Today is Sunday, May 26, 2024. The despot of the hour got a heady dose of reality the other day when he appeared at the Libertarian Party’s national convention yesterday in Washington, D.C., and got roundly booed and rejected by the disapproving crowd. This startling burst of reality for the possibly soon-to-be convicted former president is covered in an online WGTC article by Apeksha Bagchi entitled ‘One of Trump’s worst nightmares’: Donald Trump gets real and candid when his bubble breaks on live TV.”

In the crowd listening to his mouth garbage were people who don’t blindly follow his aimless words and promises, so his request to “combine” the people there with his campaign was met with loud boos and cries of “hypocrite” since there were too many sane individuals who remembered his many frauds, his advice to inject bleach during COVID-19, and the massive debt the nation collected under his regime.

Here the “Republican presidential candidate did his best to power through the blatant rejection, wrapping his extended ‘hand of friendship’ in the promise that a Libertarian would be added to his cabinet if he is elected as president.” He even tried to make a lame joke that fell flat with this disapproving audience by claiming how his four criminal indictments have made him a Libertarian.

Finally, after 20 minutes of this loud rejection, Dump returned to a defense that he always resorts to when he’s been exposed as the fraud that he is: he resorted to mocking the booing crowd: “Only do that [vote for him] if you want to win. If you want to lose, don’t do that. Keep getting your 3% every four years.”

The 3 percent jibe was aimed at the fact that it has been the percentage of votes Libertarians have mostly won in previous presidential elections.

Bagchi ends his humorous jab at Trump, saying, “Well, here is to the many, many more boos in Trump’s future as he dares to fantasize that his shady and despicable past and present will still win him the White House.”

As for another hate-filled rally that the presumptive Reputin candidate put on, this time in the Bronx on Friday, former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner said on his Justice Matters show that Dump may have violated the rules placed on him by the court as a defendant. His comments appear in an online RawStory article by Matthew Chapman entitled “Trump put on notice he could be jailed for ‘inciting violence’ at his Bronx ‘hate rally.'” On his show, Kirschner maintained that Drumpf put the whole community in danger.

The rally, which in typical Dump fashion had far fewer people than his campaign so falsely claimed (remember his 2027 inauguration in which the size of the crowd was falsely claimed to be “huge,” but it wasn’t), is his latest attempts to campaign around his criminal trial in Manhattan and was billed as an event to connect Black and Hispanic voters.

Kirschner made this observation of the former president, “If Donald Trump’s lips are moving, he’s probably lying, inciting violence, or both, all while being on pretrial release in multiple criminal cases.” He added, Trump is the “very embodiment of hatred.”

The subjects of his barbs of hatred that night were immigrants and “drugged-out homeless people living in our places,” according to Kirschner. All the while he praised dictators like Vladimir Putin, while inviting rappers accused of a murder conspiracy onstage. Kirschner quipped, “Boy, what uplifting messages.”

The former federal prosecutor said his rally is going to encourage violence, referencing the time when Dump referred to COVID as the “Kung Flu,” which resulted in a major spike in anti-Asian assaults. Kirschner also cites the time when Dump urged his diehard supporters to come to the Capitol on January 6, 2021, and they did so.

Kirschner sees a mechanism that the law could rely on when such an agent of chaos as Trump is let loose on the planet, and that would entail confining, imprisoning, and incarcerating such a danger to society in Trump’s case, before homeless people, immigrants, judges, and jurors are endangered by Chump’s incendiary rhetoric.

In closing arguments, so to speak, Kirschner concluded, “we sacrifice everyone to the dangerous, reckless, violence-inducing behavior of one man.” And the saving grace is that the trial in Manhattan will see closing arguments soon, which may portend Trump’s first criminal conviction – and a real punishment, which he is hopeful Judge Juan Merchan will bring.

The trial will resume on Tuesday.

Tomorrow is Memorial Day. Have an appropriately reflective day.

Stay safe and be well.

Here’s Atticus on the prowl. He should be entered into the feline Olympics.