A Trump Supporter Confuses David?

I think I’ve made it clear on a frequent basis what the official viewpoint of I’m So Glad My Suffering Amuses You is on the subject of Donald Trump.

Donald Trump is a lying fuck of a fucking moron who doesn’t know what the fuck he’s doing. 

Also: the prolific use of the word “fuck” and various derivatives thereof is keeping with the editorial policy of I’m So Glad My Suffering Amuses You on all matters relating to Donald Trump.*

*Fuck

Also I have expressed on several occasions my low assessment of Trump supporters.

I do want to acknowledge, I know how they got to the point where they thought Trump was a good idea. There was this whole swatch of America that felt overlooked and screwed over by a changing world that was leaving them behind and no one in any political party was figuring out how to talk to them. Trump talked to them.

I think if you could couple Trump’s bombast and irreverence with true intelligence and sincere human compassion, that person would be perhaps the most powerful leader of all time.  Sadly Trump’s bombast and irreverence comes with pathetic levels of utter stupidity and a complete lack of empathy for anyone outside his own bulbous head. 

Anyway, to Trump supporters, I do truly understand how you got there.  Nonetheless I still think you were bunch of suckers for buying the shit Trump was selling back in 2016. Bu I do understand how you got there.

What I do NOT understand is why you’re still buying the shit Trump is still pushing.  I man, COME ON! Just LISTEN to the man! Look at what he and his cronies are DOING! He’s helping himself and other rich guys to get richer and he’s doing fuck all for you. This is not opinion. This is not speculation. This is FACT!

So yeah, not a love lost for Trump supporters. 

Which brings us to Paula Duncan. 

Paula Duncan was on the jury for the Paul Manafort trial. 

Paula also says she’s a Trump supporter. 

Paula Duncan dropped some knowledge in an interview that the jury would have convicted Paul Manafort on all 18 criminal charges but for one single hold out.  

Duncan said that 11 members of the jury were in agreement that Manafort was guilty on all 18 felony charges but that they could not get the one holdout to change her mind after nearly four days of deliberations. “We didn’t want it to be hung so we tried for an extended period of time to convince her. But in the end she held out and that’s why we have 10 counts that did not get a verdict.  I thought that the public, America, needed to know how close this was and the evidence was overwhelming.”  

Duncan said  she wanted to believe that Manafort was innocent. She noted that even his critics had described him as a brilliant political consultant and that Trump had trusted him with overseeing his campaign.

“I did not want Paul Manafort to be guilty. But he was and no one is above the law. I think we all went in there like we were supposed to and assumed that Mr Manafort was innocent. We did due diligence, we applied the evidence, our notes, the witnesses and we came out with guilty verdicts on the eight counts.”  

I’ll be honest: I really do not know how to process this. 

Paula Duncan professes to be a Trump supporter. The man she supports as president has spoken derisively about the very process she took part in.

The investigation that uncovered Manafort’s crimes and the evidence of his guilt that Ms. Duncan referred to us “overwhelming”?

Trump has dismissed it as a “witch hunt”. 

The man that Paula Duncan determined to be guilty of the crimes he was accused of committing?

Trump has referred to him as a “good man” and a “brave man”. 

The process of doing due diligence and applying evidence that Paula Duncan applied judiciously  to her duties as a jurist?

The man she supports frequently disregards facts and evidence.

The idea that while she not want Paul Manafort to be guilty, Paula Duncan had to concede he was? 

Trump is notorious for not backing down from a position, regardless of  any facts to the contrary of that position. 

Paula Duncan’s view that no one is above the law?

Trump has pardoned several people who were charged, tried, convicted and sentenced within the due process of the justice system.

Paula Duncan’s view that she thought that the public needed to know what really happened?

The man she supports is constantly at odds with those whose job is to inform the public, questioning their ethics and deriding them as the enemy of the people.

So Paula Duncan sounds like an intelligent, thoughtful individual who took her duty as a citizen and a jurist seriously. I highly commend this person.

Paula Duncan is a supporter of Donald Trump? I have no idea what to do with that. 

I’m going to go over there and lie down awhile. The rest of you just talk among yourselves.

And remember to be good to one another.