Fair warning, this post is going to be about former president, Donald J. Trump and that will be followed by a post on FL governor and 2024 presidential candidate, Ron DeSantis, who I think is the only other GOP candidate, who might defeat Trump in the GOP primary. Trump remains the likely 2024 nominee, although the primary process often produces some surprises. Trump’s 2016 primary win was one such surprise.
I do not like Trump’s brand of politics and believe he lacks character, so I admittedly have a hard time being objective about him. I wrote loads of blog post from 2015/2016 about my NeverTrump/NeverHillary takes on events going on. I didn’t vote for anyone for President in 2016. I left the top of my ballot empty. In 2020, well, I was so alarmed at the bizarre Biden in the basement campaign, the Biden COVID Preacher fearmongering and his trying to sell more COVID restrictions that I did what I said I would never do – I held my nose and voted for Trump.
It took a long time for me to try to make sense out of what so many people see in Trump and his rally sideshow way of politics. I think a lot of the appeal was he was willing to thumb his nose at the political establishment and defy all the rules. Even with the petty name-calling, for many people he was attacking liberals and Republicans they didn’t like and giving voice to how they felt. He didn’t use pretentious language and he can be very funny and entertaining sometimes. He also particularly excelled at totally demolishing the orchestrated liberal media spin echo-chamber, often with one tweet. Most of all he drove the smug liberal media journalists so berserk that they devoted almost all their coverage to trying to destroy him for his entire presidency and even up to today.
The liberal news media has lost a great deal of credibility and I credit Trump’s “owning the libs” spin war for exposing them as little more than Democrat operatives, not the objective journalists they profess to be.
Trump had some big policy wins as president, but unfortunately most of those were of the kind that were completely overturned on Day 1 by Biden. However, along with those wins came constant battling, not only the liberal media, but Trump’s endless attacks against other Republicans and a constant churn of staff in his White House, that often drowned out the good things he was doing. And in 2020, he put Dr. Fauci in charge of the pandemic and went along with all the draconian social mitigation policies Fauci recommended – that’s the truth. He never fired Fauci and he did attack Governor DeSantis and Governor Kemp for defying Fauci and ending the lockdowns in their states. I live in GA and I was very grateful that my governor defied the political and media pressure, and even President Trump, and opened up GA. Ron DeSantis opened up Florida early too and defied the Fauci rules, which were all carried out with President Trump’s full support.
Despite Trump’s claim that he hires only the best people, I’d like to see anyone defend some of his hires like hiring Omarosa, a reality star or Anthony Scaramucci, plus he hired family members, which Americans traditionally frowned upon and Congress passed a law in 1967 to prohibit presidents from appointing family members to cabinet positions and some other positions. In the 1990s Republicans were up in arms about President Clinton appointing Hillary to chair a national health care reform task force.
Trump’s biggest staffing issue was that while many of his supporters eat up Trump the reality star, saying, “You’re Fired!” in his White House that created a revolving door of staff and chaos. There was constant turbulence and in-fighting, as staffers tried to score brownie points, backstab and never coalesced as a strong team. The number of former Trump staff, who are sitting on liberal cable news constantly and trashing him is astonishing. His long-time personal lawyer and friend, Michael Cohen, now is a frequent liberal media fixture attacking Trump. Cohen pleaded guilty to several 2016 election-related criminal charges. Why does Trump choose so many people who lack character and turn on him? Is he a victim or does he not choose the best people? Despite all the hype about Trump being a great builder and deal-maker, he has demonstrated no ability to build a strong team or to keep quality staff.
This staff issue relates to where Trump is presently, despite his campaign and media blaring every day that he is winning in all the polls. He is also being hit by a tsunami of indictments, by probably the most corrupt Dem lawfare attack ever. Sleazy Dem lawyers engage in weaponizing the law to win political battles. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, faced a Dem lawfare attack too, with one of the most vicious Dem smear campaigns I’d ever seen. However, without a doubt Trump has faced the most relentless Dem smear campaign ever – from 2016 to the present. I’m not following all the indictment details, because I’m not a lawyer and at the rate Dems are throwing charges at Trump, I can’t even keep up with it – it’s insane and so corrupt that it’s breathtaking. I expect more indictments, if these sleazy Dem lawyers can pull it off. That said, Trump continually hands ammo to his enemies, which they turn around and use against him. He never shuts up and he’s still fighting like it’s 2016 – rage posting messages on Truth Social in angry caps… but it’s 2023.
He won the media spin war, but it’s now time to fight the Dem lawfare war and to fight to really eviscerate the progressive administrative state, where Dems have rammed through their green transformation legislation and ensconced literal armies of bureaucratic foot soldiers to advance their policy agenda. Republicans have assuredly added plenty of wasteful spending and bodies to that bureaucratic bloat too.
Trump is not prepared to fight Dem lawyers in multiple courts and he is surrounding himself with totally incompetent grifters and people who are no match for savvy Dem lawyers and legislative experts, many who helped craft all these laws. Trump also surrounds himself with grifters, most who have no political skills. Trump supporters may love Kari Lake, who brags about being an outsider. She can talk all day long about how her losing is really winning and stir MAGA crowds preaching about the evil Dems, but the truth is she’s a Kerry/Obama supporter, who got on the Trump train in the past few years and has absolutely no government or legislative experience. Even Trump’s loudest supporters in Congress like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz, have scored no legislative wins – nothing. MTG is always introducing bills and rushing in front of cameras or posting on social media to hype them, but she has never done the work of building support from fellow legislators to get a bill passed. These are the type of people Trump loves – the types who fawn all over him and fan his ego.
With the Dem lawfare going on against Trump with all these indictments, they’re not only targeting Trump, they’re trying to destroy as many people around Trump, as possible, especially his lawyers. These other people indicted will face massive legal bills, that could bankrupt them. Here’s a news story about the head of Trump’s post-election legal team, Rudy Giuliani’s money problems: Giuliani struggling under massive legal bills after defending Trump. Giuliani travelled to Mar-a-lago to seek help for legal expenses in April. Here’s an article from May, about Trump’s longtime fixer Michael Cohen’s prediction: Michael Cohen on Giuliani’s legal fees: He won’t get ‘two cents’ from Trump. Jenna Ellis, another member of Trump’s 2020 post-election legal team, has also been indicted in the GA case. She expressed support for DeSantis in 2024 and Trump’s mouthpieces on X (formerly Twitter) have attacked her non-stop and here’s a report: Jenna Ellis Pleads for Donations As Trump Allegedly Won’t Pay Legal Fees
This corrupt Dem lawfare, using the law to take out political enemies and Trump’s refusal to ever listen to his lawyers advice, will make it harder and harder for him to hire top notch lawyers, because they don’t want to jeopardize their livelihoods for Trump or deal with the Dem legal assassins.
Then we come to the most bizarre thing emerging in TrumpWorld. Trump flew in for the Iowa State Fair, a big early presidential election event, last Saturday and stayed around 45 minutes, then departed. On Sunday he was at Bedminster and had some golfing event going on and Laura Loomer showed up. Loomer is a far-right activist/internet journalist (who gets her facts wrong most of the time)/attention-seeker, with things like this in 2018: Far-right activist Laura Loomer handcuffed herself to Twitter’s NYC building; police removed her. Her dream is to be hired to work on Trump’s team and back in April Trump wanted to hire her, but his campaign staff talked him out of that. Loomer posts on social media 24/7 about how much she loves Trump and hurling out the most vicious attacks on Ron DeSantis. She even alleged that Casey DeSantis exaggerated having breast cancer. So, Loomer showed up at Bedminster Sunday and Trump greeted her and invited her in and spent 5 hours with her.
Since Sunday, Loomer is posting on X that she wants to be Trump’s press secretary and in charge of vetting his staff. She’s also flown to a “Stolen Election” event to meet with the Pillow Guy, Mike Lindell, to hobnob with other Stolen Election diehards – people grifting bigtime to make money off of “Stolen Election” conspiracy theories, while producing no real proof of anything. For the record, I do believe that the massive money in the CARES Act, which Trump signed into law, poured millions upon millions into Dem election changes to facilitate the Biden win. Dems sold those changes under the guise of helping voters have easier access to voting due to the pandemic. Trump often went along with policy actions as president that Dems used to try to destroy him. Trump kept Fauci in charge of COVID policy and he signed onto massive COVID spending that not only ended up aiding Democrats in the 2020 election, it helped fuel the inflation impacting all of us. Yet, somehow, many Trump supporters refuse to ever demand any accountability from Trump and talk like Trump is above all the rules they apply to other politicians.
On X this morning news is floating that Trump might not deliver his promised report. Here’s a Aug. 15th X post:
Well, two days later here’s what’s being reported:
What’s going on is Trump’s lawyers fear, that while Trump’s political stunt of staging this press conference with “irrefutable” stolen election evidence might be political theater his MAGA base loves, it also might easily hand evidence to Dem lawyers that results in more indictments. Trump’s rate of lawyer attrition will likely increase if Trump keeps throwing out wild allegations and listening to advice from people like Steve Bannon and the Pillow Guy, while Dems still haven’t lost a single sleazy Dem lawyer, despite all of Trump’s ranting about stolen elections and all his promises to overturn the election. Biden is still the President… I almost said “in the WH,” but he’s usually in Delaware or on vacation, but never fear the Obama team running this administration are still hard at work “fundamentally transforming” America into a collectivist promised land… where anti-Americanism is the national religion.
Trump might very well win the GOP primary, but his chances to win the general election are very remote, I think. Even if Trump defied the odds and did win, I wonder how a Trump, totally unleashed presidency, where he picks people like Laura Loomer, Roger Stone, Steve Bannon, and a host of other dirty trick sewer operatives and kooks to top positions and where they go about “breaking all the rules” to “restore the rule of law” would work out. Jenna Ellis who was part of Trump’s post-election legal team is finding out – Trump won’t give her a cent for her legal defense in this GA indictment, Trump’s sewer operatives are not only trashing her, they’re urging Republicans not to contribute any money to the online fundraising effort her lawyer set up. Then Mark Levin, FOX News personality, conservative lawyer and fire-breathing Trump supporter supported Jenna Ellis and urged viewers to support her:
So much winning for America with Trump or Biden, for sure…
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