News Item: In New York on Friday, Trump lashed out again at E. Jean Carroll, the woman he was found to have sexually assaulted and defamed, saying the attack never happened and, besides, had he wanted to commit such an assault, “she would not have been the chosen one. She would not have been the chosen one.”
Trump’s latest vulgarity prompted a note from my old friend Bush Hog James:
The judge’s decision to delay Trump’s sentencing in the New York fraud case until a date that falls after the national election is unfortunate but understandable, given the nature of the primary actor in this drama. I suppose Trump and his allies consider this judicial ruling a victory. But, given recent performances, wherein Trump is given to somewhat unstructured and vulgar utterances, his absence from the campaign might have been a good thing for him.
One would think that Trump’s handlers — if anyone can be said to handle Trump — must have weighed the danger of having Wild Thing loose on the campaign trail against the value of reinforcing the candidate’s very favorite campaign theme — victimhood. “How,” Trump could have whined from jail, “can there be any justice for anybody when I’m in the clink? So unfair!!”
Not only would the American people have been spared the daily exercise of figuring out what the mouthy Trump just said, the diet at Rikers Island would have helped him lose a few pounds. Alas, opportunity lost.
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He will never learn or change, I worry about his supporters.
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Worried about his supporters? In what way?
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if the worry is about what they might do, as in being violent, I share that worry. But presumably these are all adults having made choices, however shortsighted and ignorant those may be.
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