Donald Trump has never liked reading the speeches his aides write for him. He has no choice, because his editors make sure to align the themes he must address. As soon as it can, however, it branches off, it tacks, it zigzags and we are caught up in untangling it all.
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The long tirades that he unpacks at his political rallies have always been anthology pieces of ramblings and inconsistencies. And it’s even worse since he was chased out of the White House by the voters.
Trump has become, as Chris Christie, the former governor of New Jersey, recalled during the last Republican debate, “an angry and bitter man who now wants to become president again to punish everyone who disagrees with him” .
A DAY IN COURT
The former president appeared in court Thursday, this time as a simple observer, in the fraud trial he faces with his eldest sons and his company, the “Trump Organization.” However, he did not miss the opportunity, upon his arrival and departure, to make comments, full of his usual confusion. Judge for yourselves!
“It’s a shameful situation, the country has never seen anything like it.” Not so sure in 247 years of history, but anyway. And Trump continued, in the same vein, by describing the appearance of an accountant called by his lawyers to testify: “This expert witness, well respected by all, with a CV that few people have seen before, declared that there was no fraud, that there was no accounting fraud, that there was nothing and that’s what we’re doing here, while people are being murdered right there. outside on the sidewalks and streets of New York, while people are victims of horrific violent crime at levels no one has ever seen in the city before.”
Word for word! I changed nothing. It is in this confusion that we must find meaning every day.
Frightening details
Even when we give him the chance to be clearer, he ruins the moment. He took part, Tuesday evening in Iowa, in a town hall hosted by FOX News. Addressing recent hints of an authoritarian drift if he returned to the White House, Sean Hannity, the host who constantly doubles as Trump’s “cheerleader-in-chief”, gave the former president the opportunity to reassure all the world: the blunder!
“Under no circumstances will you promise the United States tonight that you will abuse your power in retaliation against anyone…
– Except the first day….
That’s to say?
– I want to close the border and I want to drill [des puits de pétrole] again and again.
After that, I will no longer be a dictator.”
Once again, it’s not us! It is he who announces himself: dictator for a day. To hell with the Constitution, the laws and Congress! Let it be said: the American republic and democracy have a date with History on January 20, 2025, on his famous first day as dictator! If he is elected, of course.
TRUMP AND HIS NEXT APPOINTMENTS WITH JUSTICE
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2023
December 11
- new York
- Civil trial for fraud
Appearance as main defense witness at trial for financial fraud
2024
January 15
- new York
- Civil suit for defamation
Second defamation trial against columnist E. Jean Carroll. She is seeking ten million dollars in damages.
March 4
- Washington, D.C.
- Criminal trial for electoral obstruction
Trump faces four counts related to a conspiracy to subvert the results of the 2020 election.
March 25
- new York
- Criminal trial for falsifying financial statements
He faces 34 counts related to paying $130,000 to buy the silence of Stormy Daniels, a porn actress, regarding an alleged sexual affair.
May 20
- Fort Pierce, Florida
- Criminal trial for dangerous handling of classified documents
Trump faces 40 counts of keeping top-secret documents at Mar-a-Lago and obstructing government efforts to recover them.