The Bigly Day Came

So Donald's 1st trial is finally upon us.  He shuffles for the cameras in the court vestibule complaining that the Judge won't let him go to his son's graduation.  This terrible Judge.  I think perhaps Donald might need to get used to not going places.  It will likely be his future for the next 6 weeks and  maybe even longer than that if convicted although opinion is divided as to whether he'll get a custodial sentence for this one.  The long tedious one about business records and hush money payments...

It seems a slight anticlimax now the trial has come.  For in a world where Iran, Israel and Gaza are at war whilst war in Ukraine rumbles on Donald's fate seems like small beer.  He doesn't even make the front page or the 2nd or 3rd.  Newsnight and Panorama skip it over.  No crowds are lining up round Manhattan to support him.  A few detractors shout slogans and wave banners.  Just as they did or didn't for his civil fraud trial.  This isn't January 6th - it's 6 weeks of legal process...The novelty of seeing a former President being ushered into judicial buildings has waned.  The pedestrian business of jury selection shuffles on.  Donald says nothing to avoid being held in contempt and even seems to be falling asleep.  As Orson Wells would have said - Something had happened. A thing which, years ago, had been the eagerest hope of many, many good citizens of the town, and now it had come at last; Donald J Trump was getting his comeuppance. He got it three times filled, and running over. But those who had so longed for it were not there to see it, and they never knew it. Those who were still living had forgotten all about it and all about him.  For such is the way with Justice and Vengeance, we often wish for them dearly only to be disappointed by their reality because when justice comes the perps disappear and new ones fill their vacuums.

It's hard too not to feel some sympathy for Trump.  All he wanted to do was pay off a porn star, the problem is he did it with company assets and that's a crime ... because within Donald's companies there is no clear line between the companies and himself.  Just as in the Classified Documents case Trump seems to not have been able to distinguish between the government's records and his own.  Just as there is no clear line for Trump between winning or losing elections by a lot.  Trump simply absorbs everything into himself and becomes more and more self absorbed ... by a lot.