In this update: Trumpās desperation/madness, a violent verbal stew and a blast from the pastā¦
Donald Trump and his lawyers say heās having a hard time scraping together the $454 million dollars he was ordered to pay after he lost the civil fraud case in New York. (Or $464 or $600-ish million dollars, depending on how you count it.)
Poor guy.
Never mind that in a deposition last year, Trump said he had way more than $400 million cash on hand.
For some odd reason, no one wants to lend a guy with a history of lying about property values (and everything else) a half-a-billion dollars.
Itās becoming more apparent that Trumpās current campaign for president is a do-or-die effort to head off painful legal penalties, settlements and even incarceration.
Which leads to his latest statement about a āblood bathā if he doesnāt win the presidency.
Sure, he may have been talking ā in his usual stream-of-consciousness rage-spew ā about tariffs, but the violence and desperation in everything he says on the campaign trail is growing even more threatening.
Meanwhile, Trump seems determined to bring back a āgrave intelligence threatā as an adviser ā Paul Manafort, you know, the guy who organized anti-Nato protests in Ukraine that led to attacks on U.S. Marines.
Sounds like heās got all the right qualifications to serve in the next Trump administration.
In case you missed my earlier post with some rough audio and early animation, you can find it here . . .
I always say that these cartoons are made possible by you, which is true.
But one other thing your ongoing support does: it keeps someone like me around, a guy who remembers weird and horrible facts like the time Paul Manafort was paid to prop up a thug in Ukraine and was complicit in attacks on U.S. Marines.
What can I say, Iāve got a knack for holding grudges for that sort of thing!
Glad youāre here,
-Mark
Trump lives his life at a full run... because if he slows down even a little bit... his enemies will catch up with him. If they catch up with him... there won't be much more than a greasy spot left. Finally... after all these years... consequences!!!