Donald J. Trump, previous president of these United States, is now fighting not just for his freedom, but also for his livelihood.
But who is to blame for his predicament?
91 felony counts in 4 jurisdictions, both state and federal
New York State: Fraud civil case — Trial proceeding now
Defamation and Sexual Assault (Carroll Case II) Adjudicated against defendant
Defamation and Sexual Assault (Carroll Case I) Coming in January, 2024
Ballot Disqualification cases in Colorado, Minnesota, Michigan, etc.
ACN Class-action (Doe v. Trump Corp.) Lawsuit
Eric Swalwell Incitement Suit
Reps. Karen Bass et al. Incitment Case
3 Capitol Police Officer lawsuits
Metropolitan Police Jan6 Riots Lawsuit
NAACP Lawsuit
And a partridge in a caged celllllll…………
Obviously, he has nobody to blame but himself….……..
………….and his inveterate racism.
And when did Trump’s racism become political?
One word:
Birtherism was Trump’s “foot-in-the-door” of a populist movement, originally devised only to expand his brand……..and make him more money.
Did Trump start birtherism?
No.
Did he take advantage of it, to the extent that a sitting U.S. president ultimately felt the need to release his long-form birth certificate to the world?
Yes.
Was this the beginning of Donald J. Trump’s national political career?
Arguably, yes. (forgetting his ridiculous “run for president” back in 2000)
Could he have successfully started a national campaign for president based on issues, policy, experience and competence?
What’s yer point? You may be asking.
Well, my point is, that had Donald J. Trump NOT been an inveterate racist, he wouldn’t have used the racist birther-movement as a launching-point for his 2016 presidential run.
And he wouldn’t have been thrust into the incredibly acute scrutiny of being a U.S. president.
A situation he is said to have been………..”dubious” about.
Donald J. Trump could have gone on, taking potshots at his perceived enemies, getting all the loans he ever wanted, and using his brand to aggrandize himself and his family.
Until he dropped dead of a french-fry lodged in his aorta……….
Instead of having to plod through four years at a job he had no talent for, didn’t expect to win, and didn’t even want.
And he wouldn’t now be facing what he is currently facing:
And remember, January 6th was only ever about retaining the power of the presidency, so that he could avoid prosecution for another 4 years, for all his past crimes, committed BEFORE the election (SEE: Mueller Report).
Ironically, he did all this to retain the awesome power of a position that he never even wanted. And never thought he’d win……..
There is an article written about election-eve, 2016, by Michael Wolff
Donald Trump Didn’t Want to Be President
One year ago: the plan to lose, and the administration’s shocked first days.
Election Night: It “looked as if he had seen a ghost.”
On the afternoon of November 8, 2016, Kellyanne Conway settled into her glass office at Trump Tower. Right up until the last weeks of the race, the campaign headquarters had remained a listless place. All that seemed to distinguish it from a corporate back office were a few posters with right-wing slogans.
Conway, the campaign’s manager, was in a remarkably buoyant mood, considering she was about to experience a resounding, if not cataclysmic, defeat. Donald Trump would lose the election — of this she was sure — but he would quite possibly hold the defeat to under six points. That was a substantial victory. As for the looming defeat itself, she shrugged it off: It was Reince Priebus’s fault, not hers.
She had spent a good part of the day calling friends and allies in the political world and blaming Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee. Now she briefed some of the television producers and anchors whom she had been carefully courting since joining the Trump campaign — and with whom she had been actively interviewing in the last few weeks, hoping to land a permanent on-air job after the election.
Even though the numbers in a few key states had appeared to be changing to Trump’s advantage, neither Conway nor Trump himself nor his son-in-law, Jared Kushner — the effective head of the campaign — wavered in their certainty: Their unexpected adventure would soon be over.
Not only would Trump not be president, almost everyone in the campaign agreed, he should probably not be. Conveniently, the former conviction meant nobody had to deal with the latter issue.
As the campaign came to an end, Trump himself was sanguine. His ultimate goal, after all, had never been to win. “I can be the most famous man in the world,” he had told his aide Sam Nunberg at the outset of the race. His longtime friend Roger Ailes, the former head of Fox News, liked to say that if you want a career in television, first run for president. Now Trump, encouraged by Ailes, was floating rumors about a Trump network. It was a great future. He would come out of this campaign, Trump assured Ailes, with a far more powerful brand and untold opportunities.
“This is bigger than I ever dreamed of,” he told Ailes a week before the election. “I don’t think about losing, because it isn’t losing. We’ve totally won.”
Corroborated by Trump’s closest ally at the time, Michael Cohen:
Updated 7:00 PM EDT, Mon June 15, 2020
There’s a bit of reporting in Mary Jordan’s new book on Melania Trump – out tomorrow! – that should put to rest, once and for all, the idea that Donald Trump always knew he was going to win the 2016 election.
Writes Jordan:
“The election night win came as a surprise even to Trump, according to many on his campaign, and little preparation had been done for what came next. Trump had even talked about going to one of his golf courses in Scotland immediately after the election so he didn’t have to watch Hillary Clinton bask in her success. One campaign aide recalled that candidate Trump had ‘told the pilot [of his private jet], ‘Fuel up the plane.’ “
Look. There’s been ample reporting over the past few years that Trump had no clue that he might actually win – from the scramble to write a victory speech to the utter chaos of his presidential transition effort.
Jordan’s reporting adds another brick to that very tall, very beautiful wall of evidence.
Trump was not, in fact, some super genius playing three-dimensional chess who saw, all along, the path to victory when no one else in the political world could.
He was just doing what he always does – projecting irrational confidence and then, in retrospect, insisting that he knew he had it all along.
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But let’s finally put to bed the idea that Trump was anything but stunned that he won. Anyone who claims otherwise is engaging in the sort of myth-making on which Trump has built his entire life.
The monumental irony, is that he brought all of this upon himself because of his cocktail of mental disorders, most of which can be described by one in particular: narcissism:
- Have an unreasonably high sense of self-importance and require constant, excessive admiration.
- Feel that they deserve privileges and special treatment.
- Expect to be recognized as superior even without achievements.
- Make achievements and talents seem bigger than they are.
- Be preoccupied with fantasies about success, power, brilliance, beauty or the perfect mate.
- Believe they are superior to others and can only spend time with or be understood by equally special people.
- Be critical of and look down on people they feel are not important.
- Expect special favors and expect other people to do what they want without questioning them.
- Take advantage of others to get what they want.
- Have an inability or unwillingness to recognize the needs and feelings of others.
- Be envious of others and believe others envy them.
- Behave in an arrogant way, brag a lot and come across as conceited.
- Insist on having the best of everything — for instance, the best car or office.
And narcissism is incurable.
That’s the REAL Trump-brand.
He will continue to narcissist his way through his civil suits, and narcissist his way through his four criminal trials, and narcissist his way into holding on to the wife who keeps “modifying” her prenup with him, and narcissist his way through his 2024 presidential campaign………
Ultimately, he will narcissist his way into bankruptcy and prison.
There. Is. No. Bottom.