They Do Think It’s All About The Gavel

Eric Trump: I think it would be the coolest thing in the world. I would make sure he got a bigger gavel than the small little one that they have. I think Trump needs a huge gavel..

Meanwhile:

They’re debating gavel sizes for a theoretical Trump House speakership while Joe Biden is making medicine affordable. 

Vote accordingly.

The campaign ads just write themselves:

Eric: “My father is really the first and only line of defense for 100+ million Americans … My father is a one man wrecking ball to keep the lunacy and the tyranny from hitting those 100 million.”

Gavel? The boy can’t even handle a metaphor. Not that he makes any more sense than the old man:

Trump: So they put it down at 18 million, and they said I overvalued it because we had it valued at a much lower number than it's worth. And by the way, my financial documents are much less than my actual value, which nobody even knows.

If he sounds like he’s admitting to tax fraud, his defense is: everybody knows he’s a liar, so you can’t believe a word he says. And he’s much richer than he is on paper; you can trust him on that.

So here’s the question:

But perhaps most importantly, Trump came to court to play victim and raise money. The leading GOP presidential candidate told reporters that he was “stuck here” defending himself when he’d rather be campaigning in Iowa, New Hampshire or South Carolina. But he was not stuck in a Manhattan state courtroom any more than he was stuck literally around the corner in the federal courthouse for the E. Jean Carroll trial he never attended. Civil trials do not require the presence of a defendant, period. Trump knows this, which is why, after the lunch break began, he left the trial — which James noted he treated as “a fundraising stop” — in the rearview mirror.  

Like clockwork, the Trump campaign sent another fundraising email within the hour of Trump’s departure, accusing James of “inventing crimes out of thin air,” weaponizing the justice system against Trump, and conspiring with other “Marxists” to prevent his return to power. 

And while it remains to be seen how lucrative his two-and-a-half day courtroom stint will be, something tells me that what motivated Trump to watch hours of testimony about accounting standards was — what else? — the money.

In that rant from which the quote above is extracted, Trump claims he doesn’t even need loans because he’s got so much cash, more cash than you know. He’s no more broken than he was in 2015. It’s just impossible to ignore, now.

Is it obvious the MSM keeps finding a way to do so?

So why is he begging for dollars? 💸 Does anyone actually imagine Trump raised enough money this week to pay for even this trial? And as I keep saying, this is gonna be the cheap one. Jury trials mean weeks of voir dire (keep that meter running, Billy!), jury consultants (you don’t do a trial that important without them), and all that time with the meter running waiting for them to come back. It just gets really expensive, and the state never runs out of money.

But Trump will.