The almost unanimous mainstream media mockery of former President Trump briefly snoozing during the kangaroo court “hush money” trial isn’t the most noxious example of biased, hostile news media coverage as the Axis attempts to, again, clothesline the American leader so many of them have pledged to destroy (Hi there, NPR!) , but it’s particularly contrived and ignorant. Attention should be paid: these are the people crippling democracy while claiming that they want to save it.
The idea, of course, is tit-for-tat: Republicans and conservatives (along with anyone with eyes and ears who isn’t so biased they can’t think) have been pointing out the obvious crisis that the man supposedly overseeing our government is failing mentally and physically, unable to keep a full schedule or speak coherently, almost certainly operating with a metaphorical hand shoved up into his suit and head to give the (barely credible illusion) that he is really calling the shots, in thrall to a dangerous far left cabal, and too old to be safely entrusted with the Presidency even if all of the forgoing weren’t true. Therefore the counter argument, juvenile as it is (“So’s your old man!”) is to default to “wahataboutism” (as well as the usual anti-Trump Big Lies). Trump’s too old! Trump’s no more able than Biden!
Suuuure. If they keep saying it enough, they hope people will believe it. (Yesterday Michael Douglas said on CNN that Biden was “sharp as a tack.” And your father was able to sing “I Am the Very Model of a Model Major General” in Yiddish and backwards after his stroke, right? ) Trump is indeed too old, but falling asleep in courtrooms is not evidence of that whatsoever. It is famously difficult to stay awake during any trial unless you are actively involved in it as a judge, lawyer, court staff or witness, and even they fall asleep sometimes. Either the hacks criticizing Trump have never had to sit as passive observers in one, or they are intentionally misleading the public, or both. I fell asleep during a trial when I was a 20-year old law student. When I asked some trial lawyer colleagues about the Trump incident, they all said that trying to stay awake in trials has always been a challenge. (Judges often turn the air conditioning way up to uncomfortable levels as a preventive measure.)
My father was known for falling asleep in his night school law lectures, getting called on by annoyed professors, snapping awake, correctly answering the question, and falling asleep again. He would have been falling asleep in Trump’s position from age 25-to the day he died (my birthday), and Dad, on the weariest, dumbest day of his life, would make Joe Biden seem like a special needs kindergartner.
Trump needs to doze during the trial(s): he’s on a murderous schedule. In fact, I’m sure that among the objectives of the coordinated lawfare against him is to wear him down and out, and if he keels over from a stroke or heart attack, all the better. I’m very aware of his myriad flaws, but I still find the man’s energy and determination astounding, and so should anyone else who thinks about what he’s going through. You don’t have to like the guy to concede his impressive qualities, and those qualities will serve him well in the White House, which hasn’t seen them in a POTUS the past three years.
Yes, Donald Trump is, has been and forever will be an asshole. That does not excuse journalists and pundits for being assholes in the way they cover him.
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The whole thing is making me furious. Just about every headline I see is raising my blood pressure higher than the boiling point of water (F). Especially headlines like this:
“Trump conspired to ‘corrupt the 2016 election,’ prosecutor says in opening statement”
The whole trial is a farce. It should have been thrown out before it ever got started.
I also heard that Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) on Friday introduced a bill to “terminate United States Secret Service protection for felons.” The shit just gets deeper and deeper.
The Clintons cannot pull a Foster/Epstein suicide on Trump if jailed with secret service personnel nearby. HRC burnt that bridge as first gender?
“So’s your old man!”
Oh yeah? Oh YEAH? Well your mother sucks a moose cock! 😀
“I know you are, but what am I?”
With a tip of the Hatlo hat to Pee Wee Herman: “Infinity!”
Wait. Trump is evil, so everything he does is evil. I suspect he dreams evil dreams. In fact, he did not doze off, as reports suggest. He was plotting his evil take over of the government to impose his dictatorial, maniacal, megalomaniacal, will on a poor, confused and brainwashed mass of humanity.
Joe Biden, though, is not evil. He is a font of steadfastness and stick-to-it-edness (sp?). What conservatives and evil Racist Republicans are Biden’s weaknesses (you know, addled, senile, incoherent ravings) are simply Joe bringing back a sense of patience, confidence, and serioucity* to the Oval Office in hopes of cleansing it from Trump’s evil presence. Either way, we are doomed.
jvb
*Ed. Note: I made up that word.
Erm . . . that should read “What conservatives and evil Racist Republicans perceive are . . .”
I should not be allowed anywhere near a computer.
jvb
Okay, it’s time to play, “Ask the Presidential Historian in Residence:” How many U.S. Presidents WEREN’T assholes?” Alternatively, “Please provide your list of U.S. Presidents who were/are assholes.” I’ll start the second list with Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. Over to you…
But what if Trump did it on purpose? If he did have a ‘My Pillow’ with a ’45’ embroidered on the pillowcase just snoozing along during the trial, that would be a power move, wouldn’t it? What if he wheeled in a recliner?
The man has been going nonstop and giving 100% since at least since 2014. He could have rested after the 2020 election, but he didn’t. I’ve never seen in my lifetime a candidate who lost an election continue to campaign for the same office. Trump literally has never quit the race for president since 2020. It is as if no one ever told him the election was over and he lost. Trump is a machine. It is not surprising to me that he might fall asleep the first time he sits down in nine years. Heck, it should have been a given.
For a criminal defendant who truly believes his trial is a sham and a slam-dunk for appeal if found guilty, isn’t voir dire the most boring part of the trial?
Trump has complained about the “meat locker” setting for the courtroom air conditioning. Should he bring an embroidered MyPillow, it should match an accompanying Snuggie. Maybe a space heater, too.
I’m reminded of Larry Flynt’s donning a t-shirt emblazoned with “FUCK THIS COURT”.
Eight assholes and a token cunt? Gads, the world lost nothing at all when that jerk bit the dust.