TWGB: Are You Buying What He's Selling?

 

Donald Trump said he learned about murder victim Ruby Garcia's "contagious laughter and when she walked into a room, she lit up that room" from her family. The family denies speaking to him, and that language appears in her obituary as reported in Trump's beloved New York Post. pic.twitter.com/RjeuEdLdIW

— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) April 3, 2024

I think I want to start this one with a weird lie--Trump said that he met with the family of Ruby Garcia and they talked with him about her and--that did not happen. It really looks like he "remembered" stuff from an obituary he read. I first wondered if he was conflating meeting with Ruby Garcia's family with meeting with Laken Riley's family. That doesn't seem to be it.  He just plumb forgot, after a long history of telling fictional "Sir" stories about strapping big men with tears in their eyes who sing his praises, that if you talk about real people, they can contradict you. 

That's not normal. Most people would understand that you don't lie about something like that. Trump does not. 

Most people would not go out of their way to violate a gag order, either. Trump would, though He would continue to lie about the relatives of a judge in one of his trials, and even insist it was necessary for him to do so. It would seem like he's either really just too dumb to know when to shut up, or maybe he thinks getting tossed in jail will earn him valuable martyr-points. (Jail is bad. Peter Navarro says so.) 

My question today is--are you buying what he is selling? It's a simple question--is this guy Mr. Honesty?  Are any Trump fans ready to wake up and smell the bullshit yet? 

We've got some fun, fun, fun stories about Truth Social today. It was reiterated that yes, Virginia, Truth Social was carried over the finish line to the IPO date by Russian money. And this is connected to the brothers who just pled to insider trading, because that's a very auspicious way to start a business.  And if you want to know where Trump sits in all of this, it's suing the Celebrity Apprentice guys who hooked him up with this scheme for poor management. He wants their shares. The value of the stock he has might be slipping so he saw what they had and went:

You know how he does--possession being nine tenths and a third of the law, or whatever--oh wait: that's his Mar-A-Lago documents strategery!

I mean, that seems to be the Tim Fitton-endorsed thing that Judge Cannon (who, C'mon Aileen, is looking to get launched from this case by the 11th Circuit, if Jack Smith has his way with it) thinks passes for an explanation of the Presidential Records Act, and like, first, no, and also second, why would you say that, and third, like, gguuuuuurrrrrlll? 

So, here's some other stuff that happened today--Trump lost an immunity bid over the hush money case because he's late and already tried it. And I am to this day wondering how covering up your dalliance of years before you were president, starting with actions during the campaign, is supposed to be an official act of an office. That timeline does not work for me. 

Also in funny news, is Trump's $175 million that he worked so hard to get negotiated down getting rejected?  I don't have the spoons to chase this one down at this hour of the evening, but it looks like the financial statement the court is looking for isn't even about Trump--but the insurance company? Like, is the high-risk loan guys good for it? 

You guys are with me on this, right? What if the guy who said he was standing up a collateralized loan to Trump after loaning him X $100 mills other monies in the past, just can't verify how this loan is backed, regarding a case based on Trump falsifying his net worth and saying he has cash on hand he most certainly doesn't? 

It feels like a lesson in how financial shit like 2008 goes down. People investing in too big to fail debt whales like Trump. 

But just because people are still dumb enough to invest in his stock (tentatively--I see some fluctuations out there, no?) and maybe lend him money (or invest in future favors) are we all comfortable buying what this man is selling?

Because he's always selling. And he's always lying.