Desperation

How desperate is Donald Trump in his bid for re-election against Joe Biden?

Let's examine the evidence:

• Trump tried to stop his niece Mary from putting out a book about what a soulless sociopath he is.  It didn't work.  Mary Trump was barred from granting interviews about her book, but that didn't last long.  She's been all over TV promoting her book.  It sold a million copies in a day.
• Trump banned hospitals from sending information about COVID-19 to the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta and ordered that the date be sent directly to the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington in an apparent effort to control the new flow about the disease. One thing he can't control, however is the rising number of deaths from it,which are expected to reach a quarter of a million by the end of October.
• Trump demoted his campaign manager, digital-media wunderkind Bill Parscale, in favor of former Chris Christie confidant Bill Stepien in an effort to reverse his slide in the polls.  This happened even as a new Quinnipiac poll showed Biden ahead by 15 percentage points, 52 percent to 37 percent.
• And now Trump says he may not accept the election results if he loses.

Like any wild animal, Trump is vicious when he's merely wounded.  He'll do anything to win at this point.  He could let the Postal Service shut down to discourage mail-in voting. He could get the Russians to hack voting machines.  He could make a statement designed to gin up the stock market.  He could find a way to resurrect Tara Reade in the news media or find some other woman to make a sex-assault accusation against Biden.  And one thing I could definitely imagine him doing is getting some crazy rapper to run for President to dilute the black vote, but we all know that's not going to work out.

Oh, wait . . . :-O