Too Much and Not Enough

Last week I wrote about “Unchecked: The Untold Story Behind Congress’s Botched Impeachments of Donald Trump,” an expose by Politico’s Rachael Bade and The Washington Post’s Karoun Demirjian about the first impeachment against Donald Trump.  

It confirmed what I suspected back in 2020 that Senate Republicans god damn well knew that the evidence presented against Trump was completely damning and impeachable but still spoke to their constituents that there was nothing impeachable, took deliberate action to aid in Trump's defense and voted to not impeach the motherfucker.

It seemed to me such a revelation should be quite scandalous for those Republicans involved and, I don't know, actionable? There are rules governing the conduct of Senators during an impeachment hearing the Senate Republicans broke them in their subservience to Donald Trump. 

And this story has sunk beneath the waves.

Of course nothing happened with it. Nobody ever seems to pay the price for anything. 

And I guess it's hard to focus attention on the malfeasance of the past when so much shit is happening right now.  

Trump is still fighting back against the document debacle but not always with success. The Supreme Court pushed back on Li'l Donnie's efforts to get the court to tell the Department of Justice to back off. Which must really irk Trump to no end since he bought and paid for 3 of those justices so they owe him, don't they? 

But Trump still paints himself as a victim, that the government documents that were never his were actually his and he can do what he wants? And he wants back what the FBI took?  

And on the matter of Donald Trump stirring up an insurrection to keep him in office, the House of Representatives January 6th committee met last week with some new revelations that Trump and his cronies had plans in place before election day to declare victory no matter what and statements that Trump knew he lost but didn't want to admit because it was embarrassing. And the committee closed out it's work by ordering a subpoena to compel Donald Trump to testify.  

To which Li'l Donnie issued a 14 page letter that is 99.5% regurgitation of his "THE ELECTION WAS STOLEN" lies and the rest is just ostensibly a big ol' "Fuck you!" to the committee and their subpoena.  

Meanwhile, there's the case in New York that Trump's business was up to sketchy shit. Apparently Donald Trump Jr. testified he don't know nothing and he just signs whatever he's told to sign.

Well...   FUCK! 

No wonder we don't have time to deal with the sketchy shit that Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham, Mitch McConnell and the gang were up to running interference in Trump's impeachment trial. 

There should be time! What they did was wrong and needs to be investigated and consequences applied before something else comes along to...

Oh, you gotta be fucking kidding me? 

What is this?   

A co-founder of Truth Social’s media parent company was forced off the board of the firm after he ignored demands by Donald Trump to gift some of his stock to Melania Trump, a whistleblower has told The Washington Post.

Trump pushed for the giveaway to his wife even though he had already been given 90% of the stock in the Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) in exchange for the use of his name and some other “minor involvement,” former company executive Will Wilkerson told the Post.

This incident is potentially a violation of Securities and Exchange regulations.  And apparently this is just one of a series of problems with technical fuck ups, questionable financial representations, and more violations of Securities and Exchange regulations.  

By the way, "questionable financial representations" is at the very heart of the New York case against Donald Trump and his businesses. So the past sketchy shit Trump is being sued for by New York is the same current sketchy shit Trump is reportedly committing right now with this damn Truth Social thing! 

And the rats are deserting the ship.  

A Securities and Exchange Commission filing last month revealed that investors had already backed out of $139 million in commitments of the $1 billion previously promised to the Truth Social media company.  

Truth Social owes about $1.6 million in contractually obligated payments to a major web-hosting operator.  

What? Someone is having trouble getting paid money owed by Donald Trump? I'm just going to cut 'n' paste my reply to this revelation: 

Wow.

What a shock.

I am surprised.

I am bowled over by that surprise.

I might just keel over dead from that surprise.

OK, is my sarcasm too subtle?   

So what we've got here with Trump's Truth Social debacle is yet one more fucking tale of Donald Trump up to sketchy shit that will suck up more air. 

And do nothing to hurt Li'l Donnie and his despicable MAGA movement.  

Every time there is what you and I might think of as a "bad news" story for Li'l Donnie, his fundraising for his political action committee goes UP? Yep, his knuckle dragging MAGA morons cough up more money to help "make American great again" or some shit and here's the thing. Most of the money going to Trump's so called political action committee does not go towards any political action like supporting candidates running for office but to pay Li'l Donnie's legal bills.  

We know these things but nothing happens. 

We know too much.  

And not enough happens as a consequence of what we know.

Do you know despite all the Republican candidates for Congress who are aligned with Donald Trump and his election lies and his questionable activities, Republicans are currently projected to re-take control of the House of Representatives in the mid-term election this year? 

And if the House falls under Republican control, there goes any accountability for those responsible for January 6th. 

We know too much and not enough will be done about it.