CounterPunch Exclusives

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The Commander-in-Thief

The idea that Donald Trump would knock over the justice and treasury departments for $1.776 billion, and then, back at his Mar-a-Lago hideout, split the loot with the January 6th Hole in the Capitol Wall Gang is wishful thinking; Trump has only ever thought of himself as the sole victim of the Biden administration’s injustices.

All those patriotic defecators on Nancy Pelosi’s desk were never anything more than MAGA poster children, to make the point that Trump is more Robin Hood than Willy Sutton—that he robbed his own government as if operating on behalf of the Make-a-Wish Foundation.

Note that in the original lawsuit (Trump v. Trump), there is no mention of the holy warriors who marched to the sounds of grievance clichés on January 6th—just a lot of hooey about how the leak of Donald Trump’s tax returns over fifteen years caused him $10 billion in damages while in this same period his normal income tax payment was in the range of $750 a year (that’s seven hundred and fifty dollars and no cents).

Had that heist gone as planned (Donny’s Eleven?), Trump would have awarded Trump $10 billion in damages for all the pain and suffering he has had to endure for being outed in the New York Times as a pretender whose Boardwalk Empire was little more than a studio green screen.

Instead, Trump’s lawyers, as always, made a hash of the lawsuit filing—missing that the statute of limitations had run on his claims and that, well, there was something unseemly about an American president robbing his own bank for ten big ones.

Hence, the rushed, overnight “settlement” (Trump paying Trump........

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