Put a fork in Donald Trump. He’s done. The beginning of the end, a press release from the Office of The New York State Attorney General noting that the civil investigation into The Trump Organization that’s about a month old will be evolving into a criminal probe. The press release did not give further details but suggested a parallel investigation with the Manhattan DA into the Trump Organization’s banking activities. According to one source, Trump over valued the price of assets to obtain bank loans.
In the grand scheme of financial chicanery it may sound mild, but don’t underestimate the people who hate Donald Trump, high on the list is his former attorney Michael Cohen, the man Trump used to fix various problems. It was Cohen who made the so-called hush money payment to Porn Star Stormy Daniels and his fingerprints are on many Trump financial deals. He’s jailed for lying to congress. He didn’t get a term ending pardon from Donald Trump. He will turn on Trump, bet on it. All he’ll need is a grant of immunity from further prosecution. Expect that to happen. Prosecutors have no problem throwing back the little fish, if what those fish have to say can land the whale-and Trump is Moby Dick.
Trump is adapting his public Alfred E Neuman persona. What, me worry? He’ll tell anyone that will listen that it’s all fake news. As he has for years, he’ll also repeat that his tax returns are under audit, and he can’t reveal sensitive data.
There are millions who will fall for this canard. Voters who remember how The Donald handled the economy, handled the North Koreans and The Iranians and how he was moving along with that big wall to keep the so-called undocumented throngs of would-be refugees out.
Hard line Trump supporters have no problem ignoring Trump’s indiscretions and ego mania, when compared to the left-wing agenda that’s being played out by the trillions in the Biden administration. For now, he’s still the Man in Waiting, the frontrunner to unseat Joe Biden or perhaps Kamala Harris is 2024. But there are these mounting legal concerns. That investigation in NY, another in Atlanta, where prosecutors contend he tried to intimidate and threaten officials to get the November results overturned. Then there’s the promise of a full throttle congressional investigation into the attack by Trump supporters on the US Capitol and what he may have had to do with it. And the allegations that he drained supporters after November, allegedly to fight voter fraud, when the money went to a general Trump slush fund, that down the road may find its’ way into the bank accounts of attorneys trying to fight charges against Trump’s businesses.
The GOP’s surgical strike on Wyoming Representative Lynn Cheney earlier this month is evidence that for now Trump loyalists are still in control of the Republican Party, but for how long? The task ahead and it’s an arduous one, is to beat back the left-wing surge in Washington, retake the White House and at least control of the senate.
The mission is more important than the man—and as charges mount—Donald Trump’s re-run at age 77 may not be viable. Politicians are not a sentimental bunch, and if a ride on the Trump Train isn’t going to return them to Washington and return them to power, they may put their money on someone else.
There’s an old saying dating back to the Daley regime in Chicago—and it applies here.
Don’t make no waves. Don’t back no losers.