The mouth on him
Judge Tanya S. Chutkan agreed to temporarily lift the gag order that had restricted Trump’s public statements about special counsel Jack Smith, his team and witnesses while she considered a motion from Trump’s lawyers to suspend it entirely while they appeal.
So the giant toddler did what a giant toddler would do.
Within 48 hours, Trump issued a new broadsideattacking the prosecutor, Trump’s first since the gag had been imposed. On Sunday, he took to his social network Truth Social to attack Smith in the exact terms that the order had prohibited, calling him “Deranged Jack Smith.”
When he was born the announcement should have been not “It’s a boy” but “It’s a bully.” He’s the bulliest bully most of us have ever witnessed. The need to insult and belittle and cover in filth is the core of his being. He’s a pinhead with a gigantic store of spite and venom.
Trump’s campaign has been aggressively fundraising off the gag order. Though it declined to specify how much it raised, Trump’s campaign sentout more than three dozen pitches that mentioned the phrase in the last month.
Heads they win tails we lose.
Sadly, 40% of the American population, including vast swathes of country where we are told that the true Americans, the salt of the earth, live.
Example: 30 miles south of rainbow flagged woke Olympia, WA are counties where 76% of the population still voted for this felon. Amazing.
The ONLY thing that will shut him up is a real and viable threat, and because of his cult’s willingness to bankroll his fines, that means that this will continue until a judge declares him in contempt and jails him overnight. I’m fairly certain this would nearly break him–like most bullies, he’s tough talk, but really a coward. But the judges know this would be a major line to cross, and are reluctant to do it, even when clearly justified.
It’s weird that it would be a major line to cross though. I know it would be, but it’s weird that it would. He’s a prolific criminal; he’s very low value in every way that counts; he’s done nothing but harm and evil when in office. He crimed his way to the presidency so now he’s untouchable because he crimed his way to the presidency.
“The President is not above the law” was the essential truth that Tricky Dick Nixon of Watergate fame had so much trouble understanding. But Tricky was an intellectual giant when compared with Trump..
He was. Word is he was actually very intelligent.
I still have my doubts about Trump becoming incarcerated, but if he is, his Secret Service detail will have a novel situation to manage.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/donald-trump-secret-service-former-presidents-1.6808177
Nixon had some good qualities, and actually did some good. All of that was far outweighed by the bad, of course, but still his evil was nowhere near Trump levels.
(Of course, they had some of the same mentors in evil. Roy Cohn, Roger Stone, and Roger Ailes, to name three.)
Nobody’s evil is near Trump levels. He’s sui generis.
WaM, in some ways it seems like the bad outweighed the good, but when I consider the good that the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act have done, I think in the longterm, perhaps, that might not be the case.
Although I do think his bad deeds paved the way for Trump, which then would definitely outweigh the CAA, the CWA, the Endangered Species Act, and EPA all put together.
iknklast,
Yeah, those are two good things that happened during his watch, though I don’t know how much credit he deserves. I know he signed them into law, but I get the impression that Congress would’ve overridden him if he had vetoed them. On the other hand, he appointed Rucklehaus to the EPA, so he gets credit for that.
The other majorly good thing he did was opening up to China, and for that I think he deserves the lion’s share of the credit.
As for paving the way for Trump, I suppose there’s something there, though I think their motivations were very different. Nixon was the ultimate insider, and he cared very much, probably too much, about politics and how history would judge him. Trump, well, you know.