The Great Screenwriter In The Sky has certainly been busy this morning. This is just too comical as a side note. You’ve followed here how Donald Trump has shown up in court for closing arguments in the Trump Organization fraud trial. He insulted the judge and stormed out. Court will resume at 2:15 p.m. after the lunch break. It’s not known at this time if Trump will return or if he’s going to go back to Bedminster and sulk or just what. Alina is probably giving him an Adderall and rubbing his neck, “there, there.”
Meanwhile, across town in the Bronx, Mayor Eric Adams has been officiating in the renaming of a golf club, “Trump Links” to “Bally Links.” This is just one more step in the onward march of New York City and New York State divorcing the Mango Maniac who has been such an embarrassment and a thorn in their side for so long. New York Times:
As closing arguments began in President Donald J. Trump’s civil fraud trial in Manhattan on Thursday, his name disappeared from a golf course in the Bronx that had long welcomed drivers to the borough with a large sign reading “TRUMP LINKS.” The golf course is under new management, and Mayor Eric Adams attended a rebranding event on Thursday at the course, formerly known as the Trump Golf Links at Ferry Point. The new operator, Bally’s Corporation, revealed a new sign: “BALLY LINKS.”
The sign’s removal was another example of Trump’s withdrawal from New York City — the city he once called home and where he became a celebrity. Last year, Bally’s Corporation purchased the license to operate the 180-acre golf course that the city had tried, and failed, to wrest from the control of Mr. Trump’s company.
Mr. Adams, a Democrat who has been critical of Mr. Trump, did not take the opportunity to knock the former president on Thursday. But he made clear that he viewed the change as a way to boost tourism in the Bronx.
“Let’s make sure this is a turning of a corner of the greatness of the great borough with great people that have great expectations,” Mr. Adams said.
The change in management was welcome news to some Democrats in New York. Former Mayor Bill de Blasio, after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, tried to terminate the Trump Organization’s lease of the public golf course, arguing that the city had the right to do so because the former president had engaged in criminal activity. The argument failed in court.
The article goes on to say that the golf course is just one of many other “projects in the city that have expunged the former president’s name, including hotels and apartment buildings. In late 2017, the owner of the Trump SoHo paid to remove Mr. Trump’s name from what is now the Dominick Hotel.”
What is comical about all this is that Trump just can’t seem to get the wisdom of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln said,
“In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions.”
And right now and for some time, public sentiment has been going against Trump. Particularly in the Empire State. They’ve had to put up with him a lot longer than the rest of us. Talk to a New Yorker, they’ll tell you.
Let’s see if Trump returns to court after lunch or if his handlers decide that they better tranquilize him and put him down for a nap, with his blanky and his ketchup bottle. Maybe Alina can get him a Happy Meal with a toy and grind Valium into the fries.
Meanwhile, we learn that “Amer has moved to trying to show that Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. acted with intent to defraud. He says that evidence demonstrates that they played an active role in a 2021 financial statement that included fraudulent values. He is delving into emails that show Eric Trump had knowledge of the statements. Both Trump sons had denied any serious involvement in, or even knowledge of, the statements.” This is from the ongoing updates posted by the New York Times.
As Amer, the state lawyer, is explaining it, the case for Trump’s intent rests on his responsibility for the annual financial statements, Michael Cohen’s testimony and some of the gaps in Trump’s own testimony. But thus far, there is no real smoking gun that shows that Trump intended to commit fraud — the evidence is mostly circumstantial.
Amer moves on to Trump’s own testimony, in which he said he reviewed the annual financial statements, as well as that of Michael Cohen, the former president’s one-time fixer. Cohen said that Trump asked him to reverse-engineer his desired net worth by boosting the value of his assets.
This should be the concluding portion of today’s testimony. When Engoron is set to rule is not precisely known at this time.
A world without the Trump name.
Nirvana.
Nirvana is a world without hearing that annoying, whiny voice! And seeing that puckered rectum of a face.
You’re both right.
Allow me to.add,”And the news that Eric and Junior were eaten by a lion and Tiger respectively that wasn’t trained on their late st hunting trips.” Although frankly I suspect even quail raised in captivity could take the little gobshite down.
So is this another sign of trumps financial woes. Did trump have to sell the lease to Bally to keep up his cash flow? enquiring minds want to know.