The Man With Limp Gonads Gets His Comeuppance; More Is Coming
When I think of the trump verdict, I think of a limp gonad, I think of the insanity of tossing pearls before swine and I think of trump, not as a simple misogynist but as a sexual predator.
So many thoughts have raced through my mind since trump was found guilty of sexual assault and defamation but the one sign that troubled me the most was the way that Fox News treated the moment. The lede story on the digital Fox News read, “A federal jury in New York City reached a decision Tuesday in the civil trial of advice columnist E. Jean Carroll vs. former President Donald Trump.”
There was no mention of the nature of the verdict in a story that was read by millions of right wing Republicans who continue to support trump.
Picking out the weirdest of trump statements is like declaring a favorite child; they are all favorites. But here it is (drum roll).
Robbie Kaplan, Carroll’s lawyer, was questioning trump about his comments heard on the “Access Hollywood” tape regarding sexually assaulting women when he says “when you’re a star, they let you do it.”
“Historically, that’s true, with stars,” Trump testified.
“True that they can grab women by the p — -y?” Kaplan asked.
“Well, that’s what — if you look over the last million years, I guess that’s been largely true. Not always, but largely true,” Trump replied. He paused and then, as he does, kept going. “Unfortunately or fortunately.”
Fortunately sound like good fortune, as in getting lucky, as in sexual assault.
On Truth Social, trump bloviated after the verdict, “I have absolutely no idea who this woman is. This verdict is a disgrace — a continuation of the greatest witch hunt of all time!”
It harkens back to another despicable moment in time on Jan. 26, 1988 when another commander in chief, President Bill Clinton, declared in his defense over charges that he had sex with Monica Lewinsky, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman.”
To believe that trump had “absolutely no idea who this woman is” defies reality, even for trump, who either is a serial liar or is suffering from dementia. The answer would be “both.”
And all I can say to those Republican members of Congress who still defend trump is that you are living in a fantasyland coccoon.
“That jury’s a joke. The whole case is a joke,” said Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., who in one fell swoop denigrated the jury system, one of the bedrocks of American democracy. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., also sneered at the verdict.
“I think you could convict Donald Trump of kidnapping Lindbergh’s baby… I question the whole process,” said Graham. Maybe we need to reopen the Lindbergh kidnapping case because I never really believed that Bruno Hauptmann was guilty. Maybe trump did it.
Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., was nothing short of jaw dropping with his reaction after the verdict, “It makes me want to vote for him twice.” Tuberville should know that voting twice is a violation of the election laws.
“They’re going to do anything they can to keep him from winning. It ain’t gonna work, people are gonna see through the lies, a New York jury, he had no chance,” said Tuberville, a 1,000 percent trumper whose interests include NASCAR, golf, football, hunting and fishing, America’s military. He also enjoys country and western music. Enough said.
Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., said, in so many words, that trump and not E. Jean Carroll is the victim.
“I think we’ve seen President Trump under attack since before he became president,” Hagerty said, with a face that he fought to keep straight as an arrow. “This has been going on for years. He’s been amazing in his ability to weather these sorts of attacks and the American public has been amazing in their support through it.”
Hagerty went on to further discredit the American legal system when he said the verdict was “yet another act in the ongoing legal circus in Manhattan to take down Donald Trump.” Hagerty was right to use trump and circus in the same breath.
Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., easily mistaken for Cosmo Kramer, had a pithy observation when he said “I’d rather have a president that isn’t found liable for battery but it’s not a disqualifier.” So, what exactly is a disqualifier, Sen. Cramer. In a discussion about abortion, Cramer once said of U.S. society, “We have normalized perversion and perverted God’s natural law.” I say people like Cramer have normalized perversion in remaining behind trump.
In 2017, Cramer showed his own sexism when he mocked House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and other female Democratic lawmakers who wore white in protest at trump’s first address to a joint session of Congress.
“It is a syndrome,” said Cramer. “There is no question, there is a disease associated with the notion that a bunch of women would wear bad-looking white pantsuits in solidarity with Hillary Clinton to celebrate her loss. You cannot get that weird.”
Another shining moment in the brilliant lawmaker’s misogynistic history came in 2018 when he called both Anita Hill’s sexual harassment allegation against Clarence Thomas and Christine Blasey Ford’s sexual assault allegation against Brett Kavanaugh “absurd.” Ford’s allegation was “even more absurd” than Hill’s because the sexual assault that Ford described “never went anywhere” and because both Kavanaugh and Ford were intoxicated teenagers, Cramer said.
Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., the Senate’s second-ranking Republican, had a strange read on the jury finding that trump committed sexual assault.
“People are gonna have to decide whether they want to deal with all the drama,” Thune said. Isn’t sexual assault more than just “drama?”
Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, another shining star in the Republican slimoverse, showed his utter ignorance about the dynamics of sexual assaults.
“Based on the sheer timing of the allegations — that the alleged offense occurred in the mid-1990s and Ms. Carroll did not sue until 2019–2022, far beyond the normal statute of limitations for the underlying offense, and in the middle of a spate of other legal charges against Trump for other ancient allegations — this seems like just another part of the establishment’s anaphylactic response against its chief political allergen: Donald Trump,” Ramaswamy said.
The verdict tested the creativity and chutzpah of the right wing media. MAGA cable channel Newsmax was brilliantly found a way to declare that a finding of sexual assault and not rape was actually a victory for trump.
“There is no legal rape claim, of course,” anchor Katrina Szish declared. “Although…I think we’re going to hear that four-letter word thrown around a lot, whatever the verdict is.”
Right-wing radio host Sid Rosenberg added his slurry of commentary and said that trump “did not want to be labeled a rapist, he is not a rapist, they came back with no, so trust me when I tell you this was a major win for Donald Trump today.” Trust me? I don’t think so.
Dick Morris, once a close advisor to President Clinton, and now a pundit with no morals, said trump should double down and increase his attacks against Carroll.
“Look, all of these cases boiled down to Donald Trump versus the accuser. And in this case, it’s a zero-sum game. And what Trump needs to do is to defame her a little bit more,” Morris said. “He needs to go after and say this happened so long ago, she waited to bring the charges, she did — she only talked about it after she got a $70,000 book advance.”
All of this brings me back to trump’s favorite fish story to explain all of his troubles, his constant claims of being a perpetual victim of “witch hunts.” One report noted that as of 2019, since becoming president, trump tweeted the words “witch hunt” a total of 294 times, for sundry subjects, like the Russia investigation, the Ukraine scandal, and of course, all of the sexual claims.
Trump doesn’t know what real witch hunts are and there have been many in U.S. history, since the short-lived Salem Witch Trials from 1692 to 1693.
Anti-German sentiment raged during and after World War I as gangs tore down street signs with German names, attacked businesses that were owned by people with German-sounding names or sold German-made goods and public officials with German names were forced to resign.
The Palmer Raids, from November 1919 to January 1920, was a time when a wave of hysteria swept over the United States in the aftermath of World War I. Speaking against capitalism and speaking for workers’ rights was seen as anti-American and then-Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer used the Department of Justice to conduct raids against those suspected of spreading anti-capitalist views. Raids were staged at all hours as men were sometimes were dragged out of their beds in the middle of the night, never to return home to their wives or families.
After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese Americans were rounded up and held in internment camps. Along the Pacific coast, many viewed Japanese-Americans as a larger threat to the American way of life because of the bombing at Pearl Harbor. Anyone of Japanese, German, or Italian descent who had not become an American citizen before Dec. 7, 1941, could be arrested, imprisoned, and/or deported. Roughly 120,000 people of Japanese descent were evicted from their homes and businesses along the west coast.
In the years following the Second World War, the most important quality for an American was to demonstrate loyalty. Any person or group that spoke out against the U.S. government or capitalism was labeled a communist, fascist, or anarchist in the court of public opinion. This paved the way for the reign of terror led by Sen. Joseph McCarthy, D-Wis., chair of the House Un-American Activities Committee. The committee held hearings questioning the loyalty of screenwriters, actors, directors, and producers and individuals. Those who were questioned by the House Un-American Activities Committee and refused to name communists, were blacklisted.
McCarthy-era witch hunts also targeted gay men and women, the so-called Lavender Scare. Individuals who were caught having sex with members of their same gender could be arrested and imprisoned. Many people viewed gay men and women as degenerates, sexual perverts, and pedophiles as homosexual males became a target for McCarthy-era fervor. The belief was that homosexuals were dangerous because they were more susceptible to blackmail by communist supporters.
Those, trump, are real witch hunts.