What does the future hold for Donald Trump? - threadbans in OP

No.. and the main reason for that would be Trump and his big mouth ,as it nearly always is - the old saying of "only opens his mouth to change feet" seems to be a perfect fit for the guy.

Karl Rove was on TV last week and said that the best advice for Trump would be to "stop talking and leave it to his lawyers" , which of course he has not done.

Any defense of "Donald Trump didn't know" falls apart instantly because Trump has told us all that he knows about everything.

He has repeatedly said that the stuff is "his" and they they "took it from him" etc.

And aside from that there have been reports that some of the documents have Trumps hand-writing on them.

It's willful at this stage.

The GOP are openly trying to subvert democracy and threaten violence on their opponents on a daily basis. They have no interest in Justice or fairness , they only want victory.

Democrats are guilty of naivety and delusions about how things work. They have focused on the wrong things in terms of the big picture and the long game repeatedly. They still believe that Washington is where the most influence can occur, the GOP have long recognised that in the US , this is not the case.

There is a reason that schools boards have become the battlegrounds for the GOP recently - They see it as a way to create/control their future voters , just like they have focused on State/County level offices for years to facilitate the control of the electoral process.

The Democrats have stood by and watched while this is happening.

The rules of democracy are being removed from the bottom up by the GOP and the Democrats have allowed it to happen.

Oh absolutely..

The Democrats are naive idealists peppered with a few corporatist shills.

The GOP are fast becoming a Christian Nationalist party peppered with a few proto-fascists who want to install their version of (what would be anything but) benign dictatorship.

He is spiraling pretty fast in recent days.

He's absolutely working on firing up the morons to take to the streets if charges are brought forward.

He doesn't care about what that might mean for them or the country as a whole, he just sees it as a way to save himself.

He will burn the whole place down trying to save himself and there are far too many idiots around that will cheer him on while he does it.

This bears absolutely no resemblance to "Watergate" whatsoever.

So far what we have is a comment from Zuckerberg that said "the FBI came to us" , to which the FBI responded , "we go the the Social media companies all the time about possible mis-information". So we still don't know if that means anything at all in the grand scheme of things.

Then we have unsubstantiated reports that an FBI agent resigned or was fired for something to do with their handling of the Hunter Biden laptop while also managing to shoe-horn in a whinge about some Social media posts that weren't nice to Republicans (they managed to drag in Peter Stzrok and Lisa Page into that segue).

This might be something or it might not.

For a start we still don't know if the Laptop has anything actually legally actionable on it.

We know that Hunter Biden is currently trying to make a deal regarding Tax issues , but so far nothing tangible has come out about the alleged contents of the laptop.

So the FBI guy might be guilty of suppressing damaging information that wasn't true or that may not lead to any kind of prosecution.

BTW - Nice use of a story from a week ago to deflect from the current conversation about Trumps latest public tantrum.