What does the future hold for Donald Trump? - threadbans in OP

Trump got close to the sky pilots business through his personal pastor, Paula White, he saw the possibility of television fund-raising through "The Apprentice" and making appeals was so much easier than kissing Putin's ass to get dodgy Russian monies to buy his condos in Trump Inc., for inflated prices.

Would think Trump is genuinely afraid of Putin and his proven ability to strike/execute overseas, probably has a ground floor bedroom/office at MAL and plenty of food tasters.

Mr. "I've been cancelled" trying to cancel others. The hypocrisy.

Has there ever been such an absolute baby of a president?

No wonder all knew in advance how easily he would be manipulated by foreign governments.

The US government cant even agree among themselves how it started. If the FBI have proof they aren't sharing it.

All of which, to distract and deflect from his lacklustre response at the start of the pandemic. I mean, if we want to go back to all of Trump's comments about the pandemic from say the start of February 2020, then sure, Trump's comments about how the virus may have come from a lab in China may turn out to be true.

Wonder how many of his earlier comments might end up being proven true...

Feb. 10 at the White House: “Now, the virus that we’re talking about having to do — you know, a lot of people think that goes away in April with the heat — as the heat comes in. Typically, that will go away in April. We’re in great shape, though. We have 12 cases, 11 cases, and many of them are in good shape now.”

Feb. 23 to reporters: “We have it very much under control in this country.”

Feb. 24 on Twitter: “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA. We are in contact with everyone and all relevant countries. CDC & World Health have been working hard and very smart. Stock Market starting to look very good to me!”

Feb. 26 at the White House: “So, we’re at the low level. As they get better, we take them off the list, so that we’re going to be pretty soon at only five people. And we could be at just one or two people over the next short period of time. So, we’ve had very good luck.”

Feb. 26 at a news conference: “And again, when you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that’s a pretty good job we’ve done.”

Feb. 27 at a White House meeting with African American leaders: “It’s going to disappear. One day — it’s like a miracle — it will disappear.”

Feb. 29 in a speech to conservatives: “And I’ve gotten to know these (health care) professionals. They’re incredible. And everything is under control. I mean, they’re very, very cool. They’ve done it, and they’ve done it well. Everything is really under control.”

Or how about this doozy from early March:

March 6, 2020: “I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it… Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.”

Or Trump's damn near bang-on estimate of how many people might die from Covid:

May 3, 2020: “Look, we're going to lose anywhere from 75,000, 80,000 to 100,000 people,”

(Covid deaths hit 400,000 by Trump's last day in office)

So even if it's definitively proven that the virus leaked from a lab in China and Trump hit a home run with that one, remember to turn around and see the mountain of baseballs that just flew straight past him.

And lets remember that Trump recalled the expert that had been based in China, the job of which was to stay ahead of things like this and keep an eye and the Chinese.

Had Trump not done that then the entire world might have been given more advance warning.

But sure, one thing he said might turn out to be right, so that makes everything ok.

And are the FBI now trusted? I thought they were led my Democrats and out to get Trump?

Sure Chris Wray just gave a whole interview to fox about hunters laptop and classified docs cases and the latest rumors about Wuhan. The viewers must be all sorts of confused.

Love to see the captured Justices try and take that one up.

Rupert Murdoch stealing a lot of headlines for his deposition in the Dominion case, where Murdoch essentially agreed with the majority of the cross examiners questions, confirming that fox hosts "endorsed" the claims about Dominion that the already revealed communications confirm they knew to be patently false, thereby eroding Fox's defense that much farther.

Trump meanwhile is disgusted and demands the firing of every Fox News person who knew the election wasn't stolen

Bet they go back to his previous defamation defense: 'no reasonable person can take me seriously'

It's not at all surprising anymore, but it remains astounding to me that the literal exact named professional asshole people who go off about the War on Christmas every **** year are the most shameless and least god-fearing 'christians' on the planet. Shameless sociopaths. Even if you catch them, they'll keep doing it, because 'free speech' and 'win politics by any means.'

Perhaps as a prime example of this, listen to Kellyanne Conway in 2019 [video at WaPo]:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/06/13/blah-blah-blah-this-week-old-kellyanne-conway-clip-looks-exceedingly-painful-today/

Basically saying, '**** off, I'm going to shamelessly violate this law because the law has no tangible statutory criminal punishment attached to it'

And for similar reasons these fucklechucks over at FNC don't give a flying rats ass about a fine from Dominion, that will always be watered down to hell on appeal. They're not going to be personally hurt by it, in fact they've made a political machine out of victimhood from their violation of such laws - "I'm being oppressed" coverage will, in this lost country, lead to killer ratings for them, maybe even a bunch of illicit and not illicit fundraising through book tours etc.; Tucker Carlson will keep his ride or die advertisers and he will continue to broadcast from his safe space in Florida out of a green screen. Hannity will just show up at another Freedumb rally somewhere and hawk merch and continue to blather up the void leftover from Rush Limbaugh.

Even if they absolutely lose this case, they're never coughing up a billion dollars in damages, and none of them are going to jail, and none of them are going to get #canceled. The days when Jon Stewart could go on the air and utterly tank Carlson's viewer base are gone because he's not looking to cater to balanced, fact-sensitive audiences anymore. He learned the wrong lessons from that - to find a base of viewers and advertisers that isn't interested in that, they're interested in Winning and Alternative Facts.

It's a valid insight into why American politics is the clownworld it is today (and by "today" I mean since the 80's. Everything is about ratings and show.

Bread and circuses.

Which is funny because conservatives and republicans like strong authoritative figureheads and leaders with big brass balls to tell them what’s what but if news people told them, you know - facts about life they needed to hear - they’d go “how **** dare you” and flip the channel to another station of sycophants like newsmax.

Unreal....

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/03/donald-trump-song-charity-single-january-6-prisoners?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

In "Things that come as absolutely no surprise," Kellyanne and George Conway are divorcing: https://pagesix.com/2023/03/03/kellyanne-conway-and-george-conway-to-divorce/

ETTD strikes, yet again, this time the Conway's marriage is the victim.

Yeah, the family is spread out over the East Coast, but she and Mom have worked some things out. https://www.bustle.com/politics/claudia-conway-tiktok-kellyanne-coming-out