Donald, where's yer hairspray?
The Beeb tells that “In January 2021, Mr Trump was recorded on a phone call asking Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to ‘find’ 11,780 votes - the number he would have required to beat Mr Biden in that state. The indictment outlines an alleged scheme to tamper with voting machines in one Georgia county and steal data … It also mentions an alleged scheme to submit false lists of electors, officials who make up the Electoral College that elects the president and vice-president”. Some serious alleged criminality.
This time there will be a mug shot. And don’t forget all the other trials: “Earlier this month, Mr Trump was charged by federal prosecutors in Washington DC with conspiring to overturn the 2020 election, which he lost … trial in Florida on 20 May on allegations related to his handling of classified documents”.
The Donald has pleaded not guilty to all charges. And there are still pundits, politicians, lawyers and sundry hangers-on who are prepared to appear on Fox News Channel (fair and balanced my arse) to declare their outrage that the laws of the United States also apply to their hero Trump.
Not only that, but there will no doubt be yet more of those pundits and politicians across the North Atlantic still prepared to speak in support of the former President who tried to subvert the democratic process while claiming that everyone else was crooked, conducting a witch-hunt against Himself Personally Now, and had lousy ratings, the very worst ratings ever.
After all, there have been so many of them ready and willing to shill for Trump in the recent past. The roll of shame makes for lamentable reading: at the increasingly alt-right Spectator magazine, Freddy Gray has already advanced the pretence that The Dems Done It, asking dishonestly “How long can the Democrats keep Trump in legal limbo?” Sod all to do with the Dems.
Who is so out of touch with reality that he has claimed “Joe Biden has sowed more division than Donald Trump ever did and emboldened Putin”. But one pundit who will not want too much attention to be paid to his back catalogue of Tweets (or are they now Xs?) will be former Screws and Daily Mirror editor, and now obscenely overpaid TalkTV host, Piers Morgan.
Who was still excusing The Donald earlier this year: “Ridiculous. It was Biden who ordered and executed that horrendous overnight evacuation. To blame Trump for it when it happened 8 months after he left office is laughable”. That there would be a US evacuation from Afghanistan was down to Trump.
Have another go. “President Trump was the victim of a shocking stitch-up by the FBI and much of the media over the ‘Russia collusion’ nonsense”. Bullshit. But he does want us all to remember he interviewed Trump so many times! In other words, free promotion for an allegedly serious criminal.
And, like Trump a congenital liar with no redeeming features, former Brexit Party Oberscheissenführer Nigel “Thirsty” Farage has made some real pearlers fibbing about Trump. Like “Trump’s greatest legacy is that he restored faith and trust in politics. He made promises and kept them”.
Or “The arrest of Donald Trump will only help him get re-elected in 2024” (Farage got it wrong in 2020, of course). With The Donald’s career now going in one direction only, it might be thought that these buffoons might think on and dissociate themselves from the former President. But no.
They promoted someone who nearly trashed US democracy. And they can’t manage even a muted “sorry” between them. I’ll just leave that one there.
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We have to add ghouls such as Iain Duncan Smith, who poured scorn on those protesting in the degenerate life form in 2016 and Jacob Rees-Mogg who said if he were an American, he'd happily vote for the orangey gangster.
ReplyDeleteA sick far right country that, the "United" States of Amnesia.
ReplyDeleteSo is its yapping poodle, the "United" Ruritania of Britain. Aka The Mouse That Squeaked To Order.
Trump, Shmump. One urfascist is much like another on both sides of the Atlantic, north or south.
I've seen it suggested elsewhere that it only takes one dissenting voice to produce a hung jury leading to a "must acquit" ruling.
ReplyDeleteDon't write him off yet. He'll be beaming off the steps of the White House next year, you watch.
"UK Media Fave WILL DIE IN JAIL"
ReplyDeleteNo he won't. You're wrong here.
US "democracy" was trashed long before the current mobsters made it even worse. It took the decisive turn toward urfascism in Dallas at 12.30pm on Friday, 22nd November 1963. Events since then speak for themselves. The result is organised mass murder perpetual wars, inflicted poverty and legalised theft and rule by a tiny oligarchy. Genuine democracy doesn't exist, only a thin sham reduced to platitudinous public relations slogans and hypocritical bullshit. In truth it has always been that way, only the reactionary intensity varies.
ReplyDeleteUltimately that will be the only US "contribution" to Western "civilisation".
If Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, the Bush dynasty, Clinton, Obama and Biden can stay out of jail there's no reason why Orange Face can't. Even when he's guilty as hell, as they were.
ReplyDelete'Urfascism' (no definition) took its first steps on Kennedy's death, did it?
ReplyDeleteI'm afraid that events *don't* actually 'speak for themselves', Anonymous, nor do you make any attempt to speak *for* them. You'll have to do better than that.
But it must be comforting not to have to worry about the possible return of Trump as there's clearly no 'real democracy' in the US for him to subvert, undermine, destroy or otherwise befoul. Thanks, that's a weight off my mind!
And of course, unlike Biden and those other Blue Republican Quislings, at least Trump shares your own (oft-demonstrated on here in the past) soft spot for the Russians.
Triple Moskovskayas all round!
(Cue metropoliphobic rant).
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ReplyDeleteAwww, lighten up me old Micawber McCarthyite.
Meanwhile, try this: https://scholarworks.arcadia.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1048&context=agsjournal
Then read up on contemporary US history. You can find better sources than the Daily Heil and Murdoch Scum.
I've see speculation that if in jail when elected, he could pardon hinself. The presidential oath of office would have to be administered first though which could presumably be withheld.
ReplyDeleteThe curio in all this is that Brian Kemp, the Governor of Georgia, upholding Georgia's legal action against Trump is the beneficiary of the voter suppression of Black voters in that State.
ReplyDelete@Arnold: presidential pardons can only be given for Federal crimes. If Georgia succeeds in locking the tot-tanded terrorist up it'll be for state-level crimes and thus there’s not a thing he can do about it.
ReplyDeleteBertie, I know we've had our differences in the past but, even that aside, your rant there is one of the most deranged I've seen on these boards. Perhaps indicative of a lack of a degree, I am not sure.
ReplyDeleteAnd there was a guy who had a full on two day meltdown that another commentator didn't like someone called Phil.
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ReplyDeleteMark, I was long ago advised by a wonderful tutor thus:
ReplyDelete'Avoid letting implication become your principle means of communication, if for no other reason than that many of the people you are communicating with will be hampered by various degrees of obtuseness.'
Whenever I read one of your baffled but sniping comments I'm reminded of him and his words. Thank you.
Your wonderful old tutor didn't however advise you of the difference between principle and principal. Or of the importance of brevity and clarity.
DeleteYou might impress the punters in Wetherspoons with your long words, but you merely confuse the rest of us. Are you actually Russell Brand?
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ReplyDeleteA "wonderful tutor" in the Alf Garnett Jellied Eel Institute.
Oh my aching sides.
ReplyDelete@15.45. See 16 August 18.10
Not exactly on cue, me old Cloggie, but better late than never.
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ReplyDeleteAwww, don't do y'self down me old Micawber McCarthyite. You can ALWAYS be relied on to be on reactionary cue, like old Joe himself.
"Wonderful tutor" or not.
ReplyDeleteYou're easier to wind up than a self-winding watch, mate. But it's 'splendid fun' doing it nevertheless.
Now away and have your tea. And that whippet isn't going to exercise itself, neether.
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ReplyDeleteI bet you look lovely when you get all red faced Gammon angry.
That's enough of that - Ed.
ReplyDeleteI'm afraid I don't know what you're talking about Bertie.
ReplyDeleteDo try and stay on point.
Precisely, Mark.
ReplyDeleteThat's what 'obtuse' means. And that's why my tutor was so right.