TWGB: Trump the Loser

 

This previously unseen footage shows Congressional leaders—both Republicans and Democrats—as they were taken to a secure location during the January riot.

Everyone involved was actively working to address the violence. All of them did what President Trump refused to do. pic.twitter.com/fcF4zBLGWm

— January 6th Committee (@January6thCmte) October 13, 2022

The violence on 1/6/2021 was premeditated, serious, and was addressed by Congressional leadership while they were under siege and working to ensure that the business of state--the confirmation of the legitimate vote, was continued. This leadership included Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who indeed tried to get the National Guard of nearby states to respond to the affray. 

(I am pointing this out because people who were actually there later had the stones to imply that she--who would be every bit the target of such a mob, was the one responsible for rejecting the assistance of the National Guard. They knew better and they lied to protect their little gutless loser President.) 

That mob was inspired by Donald J. Trump, who made up his mind before the election that he would just declare victory and lie his ass off about the results. Why? Vanity? Spite? Fear of his house of bottom-dealt cards falling in?

A little bit of all of the above?  This was a man who spent his entire presidency surrounded by scandals of his own making that he dearly wanted to blame others for. Like the Russian collusion mess. The one he seems to be using as an excuse/pretext for his stolen documents problem right now (which is unresolved in that he may still have documents not yet turned over and is being investigated under the Espionage Act).  (Also too, he's already in deep because he seems to gone out of his way to obstruct justice multiple times on this one, so, he knows they are not his docs and he is too dumb and bad to just give the game up.)

I know, right? We're back to "Russia, Russia, Russia"--oh, honey, we have never left. After all, the first impeachment in part was about trying to get Ukraine to investigate whether Ukraine, not Russia, actually interfered in the 2016 election to set things up to look like he was really colluding with Russia, which is pretty rich and barkingly mad on its face given the state of things. And this is the kind of bullshit line of inquiry DOJ's John Durham is, groaningly, doggedly, pursuing to this day.  (It's not going great and it was never going to. It's a conspiracy theory ginned up to pave over the obvious and already documented truth covered by several volumes of a Senate Intelligence committee.) 

Anyway, Trump is getting subpoenaed, and it's really up to him how he wants this to play out. I mean, he can fight it. But if he does, it's to avoid eventually sitting down and pleading the Fifth the way he did when he sat down in New York.  You know, for that case that made him nervous enough to try and re-form his business down in Delaware as Trump Organization II to keep doing his shenanigans. And he should be called out for the gutless loser he is if he does try to dodge--after all, he has not kept his mouth shut about what he thinks went down in the 2020 elections, or how he reacted to it--so why not present his case with courage of his convictions?

(Except for the cowardice about getting convicted?) 

He keeps telling his followers he's "fighting for them" and if he sees accountability, it means bad things will happen to them, too. Bullshit. He's been fighting for his own thick neck this whole time, and nobody cares about "getting" his followers unless they were dumb enough to incriminate themselves alongside of him. Following Trump down his path to perdition isn't an obligation, it's a choice. 

He just has to make sure his scheduling an appearance with the 1/6 committee doesn't interfere with any appearance he has to make regarding his defamation case regarding E. Jean Carroll. (With respects to which, he never has surrendered a cheek swab for his burdensome DNA, has he? And now that he has made the same defamatory statements post-presidency, is DOJ still in his corner, or no? Because I think our tax money is better spent than supporting his various defenses of his so-called character.)   Or anything that comes up with his failing and under investigation SPAC social media deal. 

To my mind, Trump wanted to stay president because he though it meant having the means to never fear accountability again. Except, attaining and trying to hold the presidency by the means he chose has focused more attention and trouble upon him than he has ever known. Every step of the way, all the "fighting" and obstruction was to save himself. He endangered the Congress on 1/6th, but more than that, he endangered our democracy. 

For his own skin. He never put America first, unless by that one means, putting America before himself to stand in front of a threat. He should not ever live that down. He should forever be recalled as a gutless loser, who threw bodies at the government he was supposed to serve to try to reverse his loss, and tragically, caused lives to be lost. 

And the gambit never saved him moment of legal trouble anyway--and that is something he richly earned.