Mustang
Gold Member
I have to believe that a day of reckoning is coming for Trump. He's been getting away with his financial crimes, sex crimes, business fraud, tax crimes, and his political crimes by lying for so long that he thinks he's invincible as if the past is an inevitable prologue of future events.
His standing in the polls is slumping primarily due to the January 6th committee hearings.
However, history is full of examples of men who were both wealthy and powerful who avoided the accountability that a common man would almost certainly face until the law and witnesses turned the tide and shattered their sense of being beyond the reach of people who could hold them accountable. Harvey Weinstein is a good example of this.
However, as much as I hate to admit it, people do literally and figuratively get away with murder. Having said that, there are murderers like the Golden State Killer (Joseph James DeAngelo), and the BTK Killer (Dennis Rader) who were eventually caught and imprisoned despite the fact that they flew under the radar of authorities for decades.
But men like Trump and women like Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes don't try to fly under the radar. They seek the limelight, and they ride the wave of the positive press as a means of furthering their con game of cheating trusting people. But when the limelight turns into a spotlight, all they have left is a disinformation campaign, despite the evidence to the contrary, to bolster their claims of innocence.
When Trump was president, he not only had the full force of the executive branch to defend him, he was essentially immune from charges being levied against him, and he didn't have to worry about prosecution. Is it any wonder why he tried to stay in power? But he's a private citizen now who apparently clings to his delusions of grandeur.
I think Trump has got a surprise coming. Hopefully, he's smarter than to hire Giuliani as his defense attorney. That goes for Sidney Powell too.