• Trump’s lava of lies keep coming—one supporter said, “I can’t say that a word he says is true but I trust him”—either because Trumpers
  1. like his middle-finger personality (30,000 reportedly turned out for Bonnie and Clyde’s funeral) or
  2. are credulous dupes who root for him like Philly fans for their home team.
  Also, “Human are hard-wired to believe what they are told by other humans, who they perceive to be like themselves.” (Katherine Dykstra in NYYBR.) Hence the success of Ponzi schemes and street corner three-card-monte.
  
  
• For one 24 hour period—January 6th to 7th, 2021—Senator McConnell thought that Trump would and should be held accountable for the crimes and violence on that day. “We have a criminal justice system in this country. President Trump is still liable for everything he did while in office.” Then McConnell fell silent for eighteen months about Trump’s culpability.
  
  
• Federal District Court Judge David Carter in a civil suit involving Trump: “Dr. Eastman and President Trump launched a campaign to overturn a democratic election. An action unprecedented in American history….it was a coup in search of a legal theory.”
  
  
• Dick Cheney on Donald Trump: “In our nation’s 246-year history there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our Republic than Donald Trump. He is a coward. A real man wouldn’t lie to his supporters. He lost his election. And he lost big. I know it, he knows it, and deep down, I think most Republicans know it.”
  
  
• Trump’s natural autocratic impulses only hardened when he was not held accountable for his actions a) in the first impeachment trial concerning his “perfect” phone call trying to extort Zelensky into investigating the Bidens (thanks to a smoke machine named Bill Barr) and b) in his second impeachment trial for his role in inspiring the attack by his supporters on the Capitol seeking to stop Vice President Pence’s certification of the 2020 electoral count.
  
  
• Later came the Department of Justice’s raid of his country club estate for possession of classified materials endangering National Security. The question now hovers around the 2022 midterm elections
  
  

Books by former allies nearly uniformly belittle Trump (okay, not counting Jared, at least so far). Appointees such as Esper, Barr, Omarosa, Bolton, Michael Cohen, Fiona Hill, Col.Vindman. Deborah Birx condemned him in their memoirs — also, Mattis, Mulvaney, Tillerson, Mulvaney & Barr are now openly hostile. Most recently, his own ex-counsel, Ty Cobb, called him a “deeply wounded narcissist [who] acted in a criminal manner” and who should be “barred from future office.” His own lawyer. ... Were there any similar tell-alls by those around Obama or Clinton? No. Why not?

George Conway: “Sooner or later if you’re behaving illegally, it catches up to you.”

• HUD won cases against him in 1973 for racist policies excluding Black tenants in his company’s rental housing. In civil cases brought by the NY AG years later, he was personally fined $25 million for fraud against students in Trump“University” and another $25 million for violating the NY Philanthropies Law with his Trump Foundation – leading the AG to conclude that the latter was “little more than a checkbook to serve Mr. Trump’s political and business interests [in a] shocking pattern of illegality.” The incorrigible Trump is again currently being investigated for fraud by the AG and Manhattan DA for raising $250 million from supporters based on false statements.
  
  
• Trump team lost sixty of sixty-one cases arguing the 2020 election was stolen from him. Wrote one judge, “A president is not a king” (Appeals Court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson!). shocking pattern of illegality.” As his former NSA John Bolton has said, “for Donald Trump, obstruction of justice was a way of life.”
  
  
• Spurred a violent attempt to overthrow the U. S. government.
  
  
• His misinformation and incompetence about COVID cost several hundred thousands of lives, according to Dr. Deborah Birx.
  
  
• CREW (Committee for Responsibility in Washington) has identified forty-eight likely crimes he committed as president (“he’s a walking crime scene”).
  
  
• Trump was “Individual–1” in payoffs to porn star Stormy Daniels (he wrote $130,000 in checks for her while in his White House office) that sent his lawyer Michael Cohen to jail.
  
  
• He used his pardon power repeatedly not for mercy but for donors and cronies.
  
  
• Told generals he wanted them to be as loyal to him as Hitler’s generals were.
  
  
• The first and so far only time that Trump was deposed under oath as president, he pleaded the Fifth 440 times; Hillary testified before a House Committee under oath in public for eleven hours on Benghazi…and answered every question.
  
  
• Told 34,000 plus lies or falsehoods—or twenty-two a day by his last year in office, according to the Washington Post fact-checker. That’s a lot, right? Is there another human being in the world who’s lied an average of twenty-two times a day for a year?
  
  
• When asked about possible Hatch Act violations by his White House staff, he said, “And who decides on Hatch Act penalties—me. Do what you want.”
  
  
• When informed that his suggestion to border patrol agents was illegal, Trump told them not to worry because he’d “pardon them.”
  
  
• There is the emolumental scandal of America’s first for-profit presidency. CREW has listed over 3000 conflicts of interests in his term in office, including his middle finger to the Hatch Act prohibition on using government resources for political purposes, as when he commandeered the White House lawn for his RNC Convention speech.
  
  
• His stolen confidential files from the White House are currently being criminally investigated, including ones with nuclear secrets (according to the Washington Post).
  
  
• Ex-US Attorney Geoffrey Berman reports in his new book, Hold the Line, that AG Barr “”put in people to do his bidding by targeting Trump’s enemies [Clinton, Kerry, Craig] and helping Trump’s pals [Flynn, Stone, Manafort]. It was a disgrace.”…in what will likely go down as the greatest scandal in the Department’s history, a multiple of what Mitchell and Kleindienst did.
  
  
• CREW has listed 48 crimes that Trump likely engaged in during his sole term as president.
  
  
• After some 60 women accused him of abusive conduct – one alleging rape – he simply called them “all horrible, horrible liars.”
  
  

• Trump incited and later defended a violent mob that attacked the Capitol which led to five deaths and 139 injuries to Capitol Police.
  
  
• When Bill O’Reilly asked whether Putin was “a killer,” Trump replied, “We got a lot of killers—what, you think our country’s so innocent?”
  
  
• During the George Floyd protests in the summer of 2021, he said “when the looting starts, the shooting starts.” After suggesting the imposition of martial law, he seriously asked Defense Secretary Esper, “well, can you at least shoot them in the legs?”
  
  
• Whenever someone criticizes or questions Trump publicly—like Cassidy Hutchinson before the January Six Committee or the judge who issued the warrant for the FBI search at Mar-a-Lago—they’re inundated with threats of violence by the MAGA Mob.
  
  
• Greg Sargent: “In late August, 2022, Trump shared an article comparing the FBI to the ‘gestapo’ while citing the shootout at Ruby Ridge. That was a key radicalizing event for Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. Worse, Trump propagandists are now using similar martyrdom tropes.”
  
  
• Trump’s silence over nearly six years on hate speech is taken as a permission slip for violence, anti-semitism, and racism.
  
  
• Atlantic Magazine: “The new era of political violence is here. The danger is not a Civil War but individual Americans of deep resentments and delusion” who believe in what they call “our Second Amendment rights.”
  
  

• Six years ago, Lindsey Graham talked about then-Vice President Biden: “If you can’t admire Joe Biden as a person, you’ve got a problem. You need to do some self-evaluation, because what’s not to like?… He’s as good a man as God ever created.”