Trump 2.0: Trump’s Justice end game

If nothing else, Donald Trump has proven himself resilient. There are enough clouds over his head to enshroud any mortal, yet he keeps coming back like a whack-a-mole.

He lost the 2020 election, and he is too delusional to admit it. He has been indicted on 91 felony counts, 44 federal and 47 state. He is a proven sex offender. He mocks dead soldiers as losers and blabs nuclear secrets. He has been found liable for charity fraud, bank fraud and tax fraud.

He is the subject of two gag orders, one in New York, which he has flagrantly violated, and one in Washington, which he is appealing, and has the temerity to argue that “No Court in American history has imposed a gag order on a criminal defendant who is campaigning for public office—least of all, on the leading candidate for President of the United States,” forgetting that he is the only “leading candidate” for president in history to have made statements threatening judges, prosecutors and witnesses while he was a defendant in a criminal case.

As the federal trial judge in Washington put it, “Mr. Trump can certainly claim he’s being unfairly prosecuted, but I cannot imagine any other case where a defendant is allowed to call the prosecutor ‘deranged,’ or a ‘thug,’ and I will not permit it here simply because the defendant is running a political campaign.”