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Midnight in Mar-a-Lago [1]

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Date: 2023-08-18

By David Glenn Cox

I don’t know about you, but I feel insulted. The largest liar and prevaricator in the known world tells us he’s going to hold a news conference. (yet again) And prove once and for all his claims of a stolen election. The Indictments are flying everywhere, and the charges are piling up like cord wood in the corner and Trump tells the crowd (yet again) Wait! I have in this little black bag, the proof we’ve all been waiting for.

Wait, wait, didn’t Rudy Giuliani once host a series of these grand reveal’s? And the pillow guy AKA henceforth known as “the fucked broke guy.” Announces, “The killer was absolutely the butler!” The F. B. guy hosted many, once in a lifetime grand reveals of evidence which never actually materialized. I remember a conference he (the F.B. guy) was sponsoring a year or so back, before all the money was gone. The broke guy made everybody drive into the middle of nowhere to hear the grand conclusive elusive evidence revealed beyond a reasonable doubt. No kidding this time, no fooling!

Basically, shoveling air with a pitchfork, Wait, wait! We’ve found some new evidence this time! Notice nobody is inviting the F. B. guy down for a gratis fun-filled week at their Florida vacation paradise and mausoleum. To talk about the old times and remember the good old days. The fucked broke guy is used up and is accordingly scratched from the list of friends. It seems to be a process where everyone comes out that same door eventually. Lighter in cash or reputation potentially facing criminal charges, but wiser in the ways of the world.

We are all at the wiser end of the process here. So, I take it as an affront for Trump to say at this point, on the advice of counsel. When did Trump ever listen to legal advice before? He’s decided to let his lawyers do his splainin for him? I bet the lawyering room was in a meltdown mode over the prospect of Trump speaking publicly again about his legal difficulties.

But why give us the lame excuse? Just cancel it and put it down the memory hole and move on. Or do an Elon Musk and make hyperbolic claims that nobody remembers in a week. It means the gravity is sinking into the old guy’s head. It might be a trick of light and camera, but in the recent photos Trump appears to be tired and haggard. Or maybe, it’s just a plot by the Trilateral commission and George Soros to make it look that way?

Trump has declined an invitation to attend the Republican debate aka, The New Jerry Springer Show. Trump has this thing sewed up tight in a bag. Trump could campaign naked and still win. Trump is up by thirty points on some of these clowns, why should he share his spotlight with them? “You boys, and girls just fight it out amongst yourselves. I‘ll wait over here.”

With Trump in attendance, the stage would look like a big kid stuffed in a too small a desk with the little kids. Without Trump each of our finalists will now read from their essays. “What I’d do, if I ran the world!” Wishful thinking and mindless meanderings of misbegotten miniscule miscreants. Trying foolishly to change minds in a Party where the minds are already made up.

Without Trump its Wrestle mania without a main event. The hotly contested battle for third place. Falling star Ron DeSantis had his debating points leaked. Attack Joe Biden, defend Donald Trump and try to get off a couple of snappy one liners at Vivek. Real science stuff at work. But what about the altitude problem? Ron’s a little on the less than tall side and standing in a lineup could illustrate that. Missing from the DeSantis debate notes, Remember to remind the folks about your anti woke war and your fight with Mickey Mouse! Tell them more about that!

For the Fox News network, it’s a sure disappointment as the partisans would certainly watch faithfully and the millions of curious would also tune in just to see what the big ape does next. Even without Trump’s attendance, how do they dance through the gilded minefield of Trump’s legal charges? Chris Christie says Trump’s a liar and Ron DeSantis is set on defending Trump. How do they keep the debate from becoming a referendum on Trump? He’s still there on stage, even when he’s not there at all.

The gravity begins to sink in, and Donald Trump grows strangely quiet abandoning his chance to speak extemporaneously to the waiting press and public. That speaks volumes, on the advice of counsel I’ve decided to shut the hell up. To make attacks only on personalities and procedures but ignoring any and all relevant facts of my many cases.

Skating on the edge while inciting his followers to violence. If something were to happen to someone associated with Trump’s legal difficulties the pressure to jail the former President would be overwhelming. The tide of public opinion is already flowing out and further violence wouldn’t be tolerated. It illustrates the desperation and depravity, Trump casting his fate to the vicissitudes of the lowest common denominator or a nut with a gun.

It’s midnight in Mar-a-Lago and the spirits are restless and quickly running out of options.

“This is the end, beautiful friendThis is the end, my only friend

The end” – Jim Morrison

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