The Malignant Loser's Very Bad, No Good Week

Someone who should've been in prison long ago had a very bad day, and week:

It was a nightmare day for Donald Trump in court. Again.

The former president has had no shortage of legal and political setbacks since leaving the White House. But in recent weeks, the sheer volume of acute threats — both criminal and civil — have put Trump in a vise unlike any he’s faced before.

On Tuesday, those threats expanded. The Supreme Court put years of Trump’s tax returns in the hands of House Democrats, and a three-judge appeals court panel — which included two of Trump’s own appointees — appeared poised to rule resoundingly in favor of the Justice Department, in a case involving its seizure of documents from Mar-a-Lago.

Consider also:

• Attorney General Merrick Garland has appointed a special counsel — public corruption prosecutor Jack Smith — to oversee the Mar-a-Lago probe, as well as matters arising from Trump’s effort to subvert the 2020 election and prevent the transfer of power to Joe BIden.

• The Jan. 6 select committee is preparing to unload a massive report and 1,000 witness transcripts that could provide more explosive evidence about Trump’s attempt to subvert the 2020 election, and fuel DOJ’s ongoing criminal probe of the matter.

• Trump’s business empire has been placed under the watch of monitor Barbara Jones, a consequence of New York Attorney General Tish James’ lawsuit alleging widespread fraud by Trump, his businesses, and family members.

• An Atlanta-area district attorney has reached deeply into Trump’s inner circle to obtain testimony about Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Tuesday became the latest witness to provide substantive testimony to the special grand jury.

Another investigation not mentioned is the Manhattan D.A.'s re- examination of hush payments made by the Malignant Loser to Stormy Daniels, which may or may not amount to anything given the Manhattan D.A.

The law of averages would suggest that at some point, the Malignant Loser's luck (if that's all it is) will run out in one or more of these investigations.  One would think.

"It Was All A Hoax"

A snippet from the latest installment from the New York Times on malignant moron Donald "Art of the Steal" Trump's tax returns and brilliant businessman facade:

From the back seat of a stretch limousine heading to meet the first contestants for his new TV show “The Apprentice,” Donald J. Trump bragged that he was a billionaire who had overcome financial hardship.

“I used my brain, I used my negotiating skills and I worked it all out,” he told viewers. “Now, my company is bigger than it ever was and stronger than it ever was.”

It was all a hoax.

Months after that inaugural episode in January 2004, Mr. Trump filed his individual tax return reporting $89.9 million in net losses from his core businesses for the prior year. The red ink spilled from everywhere, even as American television audiences saw him as a savvy business mogul with the Midas touch.

Twelve years later, that image of the self-made, self-saved mogul, beamed into the national consciousness, would help fuel Mr. Trump’s improbable election to the White House.

But while the story of “The Apprentice” is by now well known, the president’s tax returns reveal another grand twist that has never been truly told — how the popularity of that fictional alter ego rescued him, providing a financial lifeline to reinvent himself yet again. And then how, in an echo of the boom-and-bust cycle that has defined his business career, he led himself toward the financial shoals he must navigate today.

Mr. Trump’s genius, it turned out, wasn’t running a company. It was making himself famous — Trump-scale famous — and monetizing that fame.  (our emphasis)

That Trump is the king of tax- dodging/ fraud and an incompetent businessman on an epic scale is no longer a question to be argued by rational people.  He's been conning his marks and suckers via various media since his name first appeared in the public eye.  Now it's all coming out for voters to decide if a "thing" of such low character, criminality and incompetence should be rewarded with another term in the White (Supremacist) House. 

History already has it's first draft written.

"He Screwed The Country Way More"

Stephen Colbert wraps up the Trump tax returns gift- that- keeps- on- giving, noting of Trump's measly $750 tax payments in 2016 and 2017, "Trump paid Stormy Daniels $130,000;  he screwed the country way more."  The risible myth of Trump the Genius Businessman is also an easy target for Colbert.