So my takeaway from all this thus far is the this is yet another court case where the outcome conveniently works out for both sides.
The right wing gets its usual "nope, doesn't count, Teflon Don wins again, innocent as the day he was born"
Everyone else gets the deliberately worded headline that he had to pay $5 million in damages for SOMETHING, therefore he MUST be in the wrong, even if it was determined by a jury with likely very little evidence about an incident they are to believe happened over thirty years ago.
This wasn't a political hit, this was a political reload.
For example, watching the news, one point they seemed to dwell on was the alleged photo of the accuser. The story goes that Trump kept insisting that it was a picture of Marla, never mind the claim that he did not know or recognize Carroll in the first place. Remember this for later. I absolutely see the whole uniparty media bringing this up in campaign ads as an attack on Trump's mental acuity, poor guy's such a mess he thinks a woman he sexually abused was his own ex-wife! UNFIT FOR OFFICE, UNFIT FOR AMERICA!
So we'll have that, on top of the smarmy Billy Bush "locker room talks" clip that got dredged back up to be weaponized against him again, on top of the OTHER trial we still have to get to with Stormy Daniels (I already almost forgot about that), on top of two impeachments, on top of questioning election integrity now being thoughtcrime with offenders becoming unpersoned as Election Deniers, and we're still in the first half of the year. If this battle got any more uphill it would be a vertical wall. Maybe it already is, I dunno.
There is no tldr, I just wanted to vent about a few things I noticed yesterday. This is why I normally keep my political thoughts to myself.
So my takeaway from all this thus far is the this is yet another court case where the outcome conveniently works out for both sides.
The right wing gets its usual "nope, doesn't count, Teflon Don wins again, innocent as the day he was born"
Everyone else gets the deliberately worded headline that he had to pay $5 million in damages for SOMETHING, therefore he MUST be in the wrong, even if it was determined by a jury with likely very little evidence about an incident they are to believe happened over thirty years ago.
This wasn't a political hit, this was a political reload.
For example, watching the news, one point they seemed to dwell on was the alleged photo of the accuser. The story goes that Trump kept insisting that it was a picture of Marla, never mind the claim that he did not know or recognize Carroll in the first place. Remember this for later. I absolutely see the whole uniparty media bringing this up in campaign ads as an attack on Trump's mental acuity, poor guy's such a mess he thinks a woman he sexually abused was his own ex-wife! UNFIT FOR OFFICE, UNFIT FOR AMERICA!
So we'll have that, on top of the smarmy Billy Bush "locker room talks" clip that got dredged back up to be weaponized against him again, on top of the OTHER trial we still have to get to with Stormy Daniels (I already almost forgot about that), on top of two impeachments, on top of questioning election integrity now being thoughtcrime with offenders becoming unpersoned as Election Deniers, and we're still in the first half of the year. If this battle got any more uphill it would be a vertical wall. Maybe it already is, I dunno.
There is no tldr, I just wanted to vent about a few things I noticed yesterday. This is why I normally keep my political thoughts to myself.