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Is Trump the Victim of a Witch Hunt?
How do I say what I’m about to say without getting all my Trump-hating readers good and pissed off at me? Don’t worry, I’m not about to turn around and start saying how wrong I was to spend the last six years saying that Trump’s the biggest POS to ever sit in the Oval Office or anywhere else.
Actually, in the New York neighborhood I come from, the more accurate acronym would be PAS, as in ‘piece a sh*t,’ but either way you get what I mean, right?
I just finished reading People vs. Donald Trump — An Inside Account, by the guy who spearheaded the investigation of Trump by Cy Vance, the Manhattan DA, and then quit after Vance left, Alvin Bragg took over and the whole Trump megillah (read: big deal) was shut down.
The case against Trump is obviously up and running again, but (and here’s where my Trump-hating audience won’t like what I’m going to say) if anything, and certainly not the intention of the book’s author, Mark Pomerantz, this book actually substantiates the idea that Trump has been the victim of a witch hunt and may end up being prosecuted for doing business the way it’s always been done.
Here is how Pomerantz describes his feelings about Trump: “I saw him as a malignant narcissist, and perhaps even a megalomaniac, who posed a real danger to the country and to the ideals that mattered to me.” [p…