A couple of days ago, New York State Attorney General Letitia James made some serious headlines when she proclaimed that "The Donald Trump show is over."
Predictably, Trump haters saw in this the latest sign that King Con Don is being cut down to size. After all, who talks about him like that?
I would love to believe that she is right. Maybe he will have to pay a substantial fine indeed, following this case. And maybe, just maybe, he will get in even more serious trouble with the other trials that he is presently in with this legal case in New York.
However, I have never seen anyone get away with nearly as much as Trump gets away with. Again, he deserves to receive the full legal weight of his crimes, and most importantly his truly criminal role with election tampering in Georgia, and the whole January 6th fiasco. But he always seems to get away with it. I mean, this is a man who lies and lies and then lies some more. He makes promises and then doesn't follow through (Building the border wall and making Mexico pay for it, paying off the national debt within 8 years, and instead adding over $7 trillion to it in four years, failing to lock Hillary up, and ending the rest of the world laughing at us and commanding respect, then being literally laughed at before the entire world during a speech before the United Nations).
This is a man who has gotten away with blatantly treating women like shit, with making some blatantly racist comments about Mexicans during his original presidential luanch speech, discriminating against a whole religion with his immigration ban, having difficulty condemning outright Nazis, referring to literally dozens of countries in Africa and Latin America as "shithole nations," and briefly posting a video of one of his supporters yelling out "white power!" Remember, Trump received the enthusiastic backing of white supremacist organizations and high profile white nationalists, which itself is rather telling.
Any one of those incidents might have been a defining setback for literally any other president in recent American history, something that likely no one but Trump could recover from. But Trump somehow is emboldened by all of this. His most ardent, unquestioning supporters - one might hint at mindless support, or even cultish kind of support - clearly love and trust him all the more for it. The worse Trump behaves, the more his supporters support him. It's exactly the opposite of how it should be.
I mean, seriously. This guy does all of that nonsense, he obviously lies, is guilty of election interference (how can you justify him outright demanding that Georgia officials "find" him 11,000 plus votes months after the election ended?), and then planned and effectively launched an insurrection, an attempted coup, when it finally dawned on him that he was not going to be able to legally stay in the Whtie House. Yet, despite all of this, he is easily the frontrunner in the 2024 Republican White House race, and it is not even close. He actually would have a chance to win yet another term in office.
So as much as I would love to believe that, at long last, the "Donald Trump show is over," it feels entirely premature to say such a thing.
'The Donald Trump show is over': Letitia James 'will not be bullied'
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