Wednesday 10 May 2023

Proven sexual abuse accusation won't stop Teflon Don

I can only go on what the jury decided in the civil court case brought against Donald Trump. They decided the former president was liable for what was claimed to have taken place in the changing room of a clothing shop many years ago. It wasn't like a criminal case where he had been convicted and faced a prison sentence but the woman in the case, E Jean Carroll, described what Trump did to her in the changing room and the jury beieved her. Trump said he had never heard of or met Jean Carroll. But, again, the jury backed her, not Trump. But is any of this going to make any difference to Trump's campaign for the White House. Amazingly, cynically, bizarrely, unbelievably it seems it will not make a ha'p'orth of difference. In fact Trump will use what he says is a false accusation to promote his vote-winning slogan that he is the victim of a witchhunt and a fake news campaign to undermine his right to return to the White House as president. Any other politician in the United States of America and it would have been a very different picture. But for Trump every setback is a plus in his view. So he will charge on, building his MAGA following until it swamps everyone. Mitt Romney, one of the few Republicans to speak out and dare say that Trump is not fit to be president has no such following. He is regarded as an outsider in the Republican party. Marco Rubio for heaven's sake, the senator from Miami who has been critical of Trump in the past, has come out in his support. Has he decided Trump is going to beat Biden and therefore, if he wants a job in the Trump administration, he has to go all Trump lovey-dovey? I fear so. Donald Trump is truly Teflon Don.

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