'Cause You Had a Bad Day Week

     Odds are that if you're a Thanos wannabe like Donald Trump, you're going to have a lot of bad days and even weeks. But this past week, which isn't even over, yet, was an especially bad one for the former "president". Let's take stock, shall we?

     First, the Supreme Court yesterday decided to deny Trump his claims of executive privilege for refusing to turn over between 700 and 800 documents to the J6 Committee. It was a clear victory for the Committee that may be running on borrowed time and reaffirmed the importance, the necessity, even, of Congressional oversight. Consequently, the SCOTUS's ruling essentially left Mark Meadows and Steve Bannon, who are also withholding documents (and Bannon his testimony) to twist in the wind since they plainly can now no longer claim executive privilege (which, in Bannon's case, is especially laughable as he was fired by the Trump White House way back in the summer of 2017).

     Further twisting the judicial knife at a cruel angle is the fact that, in the Supreme Court's 8-1 ruling, all of Trump's picks, Gorsuch, Barrett and Kavanaugh, sided with the liberal justices along with Alito and Chief Justice John Roberts. For now, at least (except as far as Roe v Wade goes), the justices are holding firm to their vows to respect legal precedent (or stare decisis). In this case, it was the affirmation of the high court's ruling from 1974 that compelled Nixon to turn over the Watergate tapes after he; too, tried to invoke executive privilege.

     Naturally, the tight-lipped Clarence "Uncle" Thomas, not having the patience for such tripe as stare decisis, farted in lone dissent.

     This means the National Archives has to turn over to the January 6 Committee the 700-800 documents Trump had been zealously keeping from it. They're expected to prove that Trump did, indeed, commit obstruction to Congress, which potentially comes with a 20 year prison sentence.

 

     Also this week, NY AG Letitia James' office released a 115 page court filing (paywall) full of all sorts of goodies. It revealed evidence that Trump did what Trump's been doing for decades and ridiculously inflating and deflating like a puffer fish on a bad acid trip the size and value of his properties in order to score favorable loans as well as to dodge paying his taxes. In one notable instance, Trump tried to claim that his penthouse apartment in Trump Tower was actually 33,000 sq. feet, which would have been larger than his Jed Clampett Westchester mansion. In reality, the penthouse is just under 11,000 sq. feet. And we've known about this ongoing exaggeration for five years.

     It remains to be seen if Trump thinks he can fit his inflated inauguration or riot crowds into his inflated penthouse.

     And, so they wouldn't feel left out, Letitia James also folded Eric, Fredo and Ivanka in with the filing. Because, you know, the family that crimes together does the time together.

     There was also the revelation that when Eric was deposed before the investigators, he'd pleaded the 5th more than 500 times in six hours, which must set some sort of record even including Mafia testimony. In fact, according to Daddy Warbucks, only mobsters plead the fifth. This proves that there's something in the world that's actually slimier than Eric Trump's hair and that's Eric Trump himself.

     Meanwhile, south of Mason Dixon, Fulton County DA Fani Willis asked for a special grand jury to look into Trump's attempts to get Georgia elections officials, including Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger, to throw the election in his favor by "finding" 11,780 votes. (Trump lost Georgia by 11,779 votes). The fact that she's requested a special grand jury is significant because special grand juries can remain impaneled for six months or even more before deciding whether to hand down an indictment. Why would a grand jury need to remain empaneled for up to half a year? Well (no pun intended), the jury's still out on that one but it strongly hints at all the evidence that Willis' office uncovered that the grand jury will need time to hear.

     It'll also involve Trump catapulting Mark Meadows to Atlanta so he could brow-beat Deputy Secretary of State Jordan Fuchs into letting him into the counting room during one of the audits.

     I'm sure that went over well with the Cane Corso of Mar a Lago since we all know how much Trump respects powerful women of color.

     Also today, the January 6 Committee sent Ivanka Trump a letter requesting certain documents pertaining to her father's actions on January 6 last year.

     Earlier this week was the revelation that Trump's kids, in tried-and-true Trump fashion, refused to pay the bill for a block of rooms, which led the unpaid balance to go to collections. Apparently, the Trump kids wanted to have a sleepover at the Loews Madison Hotel when 13 of their buddies didn't show up and they then tried to get the Presidential Inaugural Committee to foot the bills, which they didn't at first.

     This is significant because DC Attorney General Karl Racine is investigating the antics of the PIC. Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, who managed the funds for the inauguration itself, revealed the Trumps, in tried-and-true ratfucking fashion, tried to blame her for their corruption and that she's been cooperating with investigators for years.

     Elsewhere on the legal front, Trump crime family shysters Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell and Jenna Ellis were subpoenaed by the January 6th Select Committee and ordered to hand over what will surely prove to be incriminating documents and be deposed on February 8th. In the likely event Giuliani refuses to comply, police will be able to find him with the trail of hair dye.

     Speaking of Mayor Broken Windows, it also came out yesterday that Giuliani was the "Trump lawyer" who pressured at least one fake elector in Michigan and spearheaded the effort behind the forged elector documents in seven states to replace the legally-elected and authorized electors with fake Trump electors. Not only that, he was aided in this attempt by OAN's Christina Bobb.

     I imagine by now that if one more piece of bad news hits the links at Mar a Lago, we'll be treated to a massive raft of stories about a hostage situation complete with 911 calls from a panicked woman with a Slovenian accent begging to be rescued.