The Bigly Jury Selection

A man burning himself to death outside the Manhattan courtroom seems to symbolise all that is wrong with King Maga and his cult.  To be fair the man also blamed Joe Biden and some hidden den of illuminati conspirators or something but he reminds me of Nikki Haley’s observation that “chaos” follows him.  Perhaps less chaos will result in the longer term as the walls close in on Donald.  

The jury is selected now and most of the alternates, the wheels of justice that seems to turn as slowly as the hour hand of a broken clock have speeded up suddenly of late as Judge Juan Merchan rattles through procedures like a fast-talking car salesman in a nineteen-fifties film comedy.  Perhaps someone has told him that whilst the establishment don’t want a former President convicted of a felony, if it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well it were done quickly.  One wonders if the Supreme Court are looking on in preparation of their next aural consideration of Donald’s claim of absolute Presidential immunity next week…  

Unable to take the stand because he’d be eviscerated in cross-examination it looks like Donald is going to have to sit there mute occasionally falling asleep and (according to at least one reporter) letting out the odd bigly fart.  Well, I suppose, if he can’t incite violence with his words cracking off a silent-but-violent eggy one is the last line of attack.  Talking of violence, he’s also up for a contempt hearing with the Judge next week for continually violating his gag order which he, of course, says is a violation of his rights by a lot.  They only attack him, because he fights for you.  He’s said it before and he’ll say it again… because it’s not a big lie unless you keep repeating it.

I’m not sure why I have become fixated with the trials of Donald Trump of late but I keep recalling his use on his first inauguration of the phrase “America First” which seemed to me a scary kind of dog whistle at the time – it being the name of the isolations/pro-fascist/appeasement movement before and during the Second World War fronted by Charles Lindbergh.  So history repeats itself – first as tragedy, then as a TV mini-series. I wonder who will play Trump.  Laurence Fox in a fat suit?

Meiselas: What I’m hearing from credible sources is that Donald Trump is actually farting in the courtroom… I’m hearing it from actual credible people that as he’s kind of falling asleep, he’s actually passing gas and that his lawyers are really struggling with the smell. pic.twitter.com/wa6F3iRDgX

— Acyn (@Acyn) April 19, 2024