At the rape defamation trial today, Alina Habba demonstrated that you can't fake smart in front of actually smart people. This isn't to say that she's dumb, but she was just not ready for this trial. Now, maybe recently departed counsel Tacopina was supposed to take point on this and looking the whole thing over, realized there wasn't a great case when there was nothing left to do but try to mitigate harm to the client, and Trump insisted on showing his ass up and not being remotely helpful, but I think she is trying to help create the illusion of Trump as the victim here in a way that isn't especially sympathetic.
The argument that the plaintiff is just a fame whore who wanted this attention might be what Trump wants to convey, but the "she wanted this" part is...fraught with the idea that she, as a victim of sexual assault, wanted something from her attacker.
Juries sometimes surprise, though. I find the argument appalling, but then again, I'm a feminist with a real problem with rape culture. And yet, it is all around us.
This is one of those moments where the idea that Trump makes good choices or picks the best people wears thin, though. He talked to no one in particular during the trial (where he is not compelled to attend, which is why he has no especial need to be there if he has a funeral or any other pressing matter to attend to) and was advised by the judge that he could be tossed from the proceedings because he couldn't control himself.
To which Trump replied that the judge couldn't control himself, which is the way a person who can't control themself responds to a judge. And it makes me wonder why we have a major candidate for president, a former president--who can't control himself. An emotionally incontinent manchild.
Are the standards really so low? He's not supposed to control his mouth, his dick (he's a serial adulterer at least), what he says on social media, or what his little fan club does whether on 1/6 or with respects to going after journalists, lawyers, judges, politicians, election workers and possible rape victims of this angry little man?
And this is your leader?
Anyway, "syphilis" was trending on Twitter because stable genius displayed some interesting stigmata when he waved to the cameras:
Many possible reasons for this were suggested: venereal disease, leprosy, anxious skin-picking (OCD plus amphetamine abuse), blisters from golfing (feh--his golf callouses should have golf-calluses by now!) , friction burns from self-abuse (picking his Bonapart, or Dick Whittlingdown--meaning we should only see the other guy!) and my favorite--frostbite from being dumb enough to touched frosted metal with his bare hands in Iowa--likely as a man who also once stared at the sun during an eclipse after being told not to.
He only followed this up at a rally in New Hampshire by bringing up for the millionth time how good it is he can tell a giraffe from a whale. Person. Man. Woman. Camera. TV. Major insecurity that he doesn't, in fact, have a very good brain:
Trump brags that he “aced” a dementia test: they always show you the first one like a giraffe, a tiger, a whale. Which one is the whale? pic.twitter.com/lju83XxmiX
— Acyn (@Acyn) January 18, 2024
He looks bad because it is bad. His defenses for his various trials look bad because they are bad. His life is catching up with him. You can't fake smart--and you can't fake being in control when no, nothing is.
That is where he's at right now.
Putin, if you're listening--you should have got another one a while ago, because this one's broken.
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