Trump’s Downfall Explained In 56 Words For Your MAGA Friends

Pathetic is as pathetic does. The whipped dog that is the GOP frontrunner for their 2024 presidential nomination, sulked during court Tuesday morning and then moped out of the room after refusing to answer a reporter’s question as to whether he would ask his MAGA followers to stop their protests short of violence in the future. Donald Trump is on his way down. Yes, I know you’ve heard that lo these many years. But consider who has been entrusted with taking him down.

The GOP first and foremost is Dr. Frankenstein to Trump’s monster. That’s always been the case. They wouldn’t remove their monster. They let him insult a distinguished senator and Vietnam veteran who was captured and tortured. They let him degrade women in his “grab ’em by the pussy” tape, they let do everything except what he said he could do and not lose a vote — which is to shoot somebody in the middle of 5th Avenue.  Now, today, that very comment was essentially dissected in court. Trump’s entire argument and what’s wrong with it can be summed up in these 56 words. This is what makes no sense. And these are appellate justices articulating these thoughts. Axios:

Between the lines: This is where Trump’s “Fifth Avenue” worldview and legal arguments begin to converge.

• Under Trump’s reasoning, all it would take is 34 loyal senators to vote for acquittal in an impeachment trial and give that president unchecked power to commit crimes.
• “I think it’s paradoxical to say that his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed allows him to violate criminal law,” a skeptical Judge Karen Henderson noted.

If you missed the set up today, Trump’s lawyer, John Sauer, “suggested in federal court that a president could order SEAL Team Six to assassinate a political rival and — unless he was impeached and convicted by Congress — be immune from criminal prosecution.” So, in essence, that is what Justice Henderson remarked on, the obvious paradox that a sitting president is immune from the law himself. In other words, a sitting president is above the law.

That’s the argument, friends. Run those 56 words past the MAGAs and get them to explain to you: 1. How it doesn’t say that Trump is above the law. 2. Or, if they agree that yes, it says that Trump is above the law, then ask, is that right? And should all presidents be above the law, or only Donald Trump?

I would seriously like to know what a MAGA would say to this. The evening news shows are all over it, naturally. I think it’s pretty obvious the way that the appellate court is going to rule. And I think it’s probably pretty obvious to Trump as well. Be glad you weren’t born a ketchup bottle. At least not a Florida ketchup bottle.

This is how ridiculous it has gotten in this country. We actually have a man running for president who has lawyers arguing that he — or any president — can’t be prosecuted for assassinating political rivals until and unless they’ve been impeached — and convicted, and removed from office. Is your head exploding yet?

And over on right-wing media, Trump’s addle pated eponymously named son is arguing that “law, logic and reason” are all on the senior Trump’s side. How did we ever get to this Tower of Babel? But more importantly, how can we get out of it?

The legal process is the only way. The GOP gave up any semblance of leadership or morality a while back. So forget about them. Trump has no moral compass of his own. He is the grifter’s grifter, the conman’s con. So that’s how it has devolved down to the legal system and the judiciary.

But seriously, if you talk to MAGAs and if they say anything, whip out those 56 words and ask them to explain to you why Trump should be above the law. I would be intrigued to hear.