Today is Friday, November 3, 2023. After a bruising week of testimony delivered by Donald Chump’s two sons, Don Jr. and Eric, at the $250 million financial fraud trial being conducted in Judge Arthur Engoron’s New York courtroom, it seems that things will not get much better next week when the former commander in “grief” is expected to testify, along with his daughter, I believe, on Wednesday, November 8 (my birthday). This was the assessment of former Department of Justice (DOJ) official Harry Litman who confided his outlook for the Chumps to an MSNBC host that things appear to be bleak for the former New York real estate mogul. This is covered in an online Raw Story article by Tom Boggioni entitled “The Trumps are anticipating getting ‘clobbered’ after ‘bruising week’: ex-DOJ official.”

Speaking with host Chris Jansing, the legal analyst suggested that the entire Trump family, whose fortunes are tied up in the beleaguered Trump Organization, likely realize the trial is not going their way. (The loathsome Eric Trump went on a tirade outside the courtroom recently, saying New York was going to hell and that, to borrow a tired, worn-out phrase from his old doddering father, the trial was a “witch hunt.” These words are from someone who knows the trial is not going well for his grifting family.)

According to Litman, the reality of Trump’s lawyers arguing minor points with Engoron over passing notes with his chief aide is a sign that they know the case is a lost cause, and they are trying to pull together enough ammunition to use in an inevitable appeal, since Engoron has already ruled in a summary judgment that they are liable for fraud.

Litman explained, “I think it shows it was a bruising week for the Trumps.” He added, “It’s gone quite badly and I think they’re anticipating getting clobbered by Engoron, and they’re trying to create an appellate record wherever they can.”

Elaborating, he added, “They’ll try to say on appeal, ‘Oh, look, he relied on her [law clerk Allison Greenfield], and she was biased against me,’ but the short answer to that is so what? Judges rely on law clerks however they like, and I think it shows that [Trump attorney Christopher] Kise really has very little to go on and that he’s trying to make hay with this pretty weak claim.”

Sao it would seem that the trial is almost over and that it could prove very impactful for the Trumps. Maybe for the first time, Chump will now face some kind of accountability for the unethical practices he’s carried out for so many years with impunity.

In a very intriguing online Raw Story article, it appears that our Founding Fathers prophesied the coming of a Donald J. Trump as early as 1792 in a letter that Alexander Hamilton wrote to George Washington. The article is written by Matthew Chapman and is entitled “a ‘prophetic’ Alexander Hamilton note described Trump almost to a T.”

According to conservative commentator Charlie Sykes, the founders spent an enormous amount of their writings being preoccupied with the worry that a person like Trump would come along to take power. In that letter written in 1792, Hamilton warns Washington that the country could suffer under the grip of a Donald Trump.

In the letter, Hamilton outlines his worries that a demagogue rising to power through unprincipled attacks on the entire governing class that went along with promises that he alone could fix what ails the nation. Does this sound like Chump here already? “I alone can fix it!” he boasted all throughout his first term.

Here is the eerie letter in full: “When a man unprincipled in private life desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, (possessed of considerable talents, having the advantage of military habits), despotic in his ordinary demeanor, known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty, when such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity, to join in the cry of danger to liberty, to take every opportunity of embarrassing the General Government & bringing it under suspicion, to flatter and fall in with all the nonsense of the zealots of the day, it may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion that he may ‘ride the storm and direct the whirlwind.'” Doesn’t this eerily describe the character of the former president, even though the letter was written in 1792? Thus a man of Chump’s character – or lack thereof – was prophesied this early in the nation’s founding. Maybe it was our fate then that we would suffer under the weight of a Donald J. Chump at the time that we did! Now we have the chance to reject him a second time, and for heaven’s sake, we must do it for the sake of liberty.

Sykes concluded that founders like Hamilton would have no difficulty seeing Trump as the embodiment of the threat to liberty they feared.

It’s no mystery that Trump, who is currently facing multiple criminal indictments for attempting to overthrow the 2020 presidential election, has often expressed disdain for the rule of law, attacking any authorities who are investigating his conduct and even at one point suggesting the “termination” of the Constitution in order to reinstall him as president. Maybe “king” would be a better description of his title instead of “president” at that point.

Have a good weekend.

Stay safe and be well.