Trump Demonstrates His Stupidity in the ‘Hush Money’ Case.

As regards the hush-money trial which got going in New York today, Trump is either stupid, dumb or, both, or maybe his legal team has some kind of defensive bomb which they will drop on the prosecution’s case at the appropriate moment and blow the whole thing to smithereens.

Personally speaking, I’ll put a couple of Jacksons on the short odds for the former.

A quick review of the allegations in the indictment: Trump screwed around with a porn actress named Stormy Daniels (a.k.a., Stephanie Gregory Clifford) who was then approached by an agent who wanted to sell the whole story to the National Enquirer, which would run it as a headline piece before the 2016 election.

Trump got wind of this potential deal via his friendship with David Pecker (a perfect last name) who owns the Enquirer and several other tabloids.

The GOP Presidential nominee, already embarrassed by the ‘locker-room talk’ with Billy Budd, instructs his attorney, Michael Cohen, to buy Daniels’ silence for $130,000 which comes right out of Cohen’s bank account in order to hide the connection between Daniels and Trump.

Then, Trump repays Cohen for giving the ‘hush money’ to Daniels and writes it off as a ‘business expense’ for legal services rendered by Cohen to him. Which makes Trump guilty of falsifying business documents that could be used to write off revenues and hence, lower the tax bill for The Trump Organization.

In other words, the scheme is just another instance of tax evasion which happens to be a felony because the word ‘evasion’ is a polite of saying ‘theft.’

Now, I can certainly understand that in the last weeks before the 2016 election, Trump would have needed a front-page story about screwing around with a professional hooker like Stormy Daniels like he would have needed a hole in his head.

But the way he went about ‘solving’ this problem can only represent, as I said above, the behavior of someone who is stupid, dumb or both. Here’s why.

First, Trump had to know that the Democrats were looking at any and all possible ways to fuck him over, particularly with some salacious gossip, given the Billy Budd tape, as well as the Steele dossier which described multiple sexual activities between Trump and some Russian call-girls in a Moscow hotel.

This knowledge alone should have made Trump try to figure out a way to shut up Daniels which couldn’t be traced back to him.

Instead, Trump instructs his attorney to make the payoff and he will reimburse Cohen for some so-called legal work.

Now, first of all, any attorney who would agree to enter a conspiracy with his client to commit a felony or multiple felonies, has to be a scumbag and a piece of shit, or both. And if you work with an attorney who not only listens to the whole scheme without walking out of the room and declaring the discussion ended, but actually agrees to help you commit a crime, you are dealing with an attorney who can’t be trusted at all.

So, here’s Donald Trump engaged in a knock down, drawn-out electoral battle with an opponent whom he refers to as ‘crooked Hillary,’ and he gets himself stuck in the middle of a situation in between a hooker who is actually playing the non-violent extortion game and his attorney who is a lot more corrupt than either Hillary or even Bill.

And by the way, if Trump is really as rich as he says he is, what’s the big deal about forking up $130,000 bucks?

Trump has been saying the whole case is a scam because, according to him, the sexual la-dee-da with Daniels never took place. Recall how far he got with that story in the defamation case where he ended up owing (and still owes) Jean Carroll $148 million even though he also claimed that no sexual encounter between them ever occurred.

You would think that someone who was trying to develop a national following that would eventually power him into the White House would learn to keep his dick in his pants. But let’s not forget that Bill Clinton also couldn’t keep his fly buttoned up even after he established his residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.

And who ever said that Clinton was so smart?