by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist
This is the day that elderly patriarch of the Trump family will waddle into a Manhattan courtroom and defend his long-established family business practices in a civil fraud trial. Donald Trump, Senior, will have an opportunity to try to turn around the legal mess that his sons, Don Junior and Eric left the family in after three days of spreading low-grade fertilizer in the same courtroom last week. Both "boys" tried to blame long-standing fraudulent business practices on the family's accountants rather than accept any of the responsibility themselves. Eric Trump, in particular, was hammered so hard by the prosecution with emails that contradicted much of his sworn testimony, that one national commentator referred to him as "a bit of a doofus."
One particularly funny national news headline on the internet stated that the "Trump boys" were being tried as "adults." Don Junior is forty-five and Eric is thirty-nine. Later this week their sister, Ivanka (age 42), who unlike her brothers Junior and Eric, and her father, is not a defendant in the case, will nevertheless be called to testify. Ivanka, the epitome of a working mom (snark intended), is reportedly distraught because she will have to leave her children during a "school week."
Even though the trial is New York is just "civil" in nature, it does seem to have Donald Trump's full attention in ways that the three criminal proceedings against him do not. The civil trial in Manhattan is a direct shot across the bow of the image of himself that Trump has spent decades creating and refining, that of the all powerful billionaire who rides in limousines and private jumbo jets, the bellicose genius who speaks for the common man without actually having to touch or interact with the common man. Trump could face fines of up to a quarter of a billion dollars as the result of his fraudulent business practices, he could lose control of some of his vanity properties - such as Trump Tower, and he could even lose the ability to conduct business in the state of New York, the place where he accumulated much of the fortune that he claims to possess.
Today Donald Trump will testify at a trial which could go a long way toward emptying his pockets and deflating his ego - and he is unlikely to go quietly into that dark night of social ignominy. Nothing is as important to Donald Trump as being Donald Trump.
Today Trump's narcissism will be unleashed and his ego will rush forth in full battle-rattle.
It should be fun.
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