In retrospect, hitting Trump with everything, everywhere, all at once, seems like a winning strategy

[Beastly Boy]

And I don't mean indictments alone, even though this is the ultimate goal. I mean the number of investigations and their duration (as I keep getting reminded on a regular basis, investigations lasting 25 months and counting) that unquestionably facilitated Trump's gradual demise, in both political and legal terms.

This is turning Trump's own strategy against him: procuring legal expertise to wear his opponents out.

Except this time, it is Trump who is being overwhelmed, slowly but surely, with exceptionally competent adversaries. Like the Wagnerites at Bakhmut, he is losing his most battle-hardened and experienced legal resources to attrition. He is increasingly being represented by second and third, and occasionally fourth grade legal resources, rather than the first grade law firms and attorneys he used to have at his disposal in the past. And these relative juniors make mistakes. Mistakes that, as we speak, are being exploited by the various law enforcement organizations across the country. All at once.

Whatever the next few days or weeks may bring, it is clear that Trump is not keeping up. And that is the surest way to trace the trajectory of where he is going. Not a speculation.

[CrispyQ]

1. Bragg, Willis, & Smith, oh my!

A girl can dream.

They'd have to call in the hazmat team from the stench of his diaper, alone.

[Ocelot II]

2. No matter what finally happens - whether or not TFG is ever convicted of any crime -

what's become obvious is that he will spend the rest of his life tangled up in prosecutions and civil lawsuits. He will have to pay large amounts of money to incompetent lawyers because the good ones won't work for him. He will have to attend multiple depositions, interviews, court hearings and trials. If the civil lawsuits are successful he will pay a lot of money in judgments - and courts can place liens on his assets to be sure those judgments are paid. If convicted of a crime he may or may not be sentenced to prison or (more likely) house arrest. There will be appeals and more hearings and more lawyers' fees. It will never stop. He will be 77 in June, so per life expectancy tables he might live another nine years. He will spend all nine of those years, if the stress doesn't do him in first, on a constantly-spinning gerbil wheel of legal proceedings. It might not be perfect justice but it will do my vindictive heart some good just to watch that.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

4. Great take, and it's about exactly the level of vindication

I've allowed myself to develop expectations about. Dude has slept his last peaceful night, he may at some point be under house arrest, with no passport, and he may well die broke.

Anything more is gravy, and I've stopped getting my hopes up.

[Beastly Boy]

5. Dying broke may be a bigger blow to Trump than dying in prison.

A round of Schadenfreude on me!

[Hugh_Lebowski]

6. Another bit of it we've gotten is that his little Princess seems to be rejecting him

To the extent that the man is capable of love (as us non-sociopathic narcissists would understand the term), I think he loves Ivanka. Perhaps to a disturbing degree, but that's beside the point.

I would bet that her ghosting his ass after 1/6 is eating him up. She's not going to work on the campaign, she ain't saying shit about witchhunt's and the like, at least not publicly, and I doubt she'll comment if he gets indicted.

I'm really shocked Melania is still around, but I'm guessing she'll be next ... probably right after some large monetary penalty is handed down that's going to break him financially.

[sheshe2]

3. Bwhahahaha

[live love laugh]

7. And Carroll!

I gleefully imagine the shit show that it must be to coordinate his legal challenges.

[dutch777]

8. As a practical matter, I wonder how all the prosecuters will deconflict their court schedules?

Trump can only be in one place at one time. His lawyers may have a similar point. I wonder if it will be done in order of when he was indicted or some other mechanism for who/what charge gets to go first? For me, it's a good problem to have....endless Trump court dates to look forward to until he dies. Seems like justice all by itself. I wonder if judges will gag him so he can't rant about the "unfairness" endlessly?