Trump: The Trial

Well, that was fast!

Donald Trump's trial on election interference in the 2016 election to buy the silence of a porn star (I believe her name is Stephanie) and a Playboy model is set to begin tomorrow, thanks to a jury selection - including alternates - uch swifter than was expected.  The federal 2020 election interference trial is likely not going to happen before the election, but who cares when Manhattan District Attorney has such a strong case that will likely get a conviction and get Trump put under house arrest in Trump Tower (alas, he won't end up in a state prison and become somebody's bitch!).

Don't get out the popcorn, though, as the trial won't be televised.  But the commentary will, so if you want to watch that go ahead.  If you still want to get out the popcorn, go ahead, knock yourself out.  And don't worry about Trump, he'll be fine.  He'll mostly sleep through it, just as he already did during the jury selection process. 😁   

Lawyers, Sex and Money

The first criminal trial of Donald Trump (and likely the only one that we'll have before the election) finally gets underway tomorrow, with selection of the jury . . . which will likely be as exciting as watching paint dry.

But never mind that.  The conventional wisdom about this case is that it is the least serious and most trivial criminal case Trump faces.  Maybe.  But everything's relative.  Saying that this is the least serious case to affect Trump is like saying that "Rock and Roll All Nite"is Kiss's least sexually offensive song.  (I'll just say that the line "You show us everything you got" has nothing to do with asking a woman to display all of her Royal Doulton dinnerware.).  Because the bottom line is that Trump paid a porn star and a Playboy model to keep quiet about the sexual trysts he had with them and he got his lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen to arrange for buying their silence.  And he did that to make sure that no one would know about his infidelity against his wife Melania while she was taking care of their newborn son.    

This is as much election interference as the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol. 

Trump is afraid of this trial because it will likely uncover more sordid information like removing a rock uncovers all of those nasty beetles you find in your garden.  And you can bet that jury selection is going to go very slowly because of his defense doing what Trump's lawyers do best - stalling for time. 

More Trial by Combat?

Donald Trump is likely going to avoid indictment in the Mar-a-Lago document case, seeing as the revelations of documents found in the homes of Joe Biden and Mike Pence have made Trump's transgressions look less serious.  The grand jury in Georgia investigating Trump's interference in that state's 2020 election promises "massive" revelations, which is likely made moot by a pending bill in the Georgia state legislature to allow the removal of black district attorneys like Fani Willis investigating white Republicans like Donald Trump (and grand jury forewoman Emily Kohrs' Valley Girl-like demeanor in TV interviews on the subject likely didn't help matters any).  With those investigations seemingly stuck in limbo, the first indictment Trump likely faces is an indictment incoling hush money given to a porn star he had a tumble in the hay with?

This case is so inconsequential, even the Justice Department wouldn't take it.  Yet Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who likely had a strong case against Trump for financial malfeasance before he decided there was no there there and dropped it (which caused several jaws to drop), is likely going ahead with an indictment that, like the twin impeachments, will inevitably lead to an acquittal.

Or maybe I'm wrong.  Why would Trump encourage his supporters to protest if he is indicted?   

And if that happens, we could get a riot that burns down Times Square.  Even though there have been riots in New York as in other cities, I can't ever recall a riot in modern times that leveled Midtown Manhattan.  Downtown Newark, yes.  Midtown Manhattan, no. 

And if that happens, the outcomes of the documents and election interference issues will be completely irrelevant, because Trump may be indicted for inciting yet another riot.