You know, sometimes life doesn’t imitate art, sometimes life imitates stupid. In the last 5 minutes, Rachel Maddow just blew the doors off of exactly how stupid, ignorant, and paranoid Dolt 45 really is.
She started by reading from a court deposition with His Lowness in the hot seat. The plaintiff’s began by showing a video of a Trump rally, in which Trump implored his rabid crowd that should they see anybody in the audience getting ready to throw a tomato at Trump, to Kick the crap out of them. The plaintiff’s attorney asked Trump if he really wanted his audience to engage in mob violence if someone even appeared to be ready to chuck a tomato at the stage. Trump replied, Yes, because anything that is thrown can be dangerous or deadly. What if it wasn’t a tomato, but a banana or a pineapple? People can get killed that way. Trump spent the next three minutes of the deposition defending the idea that flying produce could somehow be lethal.
The deposition took place 6 months ago, run by plaintiffs who were suing Trump and his goons for beating the shit out of them during a peaceful demonstration in front of Trump Tower when he was running for election in 2016. Trump never denied that he instructed his security to take physical measures against anybody for even appearing to throw an object, no matter how non lethal at Trump or the building.
Is it just me, or is this just freakin’ insane? If we are to believe Traitor Tot, a handful of Skittles thrown at Trump or the stage represent a potentially lethal weapon. I gotta be honest. I’m a former stand up comic, as most of you well know, and I have had my share of swizzle sticks and ice cubes hurled at me after a joke, but I never feared for my life.
But Rachel wasn’t done yet, not even close. She spoke of how the Manhattan District Attorney’s office was still scheduled to go to trial against the Trump Organization and Trump CFO Allen Weisselberg late this summer on bank fraud charges. Trump is not yet currently charged, and neither is Matthew Calamari.
But in a deposition, Trump maintained that he, and he alone negotiated the terms of Calamari’s employment with the Trump Organization. And Calamari’s employment terms just happen to mirror the terms of other people who are about to go on trial. The Manhattan District Attorney’s grand jury looking into the Trump organization expires on Saturday, although the DA could always empanel a new grand jury.
But while the Manhattan grand jury expires on Saturday, the Fulton County special Grand Jury empaneled by Fulton County DA Fani Willis will convene on Monday. And the Fulton County Sheriff isn’t fucking around. He announced that starting on Monday, the streets bordering the Fulton County Justice Center would be blockaded. Non necessary trials and procedures will be moved to satellite courts in the area. The Fulton County Sheriff clearly wants to forestall any violence around the courthouse from brain dead Trombies.
And here’s the cherry on top of the sundae. Today, a New York Judge found that there were inconsistent variances in the ratings that several Trump accountants used to provide property values to his properties. Read that as, How can a golf course be worth $16 million for bank loans, and yet only be worth $2 million for tax and insurance purposes. That ruling gave New York Attorney General Letitia James free rein to go into that aspect of the Trump finances as well.
What goes around comes around. Trump is a small potatoes, arrogant, narcissistic blowhard. He got through for 40 years by being too small of a fish to bother going after with law enforcement. But now, all bets are off. And the chickens are about to come home to roost.
[Ursula’s Note: Here’s the video, if you missed it. Drop dead funny. I love that Maddow says, “I’m not smart enough to make this up.” That’s what I say every day as I shake my head, “If only I could make this up, I’d be running Hollywood.”]
I worry less about the common fruits. I worry more about those star fruits & those ignored daily by all of us. Nevermind. I’m just having flashbacks. Comes from re-reading the first chapter of Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas. Who hasn’t had acid turn on them at some point? Seems Donnie is having the same problem with paranoia that too many uppers can cause. Did that banana just move ON ITS FUCKING OWN? Where’s my bastard son with his elephant gun? I need to settle down & plow through some KFC. Grease is a great lubricant for life.
“If we are to believe Traitor Tot, a handful of Skittles thrown at Trump or the stage represent a potentially lethal weapon.”
Sounds like Trump’s a Marvel Comics fan. There’s an assassin character named Bullseye (the character even appeared in the Ben Affleck “Daredevil” film, played by Colin Farrell) who can literally turn ANYTHING into a lethal weapon–it’s kind of his trademark. If anyone could find a way to turn Skittles or a banana into a lethal weapon, it would be Bullseye.
Don John probably thinks that ‘The Attack of the Killer Tomatoes’ was a documentary
I think we’d have a shorter list of what former guy is not terrified of…