When it comes to seeing Trump get his long overdue comeuppance, I often speak of being Lucy Footballed by both mainstream and independent media. Far too frequently, we hear pundits breathlessly telling us the long arm of Johnny Law is about to nab Trump by the collar a second now—only to see the con man wiggle out of his incoming restraints again.
It almost always happens with on-the-nose last-minute frequency, too—coincidental?
You tell me—and no, Trump having a financial monitor is something of a consolation prize, an appetizer and not the meal. Barbra Jones playing babysitter to a megalomaniac is not a satisfying enough punishment for what the man has done. A slap on the wrist at best.
It’s enough to make me think Fae Bonnie Donnie is playing at the dementia thing. Seriously, how can someone who can barely string two sentences together keep outsmarting the system this way?
Says a lot about the system, doesn’t it?
IMHO, there are far more intelligent and likely dangerous people behind the Mango Manchurian Candidate's strategy planning.
One need only look at how Judge Cannon seems to be able to keep pulling rabbits out of the hat to keep herself from being moved from Trump-related court cases in Florida. A judge as green as Miss Aileen would not be this strategically savvy—someone’s advising her, I would guarantee it.
Appears her luck may have finally run out, though—
Jack Smith sets the foundation to remove Loose Cannon
Glenn Kirshner lays out the emerging gameplan Jack Smith might be contemplating for kicking Judge Cannon off the Maralago documents case in the video below. It largely entails heading to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals after her latest misstep.
Smith’s move comes after Judge Cannon made the perplexing decision to ask Jack Smith and Trump’s legal team to file competing jury instructions to the court before setting a firm date for the hearing.
Why is this an issue?
Cannon asked the parties to file proposed jury instructions, regarding the federal charges alleging that Trump illegally retained national defense information. In doing so, she told them to consider two “scenarios,” both of which lend credence to the notion that the Presidential Records Act applies in this case. The problem is that the PRA is irrelevant to these criminal charges. So injecting the issue into the trial could lead the jury to think that Trump could do whatever he wanted with classified documents, which would obviously go against the criminal law that says otherwise. —MSNBC News
In other words, homegirl still playing games.
The request was Cannon’s most significant and actionable WTF moment, as her argument seemed to pit the Espionage Act and the Presidential Records Act against one another. The dueling jury instructions would rely heavily on the ridiculous premise that Trump was able to “declassify documents with his mind” and make them his, something the jury would seriously have to consider.
WTAF part two.
That was enough for Jack Smith, who slammed Cannon in his response via a spirited court motion. He basically told her, “Hell no, yah cray? I ain’t doing that, and oh yeah, I am about to get medieval on your ass!”
From the looks of things, Jack has a strong enough case to have her removed for gross judicial malfeasance. With this being her third strike, a solid argument could also be made for her permanent removal from the bench.
NYC court rejects Trump’s bail payment
Sure, it is a mere technicality, but the misstep is still delicious.
The Skinny: Trump has to go to the Subprime King, Don Hankey, to obtain the money he needs to pay his bail. Hankey an asshat who preys on the desperate and poor to make the bulk of his billionaire fortune with predator lending practices.
Don Hankey, the executive whose company provided the bond, is a little-known mogul who built his $7.4 billion fortune through car dealerships and providing subprime auto loans, according to Forbes magazine. That makes him richer than Trump, whom Forbes estimates is worth $6.4 billion, including his multibillion stake in the newly public Trump Media & Technology Group.
Hankey, who told The Associated Press he has never met nor spoken with Trump, said his Knight Speciality Insurance company provided both cash and bonds as collateral for Trump's appellate bond. That bond is now essentially a placeholder that will guarantee payment if the judgment against Trump is upheld on appeal.
"This is what we do at Knight Insurance, and we're happy to do this for anyone who needs a bond," Hankey told the wire service. —CBS NEWS
So yeah, surprise, Don Hankey is something of a sleazeball—birds of a feather, I suppose.
A so-called billionaire had to slum it and go to the worst person in the world for a handout? Yet his followers still think the man is rich. Barnum Bailey was right, a sucker is born every minute, and MAGA shows how dumb they are every second of every day.
Why do we defer to these idiots or take them seriously?
Now, to be clear, this doesn’t mean Letitia James can resume pursuing Trump’s assets. More than likely, Don Hankey’s firm will file the missing paperwork with the court, and things will be on and popping once again.
Still, when you consider the fact that Trump’s Truth Social Meme stock is sinking faster than Laura Trump's doomed singing career (he lost 2 BN in 6 days folks!), Trump appears to be headed for a great fall.
Thing is, are there King’s Horses and King’s Men waiting in the wings to put the Humpty Dumpty back together again?
That, my friends, remains to be seen.