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John Bolton, Enemy of the State

(The state, it is Trump.)

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There is an exchange in the Jim Carrey movie Liar, Liar that goes like this:

Lawyer: "I object!"

Judge: "On what basis?"

Lawyer: "Because it's devastating to my case!"
This is overruled with an eyeroll because in the fantasy world of the movie it's the sort of thing you have to be under the effects of a magical curse to blurt that out like it's an actual argument.

In real life, though, that's where we are with Donald Trump.
And why not? Him bankrupting businesses after living large on investor $$$ is put forward as a sound business decision. He got the money, didn't he? His crooked tax accounting is excused because "if you could pay less, wouldn't you?"
Crime after crime, sin after sin, Donald Trump is excused and exonerated in the eyes of his cult (and too often, the mild moderate middle) because if he got away with it, it can't have been that bad.
He admitted to being a serial sexual assaulter? Sure, that's what we heard. But to the ears of the wise, he said it was consensual: "When you're famous, they *let* you do it."

Nobody stopped him.

So it was okay.
Trump is actively withholding evidence from the trial, in living color and in realtime. Not even making a secret of it.

Why?

"It's devastating to my case!"
When it happens, it's defense enough to point out how it's good for him and thus makes sense for him to try.

After it happens, it's defense enough to say it happened.

There's never a moment when it's appropriate to stop him, and then it's our fault for not stopping him.
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