Sunday, January 15, 2023

Do you hear what I hear?

 You have to listen carefully to hear anything besides "BIDEN DOCUMENTS CLASSIFIED BIDEN BIDEN INVESTIGATION DOCUMENTS" but in brief intervals of quiet, over the birdsong and sounds of trucks backing up, justice may be approaching.

Not from Washington, where the Republicans are ripping up the paving stones and erecting barricades to  protect the Worst Criminal in American History from Jack Smith.  From Fulton County, Georgia, where District Attorney Fani Willis has quietly spent a year presenting a grand jury with evidence that Trump violated the state's racketeering law when he tried to strongarm Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger into falsifying the vote count in 2020.  I'm not even sure how she has jurisdiction since the crime was committed in Washington, D.C. -- all Raffensperger did was reluctantly answer the phone and say no.  But I'm very glad she has, because she has enough courage for two and should share it with Merrick Garland.  In Georgia the actual indictment must be issued by a judge and it's hard to figure out who that is (possibly for his protection) but it looks like County Judge Robert McBurney is the last hurdle.  

Trump's lawyers will raise every kind of objection they can dream up to keep him off the witness stand -- he's busy running for president!  her father was once a Black Panther!  BONE SPURS! -- but once his scabby hand hits the Bible it's all over.  A combination of arrogance, stupidity and his own sense of invulnerability make Trump the worst witness in the world.  Let us examine his sworn deposition in the defamation lawsuit of E. Jean Carroll.  

He claims he never met Carroll, despite photos of them with her former husband many years ago.  But he knows her well enough to offer a psychiatric diagnosis ("nut job," "mentally sick").  

He misquoted her in an interview she gave Anderson Cooper, where she explained why she disliked the word "rape" ("I think most people think of rape as being sexy").  Trump:  "She actually indicated that she loved it, OK?...She said it was very sexy to be raped."  Carroll's attorney Roberta Kaplan:  "It's your testimony that E. Jean Carroll said that she loved being sexually assaulted by you?"  "Well, based on her interview with Anderson Cooper I believe that's what took place."  He ranted about "having to waste a whole day" on the deposition when he could have watched television or played golf.  He used the word "hoax" a lot and bragged about how his one-horse media platform is more successful than Twitter.  (To be fair, neither of them pays its bills.)  When Kaplan asked if he was the pussy-grabber he boasted of being he said, "I will tell you not, but you may have some people like your client that lie."  (He has no idea how many other victims are prepared to testify at trial.)  Alina Habba couldn't make him shut up.  She may fondly remember her days of representing a parking garage in New Jersey.

I never met her, she's mentally ill, I didn't rape her but she said she loved it.  The lawsuit will only cost him money.  Fani Willis's case will cost whatever time he has left.  I have to believe this.

   


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