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.
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