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by the way, I was just alerted to the fact that the link in the second item — the one about Trump pretending to be his own press agent — was incorrect. I've fixed it.

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And to think, 80% of Republican voters say they would vote for him again. How stupid can stupid get?

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Right. His "career" was essentially to serve as money launderer for various mobs, eventually those of the Russians connected to Putin. They didn't trust him to manage anything else because they, like everyone else, knows just what a nincompoop he is. He's pathological and pathologically stupid. The rakes are all facing upward all the time.

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Love this and I second your Thank You message. Fani Willis says “We’re ready to go” and I’m especially waiting for that one because I want to see if she indicts scumbags like Lindsey Graham.

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For all of these” he got caughts” there is zero accountability so far.I go back and forth between wanting his ass to be thrown in prison with the key thrown into the Atlantic Ocean or just him being financially and politically and totally ruined with no recourse.We all know he certainly belongs in and has belonged in prison for many years.He is an oozing sore on America’s soul, that much I know.

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Caught but never punished. He’s an old man. If he’s ever sentenced, he will never live long enough to serve.

If I may quote the late Sir Terry Pratchett -

"There’s no triumph over a corpse, but a beaten opponent, who will remain beaten every day of the remainder of their sad and wretched life, is something to treasure."

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That column was so good I'm keeping it in my little archives just so I can pull it out every so often and chuckle.

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It looks like in the game of Monopoly, Trump may have used up his "Get out of Jail Free" cards. Let us hope so. I too am exhausted by Donald Trump. I was already exhausted with Donald Trump back when he had a disgusting reality television show which I watched for all of 10 (at the most) minutes while channel surfing. It told me all I ever wanted to know about Donald Trump, in fact more than I wanted to know. Of course I learned more about him, like that he did not pay his debts, and weaseled out of them, and basically expects everyone else to foot his bills. I also know that he used to be a democrat, and that switch to Republican because they would be easier to dupe, something he must have figured out early on, but still, Donald Trump belongs to the world of people I would rather not know or know about. I know about him because he became president and pretty much drove me to buying a home in another country, and retiring early from my job, so that I could be better prepared to make a move if he ever becomes president again. I cannot take that much tiredness as I feel about this ill man and his antics, which are basically aimed to destroy the planet to feed his insatiable ego. Led by ego and certain body parts, the man is never going to make a good decision. However, I guess he thought his mob connections and RICO violating behavior would be protected forever. Now he knows that the Tortoise beats the hare. Didn't he call Biden "Sleepy Joe?" Well, Trump may be hyper but the only thing he accomplishes is chaos, while Biden is rebuilding the entire country from the ground up after over 40 years of extreme mismanagement. That includes putting competent people in jobs, like in the justice department. That is a branch of government that will eternally be kept busy as long as the Republican party exists. As I have said before, I consider a better name for Trump's newly chosen party to be, "The New American Nazi Party" just as in Germany, the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) should be called ,"The New German Nazi Party" (die Neue deutsche Nazi Partei).

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Frankly, Jeff, I’m thanking you for you Public Service Announcement.

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Like others have said so many times...it’s downright scary that more he gets in trouble, the more people support him. We live in the “Bizarro world” that makes no sense. The elation I enjoyed during Obama’s inauguration and the pride I felt seeing him in office for eight-years, was the pinnacle for me. When the pendulum swung so far to the right (and it’s still swinging i.e our Supreme Court), - it’s just sad. Trump had BETTER be more than just “caught” this time. His ass better be convicted and punished, like any other John Q. Citizen.

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Just galling that there’s been no accountability all that time. I have so little faith in the system anymore that I find it hard to believe he’ll really pay for his latest criminal activity. Why in hell is everyone so afraid of this repugnant imbecile?!?!

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Honestly Jeff I love your commentaries but this one is a perfect summary. TFGhS been a crook from the get go…what I don’t get is why he is not in jail already. My fear is that he will run again and notoriously apathetic Democrats will not show up to vote. Problem is that fanatics and cultists always do show up. As a Canadian, I watch in fear as this destruction of democracy edges north. Can’t remember at this moment who said this, but it is true ‘Democracy isn’t perfect but it beats the alternatives’. Jeff please keep these commentaries going on. You are a voice of reason .

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I am torn between wanting him in jail now and dragging it out until he's the 2024 GOP presidential nominee and then goes to jail, dragging all gop candidates through his miserableness

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For all those lawyers he DID pay to keep him accountable-less, someone should do a Cribs-style tour of their blue blood-money estates. Won't THAT be entertaining.

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He is such a putz. Can someone please explain why he is so popular with admittedly a minority - but a sizable minority - of Americans? Sadly I think this says much more about the country than DT. I hear pundits identifying it, but who is digging into it? This is a huge problem. How do we tackle/address it? If he looses again, I don’t think it’s going away.

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As great as him getting caught is, it is bankrolling him into the Presidential Primary with zero blow back. The cult and cronies love him. If he gets in, per his fine former council Ty Cobb, he will either pardon himself or appoint a temporary AG who will erase all the charges. If we don't have a BIG BLUE WAVE to flush this turd out of the system, we are going to have a dicktator-predator-coup-maker in chief who will order his cult to kill all the "others" on sight.

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