Hmm. How might Billy Shakespeare describe it?
How Is Trump Fucked? Let Me Count the Ways:
Holy shit, where do I even begin?
Even today, a chunk of the media coverage is pretending this is somehow a good thing for this scumbag,... or that it's completely trivial. Oh my fucking God.
Someone needs to slap the assholes who write this crap.
He now owes E Jean about 90 million dollars. It's not entirely clear he even has $90M, but we'll see.
In a week, he's gonna owe the state of NY around half a Billion. I'll be conservative, and assume the total of this judgment and that judgment are only half a Bil in total.
Idiots today are doing their usual pathetic reflexive whining that, It doesn't mean anything; No one's gonna do anything; Nothing's ever gonna happen to him; He'll never have to pay a cent; He'll just appeal it all forever.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and fucking blah.
These people are such assholes.
Yeah, he can appeal, and probably will. He's gonna lose on appeal, in every case.
He's gotta post the money in the meantime anyway.
But he'll just get a bond; he'll never pay a penny himself.
Bullshit. He can try to get a bond, but in the luckiest case he'll still have to post a lot of money, and post clean collateral to cover the rest.
It's not at all clear anyone wants to bond him anyway. He apparently couldn't get a bond for the first judgment, which was a small fraction of this one. He posted $5.6M to cover that one, and can't touch it till his last appeal's done --and he's gonna lose them all anyway.
At an absolute minimum, if he's incredibly lucky, he'll have to put up a couple hundred mil in cash very soon --and post clean collateral to cover another few hundred mil.
He claims to have a half bil in cash. That's undoubtedly bullshit, like everything else he says.
He's almost certainly gonna have to start selling his precious properties immediately. That by itself will be a massive humiliation, and then it'll get much worse --as the whole world finds out that his actual equity in those 'jewels' is a tiny fraction of what he's claimed all these years.
(The assholes at Forbes or Bloomberg pretty much take the crap he tells them at face value --even when pretending to do a 'deep dive.' The guys who actually know what his real-world finances look like (like Mikey Cohen) --cuz they've seen them from the inside-- say his actual equity after all debt, taxes, penalties, etc., is a small fraction of what's claimed.)
And he's got a court-appointed monitor watching every detail.
We're probably gonna find out it'll take the bulk of his entire net worth to pay these debts.
And he'll have to dismantle his entire world to settle them. Don't be shocked if he has to put that idiotic plane on the block sometime soon. And seeing Trump Tower --and maybe his revolting apartment-- go up for sale will be such a joy I'll probably faint.
And, of course, the unending stress and hassle of dealing with all this in the next year will make it damn near impossible to run much of a Presidential 'campaign.'
And the financial proctology involved in every step of this process is going to expose so much lies and fraud and crime by the Trump fam and Trump Corp, he's going to desperately wish he had just taken some advice for once in his life and shut the fuck up.
And all of this is only the beginning. This judgment is gonna throw the doors wide open for the hundreds of other folks he's disgustingly defamed to think about suing him themselves.
Some of them will do it, and he'll have a whole 'nother slew of court-cases to deal with soon.
E Jean and her lawyers may very likely say Let's go again, and sue him for a third time. If so, they'll win once again.
Judge Kaplan ain't done with him either. He'll probably impose a permanent injunction against Shit-Stain from continuing to lie about her --and if and when he violates it (I mean, come on), he'll be subject to criminal penalties.
So he may very well yet get himself thrown in jail for this case --even though it's only a civil case.
How fucking beautiful is that??
(Gosh, maybe it turns out having a 130-pound smudge of mascara like Alina Habba represent you in front of a real-live judge and jury wasn’t really the best idea in the world. Who could’ve guessed?
And taking the stand in your own ‘defense’ wasn’t exactly a wise move either.
Oh, the shock.)
The Professional Whiners (PWs) have told us, again and again (Whine #74), that he'll never get convicted, cuz some Trumpist asshole will always fuck up any jury --so there's no chance he'll ever lose.
Really? How do you explain what happened yesterday?
Do you really think a juror who would 'nullify' major felony charges to protect his God-Emperor Donny wouldn't have taken the chance to 'nullify' civil charges that will set him on the road to bankruptcy??
God, the stupidity.
In real life, what happens is 1) jury selection does a pretty good job of weeding out the worst Trump psychos; and 2) the evidence against him is always so overwhelming --the case so crystal-clear-- it's almost impossible for someone remotely sane to pretend he's somehow not guilty of what he's very clearly dead guilty of (especially in front of eight other folks who are mostly dealing in reality).
Hence, he loses. Every fucking time he gets before a jury OR a judge,... he loses.
The Whiners ignore all history and logic, to pretend he's somehow now gonna win the rest of the way.
Nope. That's not how this works.
He's about to be functionally bankrupt, and descend into a morass of financial and legal horror from which he can't escape.
AND (as I've been trying to explain to various PWs for a long time now) the outcomes in these civil cases are foreshadowings: it's gonna work just the same in the criminal cases. The evidence will be totally overwhelming, the real Trumpy psychos will be weeded out of juries, and he's gonna lose.
Along with beginning to lose all his money, his business, his 'reputation,' his livelihood, and everything he owns in the next week, he's also about to lose the last-ditch legal 'fire-wall' he thought would save his ass in the end.
The Supremes are about to take a steaming dump on his head in his bid for 'Extreme Immaculate Immunity.'
Judge Amy showed yesterday that even craven little shit-bag toadies like her are willing to step on Donny's balls if they're pushed far enough. (Apparently, helping Governor Abbott murder babies at the border for political clout was finally far enough, for her.)
That's a very bad sign for Donny. He's gonna lose (wow, there's kind of a theme emerging here, isn't there) on immunity, and it's still conceivable they'll fuck him on the 14th, too, and ban him from the ballot.
The three and a half who matter (Barrett, Kav, Gorsuch, and half of Roberts) understand that Trump is very bad for their business, and it's just conceivable they'll simply grab this opportunity to chop his legs off.
Regardless of that, losing on immunity will be kind of a death-blow. Once he knows the courts won't save him anymore, the true desperation sets in.
(That's when he'll start trying really hard to start a serious civil war, but he's gonna lose that one, too.)
Then Judge Chutkan will set the schedule, Bragg's case and the others will start to fall in place, and Donny's Dismemberment will begin in earnest.
This has probably been the worst week in Donny's life. Next week is gonna be MUCH worse.
From there, it only goes down.
For fifty fucking years, he's gotten away with it. Guess what? That's over now.
Consequences for your actions. Wow, what a heavy concept. Consequences is all Donny's gonna get from here on out. Call me crazy, but I don't think he's gonna like it much.
Alyosha the Baptist in Solzhenitsyn says of God, Your patience is long-suffering, but you strike hard.
I doubt very much Donny would understand this even a little, but holy shit is he about to feel it.
GOOD TIMES!