Before beginning this post, I thought it prudent to read some that I had written about then president, now ex-president Trump. It was a not so happy stroll down memory lane but important in that it provided some perspective for me before continuing this post.
First, I found a reference to Michael Cohen in one of the posts, which made me smile. Partly because I said some not so nice things about the ex-fixer, someone who was one of Trump's personal lawyers for over a decade in addition to being one of the Vice Presidents of Trump Organization, a curious fact to consider when you hear Trump apologists accusing Cohen of being a liar (he was convicted of lying on behalf of his employer), and bad person. Was Trump that bad at evaluating his employees that it took 12 years to figure out Cohen was willing to do anything for money? Or was it just that Trump was the perfect employer for such behavior. (I truly hope Michael Cohen is able to reverse his karma, but sometimes a few moments of truth telling isn't enough to counter balance decades of cheating and lying).
I also found a reference to Trump's use of the Fox Network to spread his lies about, to name just a few, Obama's birth place, election fraud, the danger of mail-in ballots, the deep state, his business acumen, his business dealings with Russia and China...
What makes me note this reference is the fact that Fox is being sued by Dominion for their repeated airing of lies about the integrity of Dominion's voting machines, a fact that Fox viewers won't see covered on Fox news and opinion shows. Obviously, we need to make sure that the First Amendment's protections for freedom of speech, especially for the "fourth" estate, remain strong, but for those who want to dismiss this suit as a threat to those protections, it might be better to consider that the first amendment is only strong when it can be used to determine when truth and the sincere search for truth are protected, not when the pursuit of the "green" as Rupert Murdoch testified, is the goal of speech via a news show. (Most people already forget that in the Smartmatic lawsuit against Fox, part of Fox's defense was their claim that their hosts were merely part of their entertainment staff, and that their opinions should not be considered news.)
Anyway, for today's post, I would like to offer the opinion that, while accountability may finally be beginning for the ex-president, and that whatever transpires as a result of the Manhattan DA's case, it is the much more important indictments that should follow when the Georgia Attorney General reveals that grand jury's recommendations, and when Jack Smith's dual investigations, the classified document and insurrection investigations, which will account for the real accountability that all who love American democracy are hoping.
What is truly amazing is that even now, as recently as the Waco rally last weekend, Trump still lies about the election, still claims he won "by a landslide", still continues to sow doubt in our democratic system of government, all because he is the epitome of a sore loser.
But my bigger point is this. I believe with all my being that no one wants Donald Trump to be indicted more than politicians like Ron Desantis, Lindsay Graham, Mitch McConnell, and perhaps even Kevin McCarthy, and certainly Rupert Murdoch. They all know that Trump is full of s**t, is a scourge on the american political scene and has no compulsion about taking down the GOP, not to mention America itself, but are too afraid, too cowardly to take him on directly. They need him gone, but need to show allegiance in their outrage at current and forthcoming indictments, because they need his base, his MAGA followers to maintain power.
Desantis especially, is the most desperate for Trump to be removed from the political scene. He is already telling deep pocketed donors (behind closed doors of course) that he is Trump without the baggage, but doesn't have the guts to call him out in public because he needs the MAGA base.
In public he declares he won't cooperate with an extradition order, should it come to that, but in private he is hoping like a 4 year old on Christmas eve, that Santa brings enough serious charges against Trump that he can't run again.
But Desantis and McConnell and McCarthy and Murdoch are wrong on two fronts.
First, The Donald will never quit, indictments or not, and second, his cult will never switch their allegiance to any of them. As my wife often says, Frankenstein has been loosed, and there is no bringing him back. It is only the grim reaper who will end Trump's assault on our democracy, and even then, those who have truly gone down the rabbit hole, will believe Trump is just biding his time somewhere on the sly waiting for the right moment to rise again.
They say that only death and taxes are certain. Well, he cheats on his taxes, and while, he won't cheat death, he will live on in the dark recesses of the internet for quite a while after he shuffles off this mortal coil.
No, I am not advocating for someone to take his life. At this point, I find myself toggling between sorrow and pity for the man. He is sick, perhaps not in the head, but certainly in the heart. He has tasted the power of the presidency, and the assumed power that Trump believes places him about the law, and is now obsessed with regaining it, through whatever means.
But yes, I am also afraid of him and his hold on the millions of his followers. We know he is not opposed to calling for violence in his name, and we know, as he once proudly stated, the people with guns like him. Chaos is his biggest weapon, a chaos that strikes fear in those in the GOP that know better, but lack the courage to face his wrath.
I titled this post, Accountability Finally?, not because I think it is imminent but because I don't actually think it is coming, hence the question mark. Donald Trump will never be held to account, not because I don't think he won't be indicted, but because he will simply never acknowledge it.
He doesn't acknowledge his loss in the 2020 presidential election, he won't acknowledge the right for him to be put on trial, and he won't acknowledge his loss in the presidential election in 2024. And sadly, neither will the members of his MAGA cult.
Here are links to the 4 posts I read before posting today in chronological order of their posting.
https://wurdsfromtheburbs.blogspot.com/2019/05/dear-president-trump.html
https://wurdsfromtheburbs.blogspot.com/2020/07/dear-mr-trump.html
https://wurdsfromtheburbs.blogspot.com/2021/01/fake-newsreal-facts.html
https://wurdsfromtheburbs.blogspot.com/2021/01/one-last-call-for-trump-to-resign.html
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