Today is Monday, July 31, 2o23. Tomorrow marks the beginning of August and the anticipation that District Attorney Fani Willis will charge the three-time loser of a former president with yet another indictment, this time with interfering in the election results in Georgia. There is hope that this new indictment will be handed down very soon. But as anyone else with a sense of decency, you must be wondering how this vile guy’s popularity has not been unduly affected by being involved in – as of now – two indictments. It actually appears that his popularity among his ultraloyal base has even skyrocketed, not descended, since he got slammed with two criminal indictments. How the fuck has this happened? On Monday, a New York Times/Sienna College poll of likely primary voters showed Dumpf crushing Florida Ron De”Satan” by a staggering 37 points. I applaud the crushing of the stupid governor from the Leprosy State, but not by the septuagenarian con man known as Donald Dumpf. The campaign is just tottering all on its own without Dumpf’s interference.

An online article in AFP addresses this anomaly with the title of “For Trump, the more indictments, the more loyal his fans.” So as Dumpf faces more criminal charges coming down the pike, he can still console himself with one encouraging constant: blockbuster polling numbers. The 2024 Republican primary frontrunner has even boasted, “I’m the only person (who) ever got indicted who became more popular.” This boastful comment is just nauseating to the rest of us. Just take the polls: the former president’s lead has risen from 16 to 36 points in the RealClearPolitics average of polls since he was indicted in Manhattan four months ago for falsifying business records.

During that period, he has been found by a jury in a civil trial to have raped a writer in New York and has been charged with a further 40 federal counts over his handling of national security secrets and alleged obstruction of justice.

One strong critic of the Orange Hemorrhoid, who I admire, but would never vote for in a general election, is former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie who has told CNN yesterday, “By the time we get on the debate stage on August 23, the frontrunner will be out on bail in four different jurisdictions – Florida, Washington, Georgia, and New York.”

To understand Dumpf’s lasting appeal among blue-collar Americans, analysts contacted by AFP stated that Dumpf gives a voice to the demographic of multilateral trade agreements, open borders, forever wars, and globalization that left many hardworking Americans without jobs and with little future prospects. “His supporters see Trump as a disrupter that is not beholden to the entrenched elites and gives everyday Americans a shot at a better life,” Michael J. O’Neill said, who is a counsel at the Conservative Landmark Legal Foundation.

For David Greenberg, a journalism and history professor at Rutgers University, said Dumpf and his diehard loyalists have always been able to bond over a “common set of enemies” that has expanded to include the justice system. Greenberg informed AFP that “When Trump is indicted, to them it’s just more proof that their man, their champion, is being targeted by forces they fundamentally distrust.”

But let’s not forget the facts swirling around this much controversial figure of the 21st century: Dumpf left office in 2021 after a scandal-plagued single term in office, which he lost the White House and both chambers of Congress and was impeached twice.

Many aides were convicted of felonies, including his 2016 campaign chairman and deputy campaign chairman, his White House chief strategist and national security adviser, his personal lawyer, and two foreign policy advisers.

There’s more: his company, The Trump Organization, was convicted on multiple charges of tax fraud and its chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, admitted to grand larceny, tax fraud, and falsifying business records.

Trump himself was found by a jury in a civil lawsuit in May to have raped E. Jean Carroll in New York in the 1990s, and he has been accused by more than 20 other women of sexual misconduct.

And we have to mention his two impeachments which were both related to alleged attempts to cheat in the 2020 election – first where he was found to have withheld vital military aid from Ukraine as he demanded it dig up dirt on Biden, and again for inciting an insurrection to prevent his opponent’s eventual victory from being certified.

You would think such a laundry list of vile, contemptible actions conducted by a vile, contemptible man would put him in the doghouse for a majority of Americans, but this being Donald Dumpf, the inconceivable is paramount here.

Some Democrats, even, admire Dumpf, if you can call it that, for controlling the narrative in railing about a “deep state” that is after him and a Justice Department that is conducting “witch hunts” against him. He has so many followers believing this horseshit.

Anyway, Elliot and I are back from visiting “Emily” and her husband “Allan” in Silver Spring, Maryland, this very hot weekend. The humidity was stifling both Friday and Saturday. The heat broke on Sunday and that’s the day we drove to Cherry Hill, New Jersey, to spend the night with “Harold” and “Rachel.” We left my friends’ house after breakfast this morning and didn’t get home until about 2:30 or so. We had a very good time with Emily and Allan as well. The first night we went over to their house for a barbecue; their house was only about 10 minutes away from our hotel room in downtown Silver Spring. On Sunday, we met Emily and Allan in our hotel lobby and we walked to the Metro stop to take the train to the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. The couple originally intended for us to do an outdoor activity on Saturday, but that was squelched because of the unbearable heat. We spent about two hours browsing the various floors of the museum before going for ice cream and coffee at Dolcezza Gelato and Coffee. We later met at J. Hollinger’s Waterman’s Chophouse, a restaurant and bar in downtown Silver Spring.

So it’s getting late here and I’m getting somewhat tired. I almost didn’t write today’s blog because of how I feel, but it’s tomorrow that I might miss writing my blog because of our gay men’s reading club group that ends at 8. Elliot has already informed me that he doesn’t intend to go with me tomorrow, so I’m on my own.

So if I’m not here tomorrow, have a good Tuesday.

Stat safe and be well.