Disappointing. I wrote last Thursday (2 days ago) that the trumpster had called a presser to finally release a “large and complex” report providing his incontrovertible, incontestable evidence that everybody on the planet is guilty except for him. I allowed for the possibility that THIS time, for various reasons, he might be telling the truth. Of course, the topic IS Donald Trump, so I also wrote: “I mean, it’s either that or…just another lie in a long, unbroken string of lies…”

Guess which one it turned out to be?

He said that on the advice of his lawyers (<– THAT part is likely true) he was canceling the presser. “My lawyers would prefer putting this…in formal Legal Filings…” he lied. (No word on why he capitalized ‘Legal Filings.’) His lawyers would prefer putting this into a garbage can and there will be no “Legal Filings,” capitalized or not, citing this extra special, super-de-duper, and oh-so-irrefutable (but non-existent) “report.”

Did you know? Decent attorneys get trained on “lawyerin’.” They’re taught that they’re not allowed to lie to the courts nor encourage or knowingly allow their clients to lie to the courts. They KNOW they can be fined, lose their license to practice, or even go to jail for doing so. Federalist Society “attorneys” are apparently taught, instead, “conservative law” – which means lying is central to their cases so they have to hide their lies carefully. Several of them are in serious trouble, having tried the tactic.

The trumpster doesn’t hide his lies. He doubles down. The thing is, everybody knows (even MAGAs know, they just won’t confess) he’s lying about everything all the time. Some very good lawyers are tracking every lie he spews on the topic and just adding it to the charges. Keep talking, dumbass.

I’ll tell you this: I’m very impressed that some lawyer, somewhere, FINALLY got him to stand down from one of his harebrained schemes. I had actually come to believe that he was out to prove that nobody, but nobody, could force him to do the right thing – ever. In the end, though, he decided NOT to hand the prosecution a brand-new raft of actual incontrovertible, incontestable evidence against himself. Hey, maybe even a MAGA can learn…

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Sorry. Math. I’ll keep it simple. Let’s say your group is 1,000,000 people and 500,000 of them support a given candidate. That’s 50%, right? Okay, so the same 500,000 people continue to support that candidate but the group is now only 600,000 strong. Suddenly, the candidate in question enjoys 83% support. He didn’t gain a single supporter. The overall group got smaller. Worse, if the group is 600,000 strong and now only 400,000 people support him, his numbers are still 67% support. His percentage went up but his actual support went down.

From time to time – by which I mean “daily” – I hear that Trump leads the GOP nominating process by – whatever. It’s usually a big number. It recently fell from 43% of GOP to 41% of GOP. It sounds ominous. But consider, since the trumpster became the poster child of the GOP, the party, itself, has dwindled. Rational conservatives started leaving the party in droves. No, they’re not Democrats. They went independent. When they DO vote, they will likely vote with the GOP but, perhaps, not straight ticket. Maybe they’ll just skip the Presidential race. But…

When pollsters call, they call registered party members. The MAGAs have been embarrassing rational people out of the party for some time, now. So it’s a smaller group, overall, but more dedicated to delusion than ever before. Remember this: whenever you hear a percentage, it’s useless unless you know the base number it’s a percentage of. We rarely hear that number.

Barring a 14th amendment block, the base will likely make him the nominee, despite his long and ever-increasing list of indictments and, likely, despite the fact that his administration will have to take place from a prison cell. But how many people beyond the MAGA base will support traitorous insanity? I doubt many.

I’ll tell you this: I think the smaller GOP CAN make him the nominee. I doubt (maybe just desperately hope) they don’t have the votes to make him president again…