In an echo from the past Donald Trump descended the golden escalator in Trump Tower and went to the podium in front of a wall festooned with flags. He then proceeded to rave incoherently for thirty minutes. A lot of it was his usual drivel, how the nation is being overrun by millions of foreigners, refugees from countries who speak languages nobody has ever heard (hey, Donald, maybe they’re from outer space?) insane asylums, you know the drill. But he was particularly off the wall about the trial. Personally, I think he would have been better keeping his mouth shut today but somebody in his campaign decided this was good optics. Behold.

NDAs. Never leave home without them. Trump never does. And it gets worse. Trump describes an “army” of 29,000 people, mostly men, who are from Chy-nuh. Anybody know there was an invasionary force camped out? Waiting for orders, I guess?

Poor poor pitiful me. People should feel sorry for Donald. Poor little rich asshole who’s done his best to destroy this country with the aid of the worst group of Republicans ever to have an “R” behind their name.

Plus the “sleaze bag” crack might actually land him in jail. Justice Merchan was clear that any further violations of the gag order could result in incarceration.

“There was no anything.” Of course there wasn’t, Donald. There never is. Only mean people making up stories. Why are people that way?

Again, he should keep his mouth shut. If he, or his lawyers, made the decision he wouldn’t testify then that’s a done deal now. Opportunity come and gone. Case closed. Now this next one I love. “No presidential candidate has been under a gag order.” True. Nor have we ever had one that’s a convicted felon. But we do now.

Yes, he’s tired and he’s off his game. He’s a train wreck, in fact. But despite that, the GOP is pulling out all the stops to legitimize him and to de-legitimize our judicial system and the fair and above board process that took place in Manhattan this month and last. That’s the terrifying part. They have all jumped on board the Trumptanic, figuring that this lunatic is somehow, despite having been defeated in the last election and now being a convicted felon, is going to sail over an ocean of lies, in a sinking ship, and bring the election home. That is their gamble.

A few Republican voices of reason have spoken up and said that this is the last opportunity to pick somebody else for the top of the ticket, but they were shouted down. Then Mitch McConnell cast the die for sticking with Trump and later on Mike Johnson opined that this matter would “go to the Supreme court.” Johnson claims to be a “constitutional lawyer” so maybe he can explain how a state criminal case can go to the Supreme court. State courts are the final arbiters of state laws and the state constitution. Off the top of my head, I don’t know what issues of federal law or the Constitution were even mentioned in this criminal trial, so my kneejerk reaction is that Johnson is talking out his ass because it sounds good.

So that’s their play. The Republican party has decided to back this criminal in his quest for the White House, knowing he’s a criminal and they will lie to the American people about it and hope that we’re this stupid that we’ll buy it and return Trump to power.

I hope 2024 is a freaking bloodbath for the Republicans. I hope the GOP is wiped out at the molecular level. They totally deserve to be. They are a group of gangsters and their standard bearer is a convicted felon. Let that sink in.

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  2. Pssst…donnie…that ‘devil’ is going to pass sentence on you July 11. You may want to start kissing some ass. Spit in the Devil’s face and HELL is your outcome.

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  3. His witnesses were “literally crucified.” Literally?! Donnie, I don’t think that word means what you think it means! 🤨

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    • Just a reminder: Over a decade ago, even the staid Oxford English Dictionary amended its definition of “literally” to include “being used for emphasis rather than being actually true” and that definition actually has a fairly lengthy history. It appears in Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”: “And when the middle of the afternoon came, from being a poor poverty-stricken boy in the morning, Tom was literally rolling in wealth.” Somehow, I don’t think anyone is envisioning Tom is rolling around in a pile of dollar bills and coins and gems.

      That said, that phrase is hilarious coming from Mr Doesn’t-Know-How-to-Hold-a-Bible-Correctly himself.

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  4. Obviously the idiot doesn’t know what ‘literally’ means.

    NOBODY took his witnesses and nailed them by their wrists to a wooden post – THAT’s what ‘literally crucified’ means (he hasn’t a clue what ‘metaphorically’ means)

    Oh and I’ve said it elsewhere but I think a better idea than Don John going to jail: how about a couple of hundred hours community service. I’m sure the NY tourist industry would be happy with all the visitors coming to see him wearing a Department of Corrections vest and going round Central Park with a pooper scooper (oh and no travel out of state while he’s doing it).

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    • Sorry, Daithi. As I pointed out to Cleora Borealis, words change their meanings and even the OED has “caved” to the pressure and accepted the “wrong” meaning.

      By the way, did you know that, at one time, if I said you were nice, I’d be saying that you’re silly or foolish? And that being called naughty meant you had nothing before changing to being evil or immoral to now just being bad? And hussy was just a shortened form of housewife (I suppose some modern hussies can be housewives–it just depends on whose housewife she is)? Or that a spinster at one time referred to a woman who spun things (like on a spinning wheel) before it morphed into its current meaning of a never-married woman, especially an older never-married woman?

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    • I agree that community service would be the best punishment for the orange menace. Maybe teach him some humility (yeah, right!) but one day a week for four years and he can still campaign so he cannot cry foul. Work in a soup kitchen, clean up trash/poop, serve the poor that he hates so much, etc., are all ideas that would work. Plus, ONE 24-hour period in jail. Just to show him what he could have received instead and as punishment for violating the gag order over and over. The judge is a fair and honest man but I’m not sure he will push for the best possible punishment for the “people” to impose on orange man. I would love to see justice served.

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      • Not so much humility as the humiliation where he’s forced to be outside in full public view wearing a DoC vest and doing actual WORK (with no ‘executive time’)

        Oh and no golf cart – he’ll actually have to expend energy (well whatever minute amount he may have) and NO TWEETING while he’s doing it

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  5. Actually, I am hopping mad about how “the press” is covering this “press conference!” There is no press, there are no questions! There is a static camera and there are some still photographers, but, once again, “the press” is covering this non-event as an event. STOP IT!! Daily Beast, Yahoo, Rolling Stone and others used the words press conference, but they weren’t there and they didn’t ask questions! The Hill went so far as to say “a crowd of Trump Organization employees” cheered as he took the podium. I don’t know the people were in that photo, but #1. there was mostly dead silence in the room, even when Trump play-acted karate with the Secret Service in his limo on J6 and, #2. there is no such thing as a crowd of Trump Organization employees. We have been informed many times, including by people under oath, that T-Org. is 5 or 6 people in a corner of one floor of Trump Tower. Will “the press” ever get real about how small and alone this man is?! PLEASE!!

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  6. Looks sickly and exhausted. Will he actually make it to the July convention? There must be more than a few Republicans who are thinking the same thing.

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    • Golly gee, the MAGAPs have put all their eggs in this one basket. Whatever shall they do if it falls out a window, catches fire, and explodes?

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  7. Oh now I get it. He didn’t testify because he was afraid of being crucified for the second time. Now that the messiah has returned, he has smartened up. You godless heathens just wait…

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  8. Their backing him is about the VP. If he croaks or whatever, who takes over? That’s an obvious play that no one talks about but should incessantly. Or maybe not if this were to wake up the sleeping turncoat R’s that would return to the fold. And then there’s Project 2025.

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  9. I am actually shocked he didn’t claim Merchan, who was born in Colombia, is an illegal alien. He was,spiteful about the judge in the Trump University case,,claiming that because he was Hispanic, he hated Trump.

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