🎶 In The Year 2025/If Trump Is Still Alive 🎶

It raises the question - if Trump loses, does he disappear or attempt at running in 2028 (even if he doesn’t do it) to preserve a lock on the party https://t.co/Vx5YDmltIJ

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) February 3, 2024

By 2025:

A)  He’ll be broke and in jail for the rest of his natural life.

B) He’ll be drooling into his oatmeal, insisting Nikki Haley failed to call for the National Guard, that he beat Obama, and the economy is only strong because it knows Trump is secretly POTUS.

C) All of the above. After all, who had “Trump becomes completely delusional in public and even Nikki Haley notices” on their bingo card? Or even that E. Jean Carroll would milct Trump for $90 million? Before NY gets to him?  See above: Trump will be broke by summer. Effectively bankrupt. He exists on credit and grifting. The grift is failing, the credit is ending. Trump exists on mortgages. Call those notes due because his ability to pay becomes questionable, he’s toast.

Long before 2028.

Meanwhile, this the quality of representation Trump is getting outside the courthouse:

This MAGAt thinks that Aileen Cannon should stop slow-walking the Trump stolen documents case so Trump gets his chance to challenge the claim that nuclear documents shouldn't be stored in a social club bathroom. https://t.co/hGDU1AtH2I

— emptywheel (@emptywheel) February 3, 2024

Actually, reading the latest DOJ filing in that case, that reflects the quality of representation in the courtroom, too:

Jack Smith just 'put to bed' Trump's latest defense in new court filing: legal expert https://t.co/EiOyYBHYna

— Raw Story (@RawStory) February 3, 2024

The filing laid out the measures Smith's team say they took to go through all the records and couldn't find evidence that Trump held a top level security clearance after he left office for Florida. 

Trump’s attorneys maintain that the 45th president kept his security clearance from the Department of Energy (DOE, which handles the country's nuclear arsenal) and that it fortifies his argument that he was acting in "non-criminal states of mind relating to possession of classified materials" at Mar-a-Lago. 

But Smith's team countered that with a memorandum from the assistant general counsel in Department of Energy, which stated that Trump's clearance only reached "Q" status which would be part of his “duties” as president, but that “Trump’s clearance had terminated upon the end of his presidency.” 

“But even if Trump’s Q clearance had remained active, that fact would not give him the right to take any documents containing information subject to the clearance to his home and store it in his basement or anywhere else at Mar-a-Lago,” prosecutors wrote.