He's also facing the E. Jean Carroll civil suit in NYC over his defamation of self-described rape victim E. Jean Carroll. The judge in this case has agreed to anonymity for the jury based on Trump's already egregious behavior regarding judges, prosecutors, witnesses, you name it. Because he acts like a mafioso. As with the Bragg case in Manhattan, this case highlights how horrific he is to women.
I really wish people were more aware of this.
Anyway, there is still the potential for indictments to drop in either the Georgia grand jury case, where racketeering and a broad cast of characters being looked at for indictment figure, and the obviously bad Mar-A-Lago documents case. I am not actually crouching on a case of champagne waiting for those things, but it would be neat, right?
And then there's the odd thing about Trump filing to block Mike Pence's testimony to the Special Counsel regarding J6--why? Is there a problem with the very honest man Trump had as his Vice-President testifying about what might had led up to that day? And if so why?
Enquiring minds would like to know. After all, it always has struck me as strange that Trump's impulse is always to obstruct or delay the release of facts about whatever it is he's been up to while he claims he's a pure as the driven snow, and his little fan club hasn't yet caught on and said: "Put up or shut up."
Anyway, I think it's already been demonstrated that executive privilege appeals are going to fizzle. And with interesting results. I know Trump wants to plead all his cases to the Supreme Court because he picked a third of them, but OTOH, has he offered any really good vacations lately? (I mean really!)
Anyways, it is starting to look like the season of finding out for Donald Trump, and the season of fucking around is going to have to stop (I know that Trump is loving the idea of courting a gag order re: his running down the DA and judge in his Manhattan case, and I bet his attorneys would LOVE THAT FOR HIM. Also he kinda is earning it.)
And in other weird news, why hasn't he filed his financial disclosure yet? (Truth Social is a bit of a struggle-launch, isn't it?) He's going to be like this the whole election, isn't he? His supporters better start asking the questions that are logically piling up. And just deal with the reality that they don't really know if they are funding a campaign for president, or just the legal fees for a serial criminal.
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pretty sure he thinks he's gonna be president again; if he drags the process with interminable delays and appeals, he can pardon himself.
November '24 IS a long way off yet but tRumps approval rating dropping to 25% doesn't seem like a positive message for his campaign - particularly since the indictment didn't give the malignant looser any bump in the polls as the FAUX and GQP talking heads claimed it would. And in any case it's fortunate that tRump can't pardon himself if convicted of crimes at the state level.
Yes--Trump has created a bubble for what I call his "lil" fan club based on Trump's own estimation of himself, but his self-estimation is way off the mark. What's sad is, I think some of his firmest clingers-on are also pretty convinced that if they can just keep his reputation somewhat alive through the primary, they can also get him into office with a revised and updated 1/6-like program of sham elector/vote challenging/lawsuit shenanigans.
If the 2000 election came down to Florida, that was fixable. 2020 was a pipe dream--he lost too many states and by too much. I don't know that 2024 Trump will have any leg to stand on, after all the previous shenanigans have already been revealed and discussed. I think his current defenders are digging themselves a hole, and um. I love that for them.
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