Trump's Troubles

The former Child-in-Chief posts (Truths, I mean) on social media calling reporter Maggie Hagerman "Maggot."

Dude is garbage.

...Maggot Hagerman of The Failing New York Times, falsely reported that I was disappointed with the crowds. No, I’m disappointed with Maggot, and her lack of writing skill, and that some of these many police aren’t being sent to Columbia and NYU to keep the schools open and the students safe....

 

I'm going to leave that first tweet on replay all day. What a sweet sound. Nothing can be more crushing to a malignant narcissist like Trump than to hear that chant.

 

Today is the argument on whether Trump is truly anointed, i.e., whether he has absolute immunity to act contrary to laws that bind lessers, before the High Priests who rule on such Divinely invested attributes, a/k/a the Supreme Court.

When cert was granted, it seemed DT could take power electorally. Then they likely thought all they had to do was delay this process in order to bring about the new nation, conceived in bondage, and dedicated to the proposition that all men were definitely not created equal.

Then they might have issued a more moderate fatwa ultimately. But with things less certain now, they may feel the need to be more explicit that the laws that protect them do not bind them, at least the Anointed One.

 

Right there with you

 

He openly mocks his own supporters, and they still stay with him.
The whole psychology of his support base both baffles and frightens me.

 

The same people who scream at the top of their lungs against DEI initiatives, screaming for merit, are the ones who are full of glee at seeing this stuff.

 

Not a legal trouble, just weird.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/24/trump-key-to-white-house/

On Tuesday, Trump left the Manhattan courthouse where he’s attending his criminal trial and headed uptown to Trump Tower. There, he had a meeting with former Japanese prime minister Taro Aso. This was part of Trump’s increasingly explicit shadow-diplomacy efforts, his engagements with foreign leaders aimed at building relationships and positioning himself on the international stage as he seeks reelection to the presidency.

Trump's presidential campaign sent reporters a “readout” of his meeting with Aso — itself a mirror of how presidents summarize meetings with foreign leaders — and included the photo below.

Yes, Trump gave Aso a key to the White House. Whether he offered the same patter about Aso presenting the key at the White House gates is unknown. (A question sent to the campaign about the encounter did not receive a response.)

This is, simply put, bizarre. Mayors give out keys to their cities to noteworthy individuals as a symbolic gesture, but it seems safe to say that they generally stop doing so once they leave office. After all, the city isn't theirs to offer up. Yet here's Donald Trump, acting as though he's simply renting out the White House to President Biden and letting Aso know that he's welcome to stop by and use the bowling alley anyway.

 

Can't say I blame other nations for hedging their bets as another Trump term is certainly possible. A razor thin election and just a handful of states will decide it in the electoral college.

 

Mark Meadows, Rudy Giuliani and Arizona 'fake electors' charged with state crimes

Trump is an unindicted co-conspirator in this case which could change depending on SCOTUS cases and the election.

This operation touches both Trump's 2020 campaign and therefore the White House. Note that early texts behind the masterminds called them "fake electors" until someone pointed out that "alternative electors" might give them some legal cover.

 

If it gets delayed past the election, we will likely never know. SCOTUS dragging it's feet on issuing a ruling on the immunity question might just accomplish that.

 

Wish a justice would ask Sauer “If Biden orders the assassination of your client would that be an official act?”

 

We are either a nation of laws where no one is above the law, or we are not. Pick a side scotus.

 

No chance of changing minds, cults gonna cult.

The Trump vote is locked in, the question for Biden is if he can draw enough turnout. I view it as 50-50’ish. I think a Trump victory would expedite a Venezuela-like collapse. Literally everything he proposes is suicide to economic and political stability ( a political “loyalty test” for govt workers… some might call that communism, mass deportation of immigrants who work construction and ag, etc). If he actually got his way on all that the economy would grind to a halt. The one reason Trump didn’t cause so much damage in term 1 was his incompetence, and some decent people around him as a “check” on some of his crazier whims. There wouldn’t be decent people in a 2nd Trump admin. It would be 100% criminals and bootlickers.

 

I am not an expert but seems the court on immunity is not going well. More concern from conservative justices over inconveniencing Trump than protecting democracy.

 

Sadly funny. To be cross-posted