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Not only is this legal setback described as a blockbuster but it is referred to not merely as a big blow to his 2024 run, but a big, big blow.
A brief from the Department of Justice firmly stating that Donald Trump does not have "absolute immunity" is nothing less than a "blockbuster" and will open the door to a flood of lawsuits to be filed against the former president as he makes his third run for the Oval Office.
That is the opinion of former prosecutor Charles Colemen Jr. during an appearance on MSNBC's "The Katie Phang Show" early Saturday morning.
Coleman goes on (my emphasis added):
"A blockbuster," Coleman immediately shot back. "The decision cannot be more important or come at a worse time for Donald Trump. You are talking about someone who is looking forward to 2024 and trying to, as we were just talking about in your last segment, now, another challenge to Joe Biden to be president again, and he has to potentially deal with lawsuits from Capitol police officers as well as Congresspeople who feel like they've put them in danger with his rhetoric around January Six and what happened." "
This is a big, big blow to Donald Trump and significant news," he added. "Because it opens the proverbial floodgates for lawsuits
Raw Story is my go-to website for breaking news and along with Salon and the OpEd sections of The Washington Post and New York Times, for original opinion. The title of the "blockbuster" article used the words of a legal expert so it was accurate, but reading their story was still a disappointment.
Charles Coleman is a legal analyst on MSNBC. He is a former federal prosecutor and civil rights attorney. He spent 3 1/2 years as a senior assistant district attorney in the Kings County DA office. He has also served as a senior trial lawyer and civil litigation attorney for the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. (Reference)
What would I describe as a blockbuster and a big, big legal blow to Trump?
The first thing that comes to mind is something along the lines of the Nixon White House tapes. But that was then and this is now. Those were audio tapes. Today, considering the nothing burger the Access Hollywood recording was, I wonder if a series of more compelling videos of Trump exposing all of his lies and felonies would be his undoing.
Certainly this could be described as blockbuster news, and I'll accept that this would represent a legal setback. Unfortunately, I'd have to equivocate on making a judgment as to whether this would inevitably lead to Trump deciding to abandon his attempt to be reelected. I'd give it a 50/50 chance.
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If you have been involved in depositions for or against a client, you will recall the best statement any therapist, counselor or psychologist can offer regarding motivation, intent, state of mind or volitional capacity:
Look at past performance.
Not as a prognostic, but as a pattern of behaviors, feelings, thoughts, actions that have led up to this present moment.
Past performance is your most reliable yardstick for future behaviors.
We are who we are, even if sometimes we forget...
That line is from Men in Black II, shortly after the princess is returned to her home planet, spoken by Tommy Lee Jones to Will Smith
Donald is who he is. He was forged in hardship, with a mother who was largely absent and a father who could have cared less (this was the fourth child!!)
He was not a tough kid from hardscrabble, but a child who was raised by strangers, siblings, mostly nobody, and essentially wanted for nothing. He likes to play at being a tough guy. He likes to be in front of a camera and a microphone, he likes attention, fawning, being spoiled, being pampered, being held as a caesar, being elevated with falsehoods, bullshit and having it all flow one way.
Except his urine, his stool, and his semen. That he'll give away freely. But I digress.
He is Henry Hill, the real life character from Goodfellas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Hill)
He is a wannabee un-tough, un-made mob person, someone who wanted to get his hands dirty (who does that??!!) and prove that he was "made", meaning, he had actually killed someone, pointed a gun, executed another human being, terminated a life not by accident, but by intention.
Life kept diverting him into other pathways. He doesn't belong where he is. He's trying to get "home."
Where's home?
In Donald's mind, it exists in a fantasy realm like the Puzo stories of a mobster. In Donald's mind, he is this beneficent and avenging man, who balances out for all the "bad bosses" and caporegimes.
Is Donald suffering from the Chinese malady Won Sik Fak?
Yup.
Past performance.
He's a pathological troublemaker, liar, floundering nincompoop, mental-masturbating lump of adipocytes and flaccid flesh.
He's into himself, into disrupting, into systematically making everyone else's life as effed up as possible.
Nothing and I mean NOTHING will stop him from running another game on the American electoral system. He just wants to do anything to muck it all up, keep causing problems, keep manifesting his fantasy reality, keep just being a real problem to us all.
Will he persist in his run? You betcha he will. Not a doubt in my mind. Just to cause trouble.
He's got nothing better to do.
Perhaps, he needs a job making license plates or doing laundry...
He needs to attend the college of correctional knowledge.
Better late than never.
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