Sure, he was deposed in the defamation case brought by E. Jean Carroll. I note that he spewed the same comments against her, now, as a private citizen, that he did when he was president, and kind of hope that means his defense that he said what he said as a defense of himself as the holder of the officer of president goes away, now that he has said the same thing as a private citizen. I also don't see any indication that he turned over a DNA sample. It just seems to me that if the DNA sample was the thing that definitively "set him free" from her claims, he wouldn't be loath to provide it--so what's the deal?
There was a time when this kind of scandal might have rocked a political career, and still, the mainstream media treats this man, the one-term twice-impeached self-described pussy-grabber--as a completely viable 2024 presidential candidate, even while he is under investigation for stolen government documents under the Espionage Act, his business is under investigation in a civil case in NY, his conduct related to the 1/6 insurrection attempt is under investigation by the 1/6 Committee, and his attempt to fraudulently disrupt the Georgia vote count is under investigation by a grand jury in Georgia.
The problem is, this baggage is hardly surprising, because it is just no different from the baggage he already had, that everyone and his brother was ignoring in 2015-2016. Anyone who wanted to know about his sexual profligacy, serial adultery, multiple bankruptcies, vexatious litigations, assorted shirked payments for services rendered, cases brought regarding fraudulent or insufficient services--like his Trump University scam--were widely available.
And they all became background noise because there were just too many entirely horrific Trump scandals for any person to keep up on (unless you are me, which is something I just feel sick about, to be honest). The net effect of being literally the worst person in the world to ever run for president actually worked in Trump's benefit: it weighted expectations for him incredibly low.
Think about it--any other president: Stormy Daniels? Done! The Mueller investigation: Done! Blackmailing another world leader for dirt on a political rival? Done! His entire administration was extraordinarily corrupt. He was a pathological liar. HE STILL IS A PATHOLOGICAL LIAR!
So I eventually developed a grand unified theory of how Trump still exists as a valid political entity after all this, and the answer is: he lowered expectation in his political stock by being junk up front. No one took him seriously, so no one expected that word of mouth and "branding" would get him over in the primaries. He's like when GameStop stock peaks or something. He's like if NFT's were a person. There's no good reason he should have caught on like he did when he did, but unlike weird financial properties, a human being can get into an actual political office on a freaky bubble. And then it/he owns real investment value.
Just by becoming president, he overperformed expectations, but those expectations stayed spectacularly low. He literally has never been judged by the same values as other political figures, because we always knew he was glittery trash. Take the stolen classified documents: he had people chanting that Hillary Clinton should be locked up for something he has now engaged in to the (n)th degree. He was literally caught with at least thirty boxes all told of documents, on two occasions, the second time after swearing there were no more, and his little fan club simply does not care. The mainstream media can't even get it up to appreciate the enormity of it. A former president has secret docs, for no good reason. Maybe regarding weapons systems, maybe that would reveal our assets in the field, maybe that would reveal our clandestine methodologies to people who could use that to capture and harm our people working for us.
He managed to salvage his reputation by means of a distributed risk program of always being in so much trouble no one ever could fixate on what the main complaint was. The problem for him is, he has so diversified his karmic portfolio it was bound to eventually pay him dividends. From at least one or more of his various irons in the fire.
His die-hard fans don't mind that he's the Muscovian Candidate and sound a little like they are talking about Raymond Shaw when they (Q-pilled rally-goers) talk about him: Donald Trump is the kindest, warmest, bravest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.
But this week, he was also deposed for an MLM scam. He was served for his fraud trial in NY, and subpoenaed by the 1/6 Committee. His buddy Steve Bannon was sentenced for ignoring his subpoena for that committee, and his good buddy Lindsey Graham just asked the Supreme Court to please not make him talk to the grand jury in Fulton Country. John Eastman had to fork over more emails to the 1.6 Committer because they fall under the fraud/crime exception to attorney-client privilege, in part because Trump himself signed a document with figures regarding fraud that Trump was already counseled were wrong.
I feel like something's got to give. I just don't know what. But once it does, a lot goes with it.
(IMAGE from: Trump Card | Donald Trump | Know Your Meme.)
No comments:
Post a Comment