Donny is telling his faithful loyalists that he’s “gagged” in court. “They won’t let me speak.” Well, they don’t just let the defendant have a chat in the courtroom but that’s not a gag. His gag order only prevents him from attacking court staff (except the judge), their families, witnesses, their families, or prosecutors families.

We’ve seen this before from him and I’m still not used to it. He’s not faking this. If he can’t say horrible things about people, he has nothing to say. What kind of mind is that? He continues to claim prosecutors have no case. Then it should be an easy matter to get in there and prove your innocence, right? No problem. So just do that. But, no. He has to attack, threaten, and intimidate.

What a loser.

I know I’ve said it before but I’m just tired of his shtick. He really needs new material. Yeah, we get it, Donny. Everybody lies but you. Everybody is out to get you. YOU’RE the big fighter able to leap tall buildings in a single bound but you’re ALSO getting pushed around by the DOJ like you’re, you know, a criminal. It’s all political. Biden is a senile old fool and ALSO the mastermind behind this entire criminal prosecution. Yawn. BOR-ING!

Barring some unexpected development, opening statements start Monday. I expect the prosecutor to lay out facts, supported by evidence. I expect the defense to whine. Then cry. Then obfuscate. Then cry some more. “C’mon, guys, this isn’t fair!” His BEST defense is, “You shouldn’t do this to an ex-president” but that defense is terrible. In fact, the ex-president shouldn’t have committed those crimes.

The media thinks his actual best hope is finding a juror who can’t be convinced, that is, a MAGA who slipped through the cracks. But playing for a hung jury isn’t anywhere near winning. When a chess player is in a game that hasn’t gone their way, the last ditch effort to keep from losing is called a stalemate, a tie. But in chess, a tie ends the game. For Donny, a tie ends THAT trial but might well lead to another. So even that is no guarantee he walks away from this.

In truth, this is the “little trial.” Odds are best he loses but I don’t see him going to jail over this one. Unless the case is bigger than just paying off his side-honeys, he cooked his books (by his own dumbass admission) to the tune of about $280,000. That’s not much in corporate criminal terms. He likely won’t go to jail, even if they find him guilty. He’ll likely face a fine and perhaps some probation. BUT…

He WILL be a felon. I think THAT is my favorite part of this, particular, trial. If he’s found guilty, he won’t be able to vote for himself come November. MAGA really should take note of that – even Donald Trump won’t be voting for Donald Trump. Why would anybody else?

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MAGA Mike did a not-so-MAGA thing. I’ll be interested in seeing how this plays out. He worked with Democrats and reasonable Roepublicans to pass aid for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. The Freedumb Caucus is very upset with him for doing something that helps someone. That runs the risk of looking like a win for Joe Biden, although it’s really just doing the right thing. MAGA HATES when Congress does the right thing.

MAGA Marge has already filed the paperwork to remove Johnson as Speaker. She has a handful of like-minded marginals on her side. She CAN call for his removal though she has not done so as of this writing. MAGA media started right away talking about Johnson now heading a “coalition government.” MAGA HATES cooperation.

It’s curious because I have MAGA Mike down as the person willing to overthrow the November election on false pretenses in order to install Donny, like they wanted Mike Pence to do in 2021. If Johnson is removed, he loses power to do that. Besides, how long would it take them to find yet another Speaker? They don’t HAVE another fifteen months.

So, I suspect there will be much MAGA moaning and shouting but Marge won’t pull the trigger on removal. That gives Johnson a chance to do the right thing a time or two just to provide the appearance of reasonableness. MAGA can be mad at him today (or pretend to be) but they need him in the Speaker position on January 3rd if they’re going to try to pull off their next coup attempt.

I’ll tell you this: I’m not looking for Johnson’s removal. But if they do? I’m going to laugh and laugh and laugh…