Digging Deeper

THE EIGHTY THREE MILLION DOLLAR VERDICT against Donald Trump will prove to be the least of his legal worries. The highly vaunted American legal system tends to find and convict the guilty, while providing protections and oportunities for the innocent. Not only is there no conspiracy led by Biden out to get Trump, Trump has been given and is still being given every benefit of the doubt. The evidence presented by the prosecution in both the New YOrk financial fraud case and the rape and defamation case are overwhelmingly convincing, and in fact constitute proof beyond the shadow of a doubt. In order to continue to support Trump, his supporters must embrace the fantastical narrative that the entire American legal system is corrupt, and engaged in a massive conspiracy against Trump. This ploy becomes more laughable by the day, as does Trump's big election lie and the continued acceptance of it by his cult.They are desperate, and it becomes more difficult daily to defend Trump, and yet they persist, for now. It has now been proven that Trump has over the course of his adult life committed financial fraud on a massive scale, and has also been a serial sex offender. And yet, his cult following remains intact, amazingly. They use denial to disguise their moral bankruptcy. Perhaps, as the days and months proceed hence, and the even more serious felony charges against Trump are brought to trial and the public limelight, his cult will begin to wear down and flake off at the edges, members will begin coming to their senses and back to reality, and the whole MAGA phenomenon will wither and die, as it needs to for the sake of the United States. The number of women who allege sexual misconduct by Trump is long, more than twenty ladies, and the instances of Trump's financial fraud are numerous, a consistent pattern of criminality. But the more serious indictments than even those serious indictments are those having to do with Trump's theft and concealment of classified documents, and his attempt to steal the presidency and overthrow the government violently. Both, one would think, are punishable by death, being traitorous, and treasonous. Thousands of documents were found in Trump's home; he was caught red handed, so to speak. His violent insurrecton against the United Staes was witnessed live and in living color by millions of Americans, and by millions more people around the world. How much corroborated eyewitness testimony is required for conviction? Surely a hundred million is enough. This whole bizarre, psychotic business of millions of Americans supporting Trump more vigorously the more his criminality is revealed has a limit. Precisely what that limit is might be difficult to define, so instead we will have to be content to merely wait for it to happen, and see what happens.