trial. But right behind it is the theft of classified material case, which looks as good as any for a conviction. Right behind that one is the 1/6 attack on congress and try at a coup. Are you getting the feeling that Trump better look good in stripes?
Well, just so you Trumpies don’t get too frisky, there is also the matter of an assault and rape charge in Manhattan that is in line for its own day in court.
That of course, leads us to the point where reasonable people say, “This guy is a career criminal. I don’t care what you nail him on, I just want him off the streets.”
Yes, Donald Trump is a career criminal. It’s what he has been all his life. The fact that he was elected President by a bunch of ignorant losers who couldn’t read well enough to understand the facts about him doesn’t change anything. He was a crook in his father’s real estate business, and he was a crook in any number of attempts to bilk the American public after that. Then in the con of the millennium, he got himself elected president and managed to fuck a whole country. Now it’s time to pay the piper. There are still plenty of stupid people who back him, but now there aren’t enough to give him a win. Now he goes down, hopefully on every count.
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Trump and his family were very successful in the criminal activities in which they wallowed in his youth.
It started with racial discrimination violations by his father’s real estate companies and progressed through various scams from lousy steaks to unfit airlines, thru non-educational universities to charities that he started and then stole the money from. But they were all on a local level and there was always enough money to bribe the right guys. Now, however he has moved up in class and in doing so has moved off his sweet spot. This isn’t slipping some building inspector a few bucks to overlook the safety violations on a faulty elevator. At this level there are guys with just as much money, and more, looking to poke him in the eye. Now he isn’t just fighting the law, he is fighting the guys on the other side who know the law, understand the power of the law and respect what the law can do for them and to him.
It is a lesson he never had to learn as a kid and one he never bothered to learn in politics. His sense of self is overwhelming, his ego too big for any room to hold. But he can’t bribe his way out of the cases pending against him, and he’s left to face the fact that it was his own mouth that got him into most of them. This is all too big for the spoiled, rich, punk, who never understood that he was only as strong as his father’s limited money.
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Asa Hutchinson, former Governor of Arkansas announced on Sunday that he would be running for President. Asa is not a complete idiot. He’s not a complete anything, and that’s part of the problem. He represents as just another semi religious shit-kicker, and we already have more of those than we need with Pence clogging up the air.
The Evangelist Movement, which at one point in history threatened to turn politics into a religious activity, has justifiably crashed, and to a great extent, burned. It’s still one hell of a money raiser but then the American public has always been open to being skimmed by any hustler worth the name. Many a “Reverend Money” has always made that point all too well. The problem with the evangelists has always been that they talked a great morality but often lived something quite different. Nobody really gave a damn, as long as it was only a string of teenaged sex toys but when it got into the State House where the money lived, it was a whole other matter. Now they have made the major mistake of backing Trump and have seen him MAKE AMERICA GROAN AGAIN, so they have a huge problem to face and nothing but wet noodles like Pence and Hutchinson to bring them back.
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When asked about his take on the Trump indictment, Joe Manchin managed to come up with every cliché ever coined to cover any situation even vaguely related to it. ”Middle Ground-Joe”, may yet be considering a run for the White House on some Independent ticket, but I think he knows enough history not to be fooled into exposing himself to that kind of hurricane.
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Cyrus Vance Jr. had a very busy week, explaining why he pulled the rug out from under the same investigation that has now moved to an indictment under his successor.
Don’t forget, the investigation, originally by Trump’s justice department, led to a conviction of Trump’s then lawyer Michael Cohen. Once Cohen was safely in jail and we definitely had a fall guy the Trump justice department asked Vance to take a time out, and put the case on hold, which he did. Unfortunately, it seems he never called “time in” again and so the investigation laid there like a lox until Alvin Bragg took over.
I find it fascinating that none of the Republicans, who are now shouting “politics” over the possibility that the criminal Donald Trump might be held accountable for even a tiny amount of his crimes, found any reason to open their mouths or make even a tiny noise when his lawyer was taking the rap for him.
There doesn’t seem to be any question that Vance’s office gave Trump a pass once they had Cohen as the sucker.
The GOP loves to whine about it all being political, but no one is throwing Trump in jail without a trial. He will have to be proven guilty by a jury of his peers before that happens. He isn’t being persecuted. He’s being tried, because evidence exists that there has been a crime committed and that trial will tell us whether he is guilty and should be punished or if he is innocent and should be released. That’s how we do things in this country. It’s too bad that the Republicans who are now carrying on like crazy people don’t recognize this. They should. There was a time when they were part of this system. Maybe there will be a time in the future when they return to America and try to become part of it again.
My question is: if trump is convicted and put in jail, will the secret service be put in jail with him?
Hopefully,
Snarlin Arlen Darlin