Trump dragged through the mud at Mt. Rushmore

 

I read this article in Raw Story:

First Georgia trial will cripple Trump's odds of escaping unscathed: legal expert

This is the portion I wanted to comment on:

My bold:

With Powell and Chesebro's trail expected to be televised, the former president and the public will watch his reputation, such as it is, dragged through the mud and there will be little he can do about it.

I wrote the following:

There are two elements to this.

One, the former president may or may not watch any of these trials so he may literally not be watching his reputation dragged through the mud. What we can assume knowing his personality is that he won't percieve this as a negative. As far as he believes he is the greatest president and the greatest human being to drive a golf cart on the Earth ever.

The second regards the phrase "such as it is" because those members of the public who have had an open mind (not in his cult) already consider him to have committed crimes and to be an inveterate liar. How many times can his reputation be dragged through the mud?

I think what the salient point here is that there's a small but electorally important group of people who may not follow politics closely but for will respond to a drip-drip-drip of accumulating negative information about Trump's lawlessness and his unsavory character coming from this and subsequent trials.

In the GOP primaries they may vote for another candidate. They may decide he isn't the best candidate to beat Biden. If Trump runs against Biden, I can more see them just not voting rather than breaking the habit of a lifetime by voting for a Democrat. That's not a direct vote for Biden, but also not a vote against him, so it obviously is an important factor in who wins.

Trump thinks he belongs on Mt. Rushmore. In truth, if there was mud in front of the monument, that's where he should be.

Then I decided th make the illustration on the top of this page. I figured why let it go to waste lost the comments section where at least two people saw and replied to it (below) of a RawStory article, hence this blog. If you want to have a comment seen by readers of Raw Story mine is near the top of the page when you click Best.

Addendum:

File this under the pinacles of narcissism for a Republican: 

 “ 'We liked Ronald Reagan, right?' Trump said to chants of 'We love you' at a rally in Michigan in the final days of his 2020 campaign. But nobody ever said, ‘We love you. We love you.’” from Politco