Is Trump going to Prison?

[Pat Mustard]

Tara! Long time!!

Given Judge Engoron’s comments in the judgement, Trump probably could have avoided most of that fine (and the other penalties) if he had been a little more contrite. Then again, contrition isn’t really in his wheelhouse.

Boru

Hi.  Nice that y'all remember me.

Yeah, he's not exactly contrite.  He lacks a lot of traits common in politicians and I think he's demonstrating why those traits are so common in elected officials.  Unfortunately, what he's very good at is repeating the talking points you hear if you watch Newsmax/OAN/Faux News and that keeps him popular with the GOP base.  The end result is, the republicans have a problem: the base loves Trump, but they have underperformed in EVERY election since he became president because moderate, undecided voters hate him.  His own party can only turn things around if they can get rid of him.

I think it's worse than that for the party. They were using dog-whistle to energise the base befor T****y, but with his open racism capturing most of that base they can't return to coded racism. They could be stuck with T****y clones for a generation.