"Groundhog Day" with Trump commanding attention

We can't get over him

It is 5 a.m. on Saturday and what is the lead news article? Well guess what? There's a thumbnail photo of you-know-who next to a link that references rape. This is on a prime news site. The photo shows Donald Trump wearing one of his red caps with his theme on it. 

We're into about the eighth year of an obsession and preoccupation with this person. I awake again to check the news and there he is again. Just like in "Groundhog Day," the man and his deviant nature are put forward as if we must take him seriously. Logic demanded long ago that he be marginalized, even if our legal system could not actually "nail" him with convictions. 

The prospect of convictions hovers out there continuously. A whole cottage industry in the media dishes out all the mountains of developments. The molasses-like nature of our legal system, at least with white-collar, is laid so painfully bare. When a common Joe is suspected of something minor by the police, the action is oh so swift. Swift, unpleasant and not courteous. If you get a "ticket" the consequences are unyielding and fixed in stone, pretty much. 

Trump is the epitome of the white collar wrongdoers, a pathological soul who shows us daily what a team of suitcoat-wearing attorneys can accomplish at this level. We should not be surprised. The wealthy and connected have their advantages. We've always known this, but it is now hung out to dry so badly. 

I would suggest it's ditto with T. Denny Sanford of South Dakota. So Jason Ravnsborg decided there were no prosecutable offenses. Didn't Mr. Ravnsborg end up with his own dirty laundry? He's no longer the AG. Maybe Ravnsborg thought he could win some favors by declining to prosecute. Didn't Ravnsborg say he thought he "hit a deer?" Technically it was the dispatcher who planted the thought that Ravnsborg hit a deer. And then the media ran with that. So eager to give the benefit of the doubt to a high-standing person. It's the nature of our society. 

I have a friend who got a seat belt ticket when she was just "crawling" from one parking lot to another downtown. Probably humiliated by a police car with flashing lights too. Such is the lot of the common people. Get a traffic ticket that you might as well pay if you can figure out how to pay it. At least we no longer have such a thing as the "Morris Police Department." We should all feel relieved. 

White collar crime? Adjudicated in such a vastly different way on behalf of the wealthy and powerful. Attorneys who slice and dice with the English language, obfuscate, obstruct and appeal. Ad nauseam. 

So this morning we are supposed to pay attention to this slithering piece of excrement named Donald Trump. Am I going to be subjected to this for the rest of my life? Waking up in the morning to read of things like civil judgments where Trump is found responsible for a sexual assault. His suitcoat-wearing attorneys are at it again. This is the epitome. We soak it in like we're still supposed to take this defendant seriously. We are unable to move on. The media realizes it has a gold mine with it. Is that the problem? But it has been seven or eight years now. He was a celebrity even before that. 

Here's the big top headline I woke up to this morning: "Trump fights to keep the word 'rape' in E. Jean Carroll's remaining defamation case." What joy on this Memorial Day weekend 2023, to re-visit this sordid matter. 

Let's be clear: E. Jean Carroll won her case, even if the jury could not be certain actual "rape" happened. The whole case persists because of new stuff Trump said in the "CNN Town Hall," that platform for Kaitlin Collins to elevate herself. That's what it was really all about. Americans could have chosen not to watch it. Of course we consume media most often to avoid boredom, right? The case is titillating. 

The media argues the case is newsworthy because Trump was president of the U.S. So why the hell did we elect him? It would not have happened without the evangelical Christians. The finger is pointed squarely there. People like me are now struggling with how to reconcile this with our inner personal desire to remain Christians. It is very difficult for yours truly. I go to church because I think there's still hope. But it is getting more difficult. 

If only this man named Trump could get swept from the public stage. Instead his legal machinations over totally disgusting and sordid affairs are "in our face" daily, literally daily. 

What hath God wrought? Well I don't know. It is getting harder to love God and Jesus. Jesus never needed a team of suitcoat-wearing attorneys, did he.

  

Addendum: I imagine all the local Apostolics would vote for Trump again. Good Shepherd Church members too. Good Shepherd people fled their ELCA churches because of a "liberal" trend in the ELCA. The people I cite here would have what kind of take on Trump? Well you know, the man is "sinful" and God created us with sin. One politician said "there has only been one perfect human being," to deflect comments on wrongdoing. My response is that we ought not celebrate sin or want to bathe in it. Then again, I suppose all men would like to have sex with a favorite porn star, just like Trump.

  

- Brian Williams - morris mn minnesota - bwilly73@yahoo.com