Thought For Arraign-y Day

A Hard Arraign's A-Gonna Fall

April 4, 2023

“I have the right to take stuff. I have the right to look at stuff.”
Donald Trump, March 27, 2023
to Sean Hannity, on illegally taking and hiding
classified documents he in fact was not permitted to possess.

“We’ll see about that, asshole.”
Ed Venture, April 4, 2023
to no one in particular

Today is the day we wondered if we would actually ever see. Donald Trump must present himself to the authorities to. By all reports, the global menace will arrive at the downtown Manhattan courthouse shortly after 2:00 PM, Eastern. I’ll believe that when I see it.

Trump lands in New York to triumphantly face his first of many indictments.

What a Dick

One imagines that this is one of – if not the – worst days of his miserable, insulting life. His lawyer, Michael Cohen did jail time for doing Trump’s bidding. His multi-generational CFO Allen Weisselberg is current serving time for his time working for and with Trump. Trump’s business – the eponymous Trump Organization – was found to have broken the law. Even Trump’s campaign manager Paul Manafort – who represented numerous brutal authoritarians across the globe and was up to his eyeballs in debt to a Russian oligarch before offering to work for Trump for free – also ended up in jail for just a few of the many crimes he committed.

Only Trump himself has managed to evade responsibility. Today will be the first of many legal travails that could not be visited upon anyone more deserving. No doubt Trump will attempt to put on a brave, let's call it, face.

I wish him hell. 

Trump, clinging to stuff he claims is his by fiat and/or just thinking it,

while being taken into custody

This has been your Paying Attention™ Thought For Arraign-y Day.