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

It goes back to Iowa in 2016, same playbook. Guts of a decade later, rinse & repeat. Depressing really.

Indeed. The fact that a fair percentage of the population is willing to believe one man, a conman and court-confirmed sexual deviant with multiple bankruptcies against his name, 4 times indicted and twice impeached, over the findings of the courts and Congress, just confirms to me that its a cult we're dealing with.

I kind of doubt he'd be happy even then.

I think I remember watching a documentary on Trump shortly before the 2016 Election, where they covered a lot of Trump's adventures and failures throughout the 80's and 90's. From his early days working with his father up to the incredible disaster that was the Trump Taj Mahal.

One segment covered Trump making the move to Reality TV and "The Apprentice". In it, one of the creating producers of The Apprentice described going to Trump Tower in the late 90's to pitch the idea to Donald Trump, to see if he'd be interested being the lead character in their new show. He described a sorry sight upon entering Trump's office. The room apparently stank and looked like it was decaying, as if it hadn't been maintained in years.

Futhermore, upon agreeing to be in the show Trump apparently insisted that he be described as a "Billionare". Apparently this was very important to him, and came up often.

Kind of paints a picture of a washed up loser, already then in the late 90's, early 2000's. who had pissed away all of his inheritence on countless failed business ideas and if it hadn't been for the life-saver of Reality TV, he would have decayed futher into obsurity.

Trump needs the limelight, and something to declare himself as special. Be it "Billionare", "The Donald", or most lately the "President of the United States". I think beyond the protections of the office of POTUS, both legal and financial, it is this sense of *being special and important* that he wants to cling onto, no matter the cost to the rest of the world.

For his efforts, I hope the history books will remember him as the danger that many of us already percieve him as.

Regarding the thing about wanting to make sure he was called a billionaire, years ago when they did the Roast of Donald Trump, the comedians were told the only thing that was off limits was his bankruptcies and saying he had less money than he claimed; they could only refer to him as a billionaire not a millionaire.

His marriages, kids... none of those were off limits. Just don't say he's not a billionaire.

SCOTUS are hearing arguments today re whether Trump should be on the ballot.

Considering his wife was involved, how the **** is it okay for Clarence Thomas to not recuse himself?

Unless Thomas himself has expressed support for the 'Stop the Steal' movement, then the argument would be that he's unduly influenced by people with whom he has a close association. I cannot discount that as a possibility, but it then opens up the question of what individuals a SCOTUS justice is surrounded by and what their political beliefs are, not just for him, but everyone on the panel. At the end of the day, they're human beings and it has to be trusted that they're making judgements on points of law rather than what their spouse thinks about a particular issue. Not a perfect system, but what system made of people is?

live feed from SCOTUS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M56LTKOHyQ

If it is a clear conflict of interest, then is there not some mechanism to recuse him without needing his approval?

If the court finds against Trump on the questions being asked, then a dissenting opinion from Thomas wouldn't really matter because such a finding requires a majority of justices to agree. If we assume that Thomas and Trump's three appointees are walking around in private wearing MAGA hats, the SCOTUS still has a non-MAGA majority of 5-4, as the assumption of conservative=Trump supporter disregards that Conservatism before Trump and after aren't exactly the same.

Yeah, it looks like they are going to side with Citizen Trump.

Trump speaking now about the democratics interfering in the election again referring to the Supreme court ballot hearing.

Another word salad, bullshit bingo so he can wrangle some dollars from the uneducated masses.

No one with their head screwed on listens to him anymore.

Exhibit A