Rich donors are paying as much as $300,000 per person to attend a Trump fundraiser in San Francisco today. What do they expect in return for their money?
Whatever the donors in SFO, paying $300,000 each to support Trump, are expecting in return for their pocket change, odds are they'll get more than they expect, even after Donny diverts a chunk of that to his lawyers. Donny is such a good negotiator.
Trump knows he's lying. His supporters know he's lying - they cheered him on when he led the lock her up chants at his Nuremberg-style rallies.
His followers accept as an act of faith the world as Trump describes it, and accept that he changes it on a whim. They will not challenge him on it.
They feed on his lies, which make the world seem simpler, easier, fixable, if only their Leader had enough power to make it so. They're determined to give it to him.
Ignoring facts and the truth become acts of followership and loyalty to one's cult leader. The process manufactures followers who will believe, and, therefore, do anything. What every dictator wants in his pocket. They need it to stay a dictator.
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Trump has ensnared the whole GOP in support of his lies. He always finds a cudgel with which to beat his enemies. But who are the monied interests supporting and advocating for them both? Your article suggests a few answers.
Franklin Graham must be listening to an AI version of "God's Will."
She may want Trump to be forgiven, like all sinners, but She could hardly want him to prosper and succeed in furthering his crimes, and to show others how to crime without consequence, at the expense of those who follow Her rules, and not those who desecrate them.
So, WTF is Graham doing with this highly political message?
“Mother Teresa could not beat these charges.” Yes, that's a real quote from Donald Trump, who is now awaiting a verdict in his Manhattan criminal trial. As the jury deliberates, Jay Kuo breaks down what happens next in the trial, including what a likely conviction would look like. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/trump-trial-jury-preparing-verdict
Donald Trump wouldn't know Mother Theresa if she blessed him in the middle of St. Patrick's Cathedral. Nor would he give her the time of day. He would deport her.
If Trump is convicted, it won't be because he has the slightest thing in common with Mother Theresa. It will be because the evidence led the jury there, beyond a reasonable doubt.
It's not clear anyone has successfully held Donald Trump to account since he left his crib (already a millionaire). This would be about time.
Personally, if Trump's found guilty of a felony, I favor house arrest in his 30,000 sq. foot [sic] Manhattan condo. Limited freedom 24/7, publicly embarrassing, easier for the USSS to do their job. Followed by supervised release and community service - with an elections office.
