Category 5 Ketchup Storm

 So, Donald Trump has not had a very fun day in court.

The New York Attorney General has filed suit against Trump for various forms of fraud and tax evasion. The outlines of these charges have been known since the fall of 2019 when the NY Times published an in-depth report - using Mary Trump as its main source - that the Trump family had evaded taxes and engaged in various forms of fraud for decades. It is of course ridiculous that it has taken this long to file this suit and we can only hope that AG James' criminal referral to the IRS will be expedited and not buried under a façade of "well, we might upset some people.."

If that wasn't bad enough, the 11th Circuit just slapped around Trump and his hand-picked judge, Federalist Society hack Aileen Cannon, in allowing the DOJ to continue to examine the classified materials they took from Mar A Lago. Not only are those documents now removed from the Special Master's purview, they pretty much ripped to shreds Trump's "argument" that he had somehow magically declassified the documents or even whether it mattered if he did. That two of the judges who ruled against him were appointed by him is just delicious.

Now, the usual idiots on Twitter are claiming that this is "Biden's DOJ conducting a witch hunt." The reality is that Trump is just a guy who has done a shitload of crimes and gotten away with it because he's "rich" and famous. Now, he's coming face to face with his worst nightmares. The House has gotten its hands on his tax returns. The January 6th Committee has Alex Jones' phone records and lord knows what else. Now, his fraudulent business empire is under direct assault and his national security fiasco is going to proceed.

Trump has to be freaked out and furious.

I'm torn about how I want this to end up. I've always worried about finding an impartial jury for Trump that doesn't consist of 12 morons. How do you not have an opinion on this guy? 

His base will never abandon him, we know that. And clearly the GOP knows how closely linked his base is to their own. They can't win without Cult 45. Ask Mitt Romney.

I sort of hope he flees the country. It's an admission of guilt and presumably he could be tried in absentia. 

Then again, it's going to get worse, not better for him. If he runs in 2024... I mean, he'd have to lose, right? And DeSantis scares the shit out of me.

Whatever, I just hope tonight he's throwing ketchup against the walls of whichever of his tacky-assed hellholes he's currently squatting in.