Trump's Rant

Trump felt the need to call the results of any further vote counting illegitimate. Indeed, the reason these votes are not yet counted is that Republican officials made sure they would not be counted until election day. Such nonsense was regularly pulled in the South during segregation from Reconstruction to the Voting Rights Act, so it is certainly not a new look for reactionaries. Then America started looking. In much of America, the bad old days never left and we call such sentiments nationalism this year. 

Trump is forgetting the lesson of Flight 93. It never got to DC. The passengers were not going to let another airplane be used as a terror weapon. From then on, anyone trying to execute a terrorist act was taken down by the passengers. Donald Trump is making noises like he is Vladimir Putin, but he forgets how we handled Richard Reid and Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. If he follows through on any of his ranting, we will do the same thing to him.

Trump thinks that the Supreme Court will help him. They won't and neither will the military. If mobs even tried to disrupt further vote counting, neither the volunteers nor the local police would allow it. The rule of law wins out in America. Push will not come to shove.

The reality is that the Supreme Court has Trump v. Vance II in front of it. So far, they have not responded to his petition to quash the subpoena that will bring the official copies of his financial records to the authorities. They likely did not want to interfere with the election. 

The election is over. The reality is that Allen Weiselberg gave authorities all of the information they needed to indict Trump, but they needed the official copies. They will soon get them. Trump may well be in custody before the vote count is over.

His creditors are also likely to lose patience once the official documents are delivered. They may decide to get their money before New York State and the Southern District of New York start seizing Trump's assets. Trump is lucky that they probably cannot deny him his pension if he goes quietly. 

Donald finds a way to seize defeat out of the jaws of victory - every time. If I were Melania, I would not count on that money. With Donald, you never know. He might already have an accurate read of the tea leaves and has a deal worked out to avoid jail and he is pulling one last bluff. That would be very entertaining.

If his supporters knew the reality of his past, he would not have been their nominee.

The question is why Mike Pence is going along with this idiot. Is he that stupid or just a moral coward. Either way, his career is also over. The extent to which he is in on the activities of Lev, Igor and Rudi is the extent to which he may be in the next cell.

Hold on tight.