Did anybody really tally up the week Trump just had?

Aug 15, 2022, 8:07 AM

Trump has had some bad, bad weeks. But this last one he just had may have taken the cake, and for anybody who's wondering how he might do in courtrooms, the answer seems to be: about like he did in election challenges, where Team Trump went 1-for-61.

Trump's long been considered indefensible in the legal world, and it's showing. He's inarticulate, he lies so much and tells so many versions of the truth he can't remember which one he told two sentences ago, he's undisciplined and willful and rarely takes his own lawyers' advice...and oh, yeah, he lies repeatedly to his own lawyers too and as such is often either throwing them under the bus or putting them behind the 8-ball because they themselves have no idea what their own client has actually done or said and as such are constantly ambushed by it. (You think that poor lawyer that signed off Trump had turned over all documents knew Trump was still holding his favs? No way, no how. And now that lawyer is on the hook for those sins.)

In short, he's just about the worst client ever...which means the serious ones won't work for him anymore, since to represent means you're going to not just lose but to do so in humiliating lopsided fashion, and especially since he's got a habit of not paying them afterwards.

And oh, yeah. He's guilty. So very, very guilty. Of so very many things.

That's the reason it just makes you shake your head watching the GOP try to circle its wagons around this clown. Actually "clown" is a bad analogy, it's more like a sinister, evil clown in a fireworks warehouse, and that warehouse is on fire. It's like: don't you wanna save yourselves here? You might wanna be a mile or so away from this cataclysm before it, you know, goes off.

What is the GOP doing? Is party leadership really some kind of death cult?

Just consider the week the Donald's had:

1) Donald Trump took the Fifth 440 times in that tax-fraud deposition in New York State that could literally close down Trump Org. Bad sign.
2) After almost seven years of wrangling, Donald Trump finally ran out of road with his taxes when a circuit court finally ruled Congress's Ways and Means Committee can, at long, long, long last, get a look at his taxes. That feels like it's about 500+ crisis ago, but it still could be bad trouble for the Donald.
3) Trump's 2016 campaign staffers were notified they are now freed from their NDA's and are now free to dish about anything they saw. And there was some Wild West stuff going on there. Keep in mind Paul Manafort was running that show.
4) The FBI raided Trump's resort in Mar-a-Lago and discovered (wait for it) Top Secret and past-Top Secret documents at his residence. Those documents are rumored to be related to nuclear freaking weapons.
5) Trump claimed governmental overreach and claimed political prosecution, demanding transparency...whereupon the Attorney General offered to disclose the warrant and receipt. Placed in the bind of either having it come out eventually anyhow and looking like he was trying to hide it or taking the hit now, Trump did not contest the release, and it came out the warrant was executed under the statutes of the espionage act, obstruction, and the theft or destruction of government documents. Yowsah.
6) After claiming "all the FBI had to do was ask" for any documents they wanted, it came out they hadn't just asked, they'd also issued a subpoena, and his own lawyer had signed off that all government documents had been turned over.

I feel like I'm missing stuff, but that's the highlights. Any one of those would be a bad decade for the most of us, for Trump it was just an ordinary Monday. Or Tuesday. Or Wednesday. Or...you get the point.

I've seen legal hot water, but this is just...ridiculous. And guess what: included in all that is not one mention of January 6th. Which of course hasn't gone away. Rick Scott got his phone seized somewhere in that Week of He!! as well, and a Who's Who of witnesses like Pat Cippolone have been called before grand juries there too.

This is not good for a guy who's something like 1-for-200-or-so in his last court appearances.

I hate to tell the MAGA faithful: but stuff in Trumpworld is not okay right now. Welcome to Monday.

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Oh, completely agree there. Trump was a symptom of a myriad of societal woes we're still diagnosing. Some are obvious. You've identified several with some posts that really illuminated how our debt-based economic system has enriched the wealthy and destroyed the working class. (I always read everything you write, you've got remarkable insight.)

But he's also the villain at hand, and the best solution for those who try to challenge the rule of law is to demonstrate the inevitability of it by making an example of those who flout it.

Law is a balance, IMHO, between ideals and rules and order enforced by, well, force. If it isn't fair, people who care about fairness don't believe in it, and if it isn't strong enough, people who care only about strength don't fear it.

To me that's what Trump was: he might look like a coarse loser, he might have zero morals, but that unremorseful outlaw swagger that allowed him to flout the rules and seemingly get away with it is exactly what drove people disaffected by the system to him in the first place. He was a loser who somehow won. If the law pulls him down, it's a massive symbol that no one is above the law...not even their cult figure. Which is of course why so many of them are so incredibly upset at the moment. It's necessary if we have to preserve our democracy long enough to actually fix it. And the vultures are gathering, both within and without.

Those same people, I have noticed, really struggle with the idea that Joe Biden isn't any kind of symbol, he's just a guy in a suit doing a job, the guy a lot of interests that have very little in common could live with, and if he falters, he'll be replaced by another suit doing the job.

Mind, I don't love the kind of suits that get the job, and if we're looking for solutions that's probably where we need to start. Career politicians, IMHO, are exactly what paved the road for Donald Trump. The fact that these career politicians are now beholden to dark money as opposed to We The People is maybe an even bigger problem.

Did anybody really tally up the week Trump just had?

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You're losing it, and we're all loving it***

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Let me tell you how much I care about Donald Trump's week

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Trump is a symptom of a much bigger problem

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Dude, you're getting close to it...***

Maybe because X-45 is a malignant tumor going stage 4

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Re: Maybe because X-45 is a malignant tumor going stage 4

OR maybe just maybe.....

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Your opinion.

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Lots of Republicans wish they could put the genie back in

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I just hope this means that he is not running again***

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I really hope he doesn't run again

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