Trump Takes the Perp Walk.

As Donald Trump gets ready to do his perp walk this week, we really have to ask the most important question, which is this: How could a guy who built a big business and also had a reality-TV hit for fifteen seasons screw things up as badly as Trump has screwed things up?

It’s all well and good that various pro-Trump noisemakers like Steve Bannon are saying how the coming New York State indictment will serve to make 2024 an easy win for Trump, or that Mike Pence doesn’t think an indictment should push Trump out of the 2024 race.

Last night the NBC Evening News played a tape where Trump is heard telling Michael Cohen to pay Stormy Daniels in cash. Cohen says, “I’ll write out a check,” and Trump answers, “No, no, no, pay her in cash.”

Now maybe Bill Clinton behaved like a jerk by telling a grand jury that he and Monica didn’t have sex. But at least he didn’t slip the kid a few Franklins after she gave him a pipe job — standing up.

Trump may not be as smart as he thinks he is, but he can’t be all that dumb. He had to know that he won the 2016 Presidential election because Hillary couldn’t pull out Democrats in three states. Trump also had to know that the Democrats won the House in 2018 because he made the midterms a plebiscite on himself. Finally, he had to know that the Pandemic caused his campaign to crater in 2020, no…