Let’s pretend for a moment that you are a bully, and have been a bully for over half a century, and you have mostly gotten away with it because you could hire the meanest lawyers to attack and destroy all that oppose you.
Let’s pretend for a moment that you know you can get away with anything because if you’re a celebrity they let you do it – whatever “it” is.
Let’s pretend for a moment that you lose, once again, something that you want to win, but because you’re a bully and because you’re a celebrity you think you can get away with it like you always did.
Let’s pretend for a moment that this time, you can’t. You can’t bully your way out of it. You can’t get away with it just because you’re a celebrity.
Let’s pretend for a moment that you try something monumentally stupid, like forcefully overthrowing an election, thinking that you will get your way because, well, you always do.
And you don’t. You don’t get your way.
What do you do? You don’t know what to do. This is where you normally declare bankruptcy, steal as much as you can, walk away, and let others have their lives destroyed as you go on to the next corrupt thing.
But you can’t.
Let’s pretend for a moment that you have spent decades deeply entrenched in a life of crime – from money laundering for foreign oligarchs, or bank fraud, to tax evasion, to stealing from you own charities, to rigging elections, to……
And, let’s pretend for a moment that you, with an entire lifetime of corruption to hide, decide to make a run to be the most famous person on the planet.
And, let’s pretend as you do this you do everything you can do to insult and attack those institutions whose profession is to find things out – like the U.S Intelligence Services and the U.S. and World Media.
And, let’s pretend for a moment that you are caught, over and over and over again, but because you held such a powerful political office, and because you had a voting base that thought you were a god of some sort, you thought you would get away with it forever.
But, you were wrong.
Oops. A lifetime finally catches up with you. And, you know what? A lot of the people that you terrified into supporting you actually never liked you - they just used you, or couldn’t say and do what they wanted to to you, or were just waiting for you to finally go away.
And now, you have gone away. And you are going to face the consequences of decades of greed, corruption, cruelty, and stupidity, because that is a that you are – a summary of greed, corruption, cruelty, and stupidity.
Welcome to the rest of your life, Mr. ex-President.
