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This is simply not going to end well for Trump

A lesson Trump should have heeded.

I'm going to do something I pretty much never do on this here site: Post two pictures of twice-impeached, 91-times indicted, loser of the popular vote twice Donald J. Trump.

Here is a picture of him as court began yesterday:


My God. Look at those eyes. He is drugged up to the gills. He was either pumped up with stimulants to get him to court, or depressants to sedate him.

Why depressants? Well...


Sleepy Donny, amirite?

And then there was this exchange between him and Judge Juan Merchan:
This routine warning is devastating to Trump. He is a man who has been accustomed to deference and wide freedom. He has spent his life doing whatever he's wanted to do, and getting away with it. As satisfying as the civil judgments against him have been, this is on another order. This is the state in its role as upholder of the law telling him that he is nothing but a citizen facing a criminal trial. He will get no special dispensations. His delaying tactics have run out of road. Now his fate will not be in his hands, but in those of twelve fellow-citizens. For a man who has skated freely for over seven decades, this is the ultimate indignity. He is not Donald Trump, 45th President of the United States. He is Donald Trump, criminal defendant. He is Donald Trump, ordinary hump brought up before the court. He is now no different than every other gonef who has passed before Judge Merchan's bench. He's a nobody.

This wound to his psyche—and I don't want to get ahead of myself here—may be terminal. Up until yesterday it was all theoretical. Now he's in the dock, and not for a civil complaint. His very freedom is at stake. And no Hail Mary, like one of his fans lying his or her way onto the jury, then voting to acquit and hanging the jury, will save him. He will have to rely on the skill of his attorneys, on their ability to convince a jury that reasonable doubt exists. Except it doesn't. The facts are clear. This isn't a case of "was he there when the murder was committed". His one-time consigliere, Michael Cohen, has already been convicted in this case, and has fingered Trump. His actions are not in doubt. And district attorney Alvin Bragg's prosecutors will easily make the connection that his payment to Stormy Daniels was not to spare his family embarrassment, but to remove a hurdle to the presidency. They will connect the dots that this was corrupt election interference.

The stress of sitting in that courtroom, day after day, as his life is eviscerated by prosecutors and witnesses, may just be too much for him. It may cause that final psychotic break. He's already barely cogent. This will hopefully be his end.

So, raise a glass to karma. Her workings are slow, but they arrive.

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