Weekend Process Notes: Is Donald Trump’s Luck Finally Running Out?
Donald Trump’s luck may be finally running out, according to anti-Trumpian Republican attorney George Conway, husband to Kellyanne, one of Trump’s ex-senior advisors.
Should we really get our hopes up after spending five+ years watching Donald violate the law, our customs, and common decency with impunity?
Trump’s out of office — so a promise to someday pardon law-breakers is too far in the future. It’s meaningless to someone facing jail time right now.
More significant — it’s looking like Republican judges are sick of Donald’s frivolous and dishonest use of the courts.
We think of judges as the ultimate in socially conservative ideals. It’s rare to see a judge publicly respect a mobster or a mobster-like persona. They don’t like to be associated with gangsters, it’s too “low class”.
Judges like to appear regal — after all, they’re still willing to put up with wearing those hot, excessively heavy, ridiculously medieval-style robes. They like to exude class, whether or not they graduated from Harvard or Yale law school.
Donald is not classy. He’s a male-beauty-product greased up, overly-oiled slimy imitation of a businessman. His ostentatious taste — at home and in the office — demonstrates a stunning lack of sophistication. He’s the ultimate poster boy for toxic masculinity.
The thought of sex with Trump is nauseating and while this may not influence our judges, it’s a factor in the minds of the women they live with and love.
So the judges — in the interest of self-protection even if they have no concern with protecting the nation — seem to be sick of Donald.
There may be a few he still controls with blackmail tactics — the judge who made too many trips to Epstein’s child-molesting island may have something to fear from Donald. But not most. This time it’s not just money he’s about to lose. It’s reputation. Despite his shamelessness, his public show of disinterest in reputation, in the end, it’s all he really cares about. Attention, flash, more attention.
The loss of reputation leads to the loss of adoring syncophants, public admiration, and finally, media attention. Here’s hoping Conway’s right.
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