Need a clear-eyed view of the forest through the trees?

[ariadne0614]

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/michael-cohen-and-the-end-stage-of-the-trump-presidency
“The narrative that will become widely understood is that Donald Trump did not sit atop a global empire. He was not an intuitive genius and tough guy who created billions of dollars of wealth through fearlessness. He had a small, sad operation, mostly run by his two oldest children and Michael Cohen, a lousy lawyer who barely keeps up the pretenses of lawyering and who now faces an avalanche of charges, from taxicab-backed bank fraud to money laundering and campaign-finance violations.”

[Skittles]

1. Trump fears this more than any of his sick sex stuff

the world knowing he is an utter fraud

[watoos]

2. He should have gone to jail for Trump U.

He didn't go to jail for the Trump U. fraud because he didn't scam any rich people like Bernie Madoff did.

[oberliner]

3. And yet he somehow became President of the United States

What does that tell us?

[raccoon]

5. That anybody can become president. Nt

[oberliner]

6. That is definitely not true

[raccoon]

14. Should I have added LOL? Apparently it was needed. Nt

[shraby]

11. That cheating works.

There are many reasons trump won. Gerrymandering, voter suppression, Cambridge Analytica, Facebook, Russia hacking, and I believe a bit of vote flipping where it was really tight and he needed to hang on to the electoral college edge.

Don't forget, Hillary won the popular vote which says a whole lot.

[oberliner]

12. I think it says more than that

How was he able to win the Republican nomination?

To me that is an even more fascinating question.

[flygal]

4. I hope so, but trump university...TWO casinos closed during the election..

how many bankruptcies? and yet here we are.

[TexasBushwhacker]

7. And let's not forget the bankruptcies he caused

by stiffing vendors. There are family businesses that were around for decades that went under because of his non-payment.

[Rorey]

8. I've tried to explain to my husband that

It just isn't logical to expect that someone who has had multiple bankruptcies to suddenly become a great businessman. He wasn't a good businessman and still isn't a good businessman. He was ripe for the picking to be used for money laundering and other criminal activities.

The sad thing is, when this is all over for the Trumps and Cohen, and when everything is exposed, his followers will still believe that it was all a conspiracy to bring down the president they thought would save them.

These are the fools who buy into pyramid schemes and/or spend half of their meager paychecks on lottery tickets.

Anyway, the article by Davidson in The New Yorker is great. I even printed it out so I can show it to my husband in a couple of months (or however painfully long it takes) when the farce is exposed.

[ariadne0614]

9. Many chickens are coming home to roost.

Surely their weight will be enough to finally collapse this house of cards. Metaphors abound.

[Pluvious]

13. And the money laundering fines the casinos got hit for n/t

[rzemanfl]

10. K&R n/t.