“Any plan for the future, therefore, which seeks to calm troubled waters will have to sweep barriers away, rather than pour oil over turbulent tides.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Are you ready for the circus? Chief Justice John Roberts may be presiding, but Mitch McConnell is the ringmaster, and crooked Mitch -- despite swearing an oath and signing his name in a book -- has already made it very clear that he’s not interested in impartiality, evidence, testimony from witnesses or any other standard aspect of a “trial.” Trump added a pair of odious legal personalities to his defense team, Ken Starr, of Clinton Impeachment fame, and Alan Dershowitz, pal and defender of Jeffrey Epstein, the deceased pedophile. Perfect casting. Slimeball on slimeball.
America, we are in for a farce of the highest order.
Trump’s made-for-TV-lawyers will cook up a big batch of nonsense for his defense. How else to defend a man whose conduct is indefensible, against whom the evidence is clear and overwhelming? A man who operates the White House as a criminal organization? Starr and Dershowitz and other members of Trump’s Dream Team will likely attempt to turn the entire proceeding on its head. They want spectacle, a cross between The Apprentice and a WWE main event. They’ll paint the Democrats as Trump’s malign persecutors, a bunch of Javerts intent on hounding Trump out of office. They’ll portray Trump as the victim of a gross injustice. They’ll say it’s all Hunter Biden’s fault, and repeat the bogus claim that Trump did nothing wrong in trying to extort Ukraine for his own political gain.
Keeping tabs on Trump’s transgressions is dizzying. It started on Day 1, the minute Trump placed his small white hand on the Bible and swore to protect, preserve and defend the Constitution. That was the foundational lie. Ever since, Trump has made a mockery of the presidency, doing everything he can to debase, weaken, and eviscerate the Constitution. He’s had plenty of assistance from Mitch McConnell and the Republicans, a rabid pack of see no evil, hear no evil, speak gobs of gibberish Kool Aid guzzlers. Day after day they rush to Trump’s defense and try with all their might to justify King Donald’s idiocy and cruelty. They steadfastly ignore all the investigations and lawsuits the Trump regime has spawned, content to wallow in the sewage flowing beneath Trump’s throne.
While McConnell holds down the fort in the Senate, Trump continues his War on Reality, braying about his “perfect” phone call with the Ukranian president, Hillary Clinton’s emails, how much money he’s helped America’s banks accumulate; railing against low-flow showerheads and toilets and energy efficient household appliances. Trump claims to have no idea who Lev Parnas is, even though numerous photographs of Trump and Parnas have surfaced. His supporters lap the make-believe up like a kitten with a bowl of thick cream. Trump speaks their language, reinforces their biases and prejudices and complete lack of understanding of how a democratic republic works. He feeds and justifies their sense of grievance and alienation at the hand of the Libs.
The Circus is here. The cast is ready. The Kool Aid is chilling and the popcorn is popping. Sit back, relax, enjoy the All-American show.
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