Trump's Humiliation Deepens: In Court, He Can't Hide From His Tabloid Roots

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Trump’s Humiliation Deepens: In Court, He Can’t Hide From His Tabloid Roots
by Amanda Marcotte | April 24, 2024 - 6:50am

— from Salon

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While the outcome of the trial remains weeks away, the process of being a criminal defendant has already stripped Trump of most of the trappings he uses to prop up his delusions of nobility. He has to sit still and do what he's told, which he whines about ad nauseam when outside of court. He keeps reportedly falling asleep and believable rumors suggest that his personal odor is difficult to bear.

On Monday, the humiliations continued to pile on Trump with opening arguments and the first witness, former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker. Even in this truncated day of court, the picture painted of Trump was not the regal leader of his fantasies, but who he actually is: A sleazy poseur who belongs to the world of trashy tabloids and scheming hucksters. The whole thing is a harsh reminder, to his face, that Trump is more suited to wallowing in the gutter than sitting on a throne.

The prosecutor, Matthew Colangelo, did not hold back from the salacious details in describing the alleged crimes that led to Trump sitting at the defendant's table: the extramarital sex, the hush money payments, the alleged out-of-wedlock child, the conspiracy with the National Enquirer to pay women off in a practice with the tawdry name "catch-and-kill." He spoke of Trump as such a miscreant that he required a full-time "fixer" to "take care of problems." He read aloud the various National Enquirer headlines crafted to help Trump, a reminder that Trump's natural home is in the most prurient gossip rags. And, of course, Colangelo spoke of Trump's crude bragging on the infamous "Access Hollywood" tape about how he likes to sexually assault women.

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Despite Trump trying to tell reporters this trial is going "very well," reports from inside the courtroom are that he was seething. No surprise there. Prior to this, Trump spent all day, every day inside a bubble, surrounded by flatterers and sycophants, always ready to tell him that he's a mighty man who definitely doesn't weigh an ounce over 215 and wins every golf game with ease. Now he's spending his days in a dingy courtroom, staying silent while other people talk about his real self: A pathetic figure who pressures reluctant women into sex, and then runs to his seedy friends and barrel-scraping employees to bail him out of trouble. If there was a hell, Trump's punishment would be to look into a mirror for all of eternity. Having to hear people tell the truth about him for hours a day is as close as we're going to get on the mortal plane.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. David Pecker confesses on the stand to conspiring with Trump against Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election.

Link to tweet

[SWBTATTReg]

2. I hope that Hillary sues the NE for every dime they have. All of it. They don't deserve to be a working entity

anymore. They deliberately did this to hurt her.

[kimbutgar]

5. Unfortunately I think the statue of limitations 7 years has passed on her suing

But I hope I’m wrong !

Looking at those covers is appalling. I cancelled and stopped buying the National enquirer after seeing those covers.

[SWBTATTReg]

6. You're probably right, but still, they did wrong by her, and the fact does remain that it had to come out in a court

case (the truth) finally about the fake NE articles. This was criminal, this was intentional harm done to her.

[LudwigPastorius]

3. Trump's humiliation?

You can’t shame a shameless man.

[pandr32]

4. That description of what TSF is facing in court...

as opposed to his usual treatment by "flatterers and sycophants" made my morning.
Beautiful!