April 5, 2023

Stage Four Legal Cancer: Trump admitted he committed a much bigger crime than stealing the documents

 By Hal Brown

These are the words he used:

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“God bless you all. I never thought anything like this could happen in America,” he said, adding that the only crime he’s committed is trying “to defend our nation from those who seek to destroy it.”

Jack Smith might ask the jury that if Trump literally stood on a gallows, put a noose around Mike Pence's neck, and opened the trapdoor under his feet, and then said he didn't commit a crime because he was defending the nation, did this justify what he did.

Trump, it has been pointed out by some in the media, already admitted he took the documents (saying that he could do so because he could declassify them just by thinking the thought) even though taking any documents, top secret or not, is against the law. (See "Trump appears to concede he illegally retained official documents'")

This will make things easy for Jack Smith to indict on the Mar-a-Lago documents case. It shows that Trump knew all about taking the documents, supposedly thinking he had a right to do so, and once he was disabused of this false belief or claim, still refused to return them. This is obstruction, a serious felony. Add all this together we have Michael Jordan levels of several game winning slam dunks for Jack Smith.

This is one of the two cases Smith is working on. From what we know it is seems to be easy to win. 

The other federal case is Trump's involvement and legal culpability in the January 6th insurrection. This may include things he did on the days prior to January 6th, but centers around how he incited the audience at his rally earlier in the day to march to the Capitol and engage in a violent attempt to stop Mike Pence from certifying the election of President Biden.

His statement is an admission of culpability in committing a crime, really crimes, far more significant than the admission in the documents case. It is an admission that he is aware he has committed crimes related to everything he did in an attempt to remain in power despite losing the election. This goes far beyond just trying to find the extra votes in Georgia through fraud. It involves inciting, aiding, and abetting the Jan. 6th insurrection, and an attempt to undermine the Constitution and the peaceful transfer of powers.

These are the only "crimes" that could be what he said would involve his "fearlessly" defending the nation from those seeking to destroy it.

A jury hearing and reading the many hyperbolic claims that Trump made without him as president the country would be destroyed ought to be persuaded to take him at his words. 

In the "only crime I committed" statement he is admitting that he knew what he did to remain in power was a crime.

Jack Smith isn't the only prosecutor for whom Trump has offered up a prosecutorial ammunition on a silver platter. Not only does Fani Willis have a tape of Trump asking Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to recalculate the state's vote in his favorbut Trump said it was an "absolutely PERFECT (sic) call."

Aside from the fact that Trump has to contend with high profile four cases against him he also has two civil suits, ones from Eric Swallwell and from Rep. Bennie Thompson about the insurrection. 

Trump has two years where he'll be slogging though one legal tarpit after another. Through this period he will be trying to put on his warrior face as a fearless presidential candidate.

He's set up this Superman image of himself in his iconography (see the illustration of some of his digital trading cards) and his self-aggrandizing rally speeches and rhetorical like  "I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed: I am your retribution” from his CPAC speech.

Trump will have to strike a pose of being the aggrieved victim without looking like he is experiencing the least bit of fear. Lindsay Graham can get tearful on his behalf, but don't expect Trump's eyes to moisten let alone shed a tear. I have my doubts if his tear ducts are even functional.

No matter how stressed out or anxious he may be feeling - or not be feeling (see below for two previous blogs about what Trump may or may not feel) it is important to note that denial is a primitive defense mechanism. It is brittle and the one most easily to shatter when hit by the ball-peen hammer of reality.

As his legal woes metastasize like various types of cancer from the equivalent of a squamish cell lesion which is uncomfortably treated but easily cured to the aggressive and deadly brain cancer known as glioblastoma which took John McCain's life. 

We may not know for some time what Jack Smith will charge Trump with, if anything. However, if it is something akin to inciting a resurrection in an attempt to overturn an election sticking with the cancer metaphor, for Trump this will be the near equivalent of having to try to survive a stage four malignancy.

Related blogs:

Nobody knows for certain how Trump feels except Trump

and

Michael Cohen and others claim to know what's in Trump's headspace. They don't.


Addendum: It isn't just American tabloids which have fun with their covers about Trump. Below is the UK Daily Mirror.
They also have an article about Melania and Ivanka not being seen at his post-arraignment Mar-a-Lago speech which they call a rant.

Excerpt:

Donald Trump's wife Melania and daughter Ivanka were nowhere to be seen as the former President lashed out at prosecutors and the judge after his historic arrest.

After his appearance at court on Tuesday, April 4, loudmouth Trump returned to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida where he addressed friends, family and supporters and lavished praise on members of his family.



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2 comments:

Hal Brown said...

Please comment.

Ben Kalom said...

All good points.
However...
As long as he can get volunteers, donors, money, willing acolytes, chumps and suckers, he'll not be subtended so easily.
Warfare teaches us that unless you cut the supply lines of an enemy, you will keep fighting forever.
It matters not if those supply lines are cut fairly or with justice.
War is what this is. This is no less a war than fighting bootleggers and organized crime was in the first part of the 20th century.
This assclown has reimagined himself into a Geez-US. That is a transmogrification of a monstrous version of a brown-skinned Jewish fellow from Nazareth, who got framed, imprisoned and literally hung out to dry (cruxifiction is very much, that, and worse as a form of torture and death).

Yehoshua ben Yoseph was capable as a religious speaker, as a carpenter and as a humanist. The Don can't do any of the above. He can operate confidence schemes and follow through on his golf swing. He can borrow any old product, slap his name on it, add superlatives, and bilk people out of bucks.

The assclown has a private jet. His one and only remnant of a failed airline. Failed football team. Failed casinos - who fails at casinos???. He couldn't create a dovetail joint if a gun was held to his head. He can't even mix concrete well enough to pour his own pair of permanent shoes. He's gotten people to send him money to go fly his jet to new york, put on a show, and STILL!!!!!!!!!!!!

That gosh darned camera insists on presenting us with this guy, untransformed, untransforamble, unremorseful, unrequited, immutable, adopting the "pose" of mussolini as some sort of demi-god.

I guess, in this season of the winter backing off a bit in the northern hemisphere, in this time of easing, in this moment when so many faith around the world remind themselves of their various dogmas, we all need to take stock, and understand,

There was only one Jesus. Only one buddha. Only one mohammed. Only one host of patriarchs from the old testament.

The only way they come back to life is through our remembering them.

You don't get them back by putting a humbug in a suit, giving him a microphone, letting him blab about, giving him your money, watching him make fools of you and make folly of everything you hold dear.

When Bragg, Willis and Smith are done with their jobs, they'll retreat back into the general background and tentative obscurity. Don will not do that. Don the Con will continue to push that he's our "savior."

Delusional assclown is more like it.

How about we stop trying to recreate the stations of the Cross with this idiot? How about we stop expecting a magical moment and Resurrection to appear and be real?

How about, everyone,

We all grow the F@#k up, and stop waiting for the miracle?

That miracle already happened, today, this morning, when you woke up, and met this day.

You don't need Don the Con. Let the legal system, posterity, and history of really bad actors contain him in the prison of his own making.

Please - - -for your mental health, begin forgetting him. He's not a Messiah.

He's just another humbug, flim-flam, con man in a suit, come to take as long as you keep on giving.

He's no warrior. He's just a dude in a suit, and a noise on the telly.

Push the button. Turn it off, already.

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