It appears the President has been a very bad boy, Santa’s got nothing but coal for little Donnie Trump this year.
Cohen has been sentenced, and Trump has been implicated as an unindicted co-conspirator in the case.
Manafort’s cooperation deal with the Special Council is kaput. Mueller’s publicly-released sentencing memo details how Manafort covered up various criminal acts, at the direction of the president, then repeatedly lied about it when he was supposedly cooperating.
Maria Butina has pleaded “guilty” to conspiring to act as a foreign agent (no shit, people, she’s a RUSSIAN SPY)!
Worst yet:
American Media Inc. (A.M.I.) president and Trump ally David J. Pecker, has admitted to paying off Karen McDougal in 2016 to HELP PROTECT DONALD J. TRUMP’S ELECTION PROSPECTS, at Trump’s direction. Ouch, that’s a federal felony, folks.
Pecker holds substantial documentary evidence of Trump’s criminal activity over three decades, thanks to the “catch and kill” arrangement he made with Pecker. One condition of A.M.I.’s plea deal is that they hand over everything they have on Trump to New York STATE prosecutors.
But wait, there’s more!
Vanity Fair reports that incoming New York Attorney General, Letitia James, is planning a “major, sweeping investigation into Trump, his family, and anyone in his orbit who might have broken the law.” In her statement, Ms. James promises that the AG’s office ““…will use every area of the law to investigate President Trump and his business transactions, and that of his family as well…”” Daaammmmnnnnn.
Federal pardons do not apply to state crimes; Trump and his overly-privileged, entitled, and thoroughly corrupt troll hatchlings are so fucked.
However, this is America, where justice is for sale and rich, white motherfuckers don’t always (almost never) ‘do the time’ for their crimes. It’s entirely possible that no one with the last name Trump (or Kushner) will get locked up. However, there are worse things than prison.
Trump is a terrible businessman. Since his total failure to turn Atlantic City into a gold-plated playground in the 1980s, he’s kept his company alive by laundering illicit Russian Mob money through extensive real estate schemes (aka “financial crimes”). His other primary revenue source is Trump brand licensing.
Ongoing criminal investigations have surfaced just how thoroughly Russia has compromised Trump, and made it exponentially more risky for Russia to leverage their asset. Bye-bye illegal-as-fuck Russian money.
Trump’s racism, xenophobia, and nationalism have damaged his brand to the point where companies are stripping his name off of their hotels, and retailers have dropped his daughter’s fashion line. Bye-bye brand-driven revenue.
Oh, and those Trump ‘charities’ that he and his have used for years to fund their ‘rich and famous’ lifestyle, and keep up those golf clubs that lose millions every year? Yes, those are history as well, courtesy of N.Y. A.G. James’s super-invasive justice probe. Bye-bye free ride.
Strip away the billions in dirty Russian money, the brand value that convinces people to listen to his “greatest businessman ever” bullshit, the media access to broadcast that BS across the globe, and the charities that enable him to dupe people and evade taxes, what is left?
A fraud; an impostor; a pretender. An ignorant, born-rich fuckwhit who has never built anything himself, never earned anything himself, and only values himself. Fully revealed, he is buck-ass naked, and his farcical presidency could cost him the only thing he truly values: his privilege.
Post-presidency, he’ll live in a world where he is a joke, not a genius, and the world will treat him accordingly. His loss of privilege is a far worse punishment than a federal or state prison sentence.
Happy Christmas, Mr. President.
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