https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/donald-trump-more-popular-taylor-swift-maga-biden-1234956829/

Really? Are Trump and his cronies that pathetic they feel they need to do this?
Actually, maybe he does feel threatened by a young, successful popular (maybe moreso than him) woman, who is actually a real billionaire (not a phony one or only on paper).

In fact, now I think about it they probably are that pathetic 🙄

NBC News - Takeaways from the 2024 cash dash: Legal cases drain Trump as clash with Biden looms

01 Jan 2024

WASHINGTON - Former President Donald Trump is facing a cash crunch as he tries to defend himself in court, lock down the Republican nomination and turn toward a general election rematch with an increasingly money-flush President Joe Biden.

 

Campaign finance records filed Wednesday show the main super PAC supporting Trump's campaign, MAGA Inc., spent more than it raised in the last six months of 2023 - primarily by transferring back $30 million to Save America, the main vehicle for paying the former president's prodigious legal fees. 

 

Similarly, Trump's official campaign blew through more cash than it took in over the last three months of the year. ...

 

By comparison, Biden's campaign ended the year with $46 million in cash, far more than the $33 million Trump's campaign held before the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary.  ...

 

Trump continues to be a master of small-dollar fundraising.

 

The entire Trump issue, in many ways, is simply about the worth, value and necessity of 'democracy'. We're all familiar with the word, but what actually is democracy? 

Churchill reputedly said, "Democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried..."
He didn't coin the aphorism and actually said, "Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…" https://richardlangworth.com/worst-form-of-government

I found some very interesting comments on the subject here: https://www.quora.com/What-are-three-issues-that-democracy-cannot-solve
Well worth a read.

https://plus.thebulwark.com/p/nikki-haley-trump-evasiveness >> Nikki Haley tries to have "a bob each way".

https://archive.ph/SN9zU >> this doesn't sound good - hopefully the January 6 case gets rescheduled soon.

Some very bad news ...

The NY Times - Prosecutor in Trump Georgia Case Admits Relationship With Colleague

breaking

Fani T. Willis, the district attorney prosecuting the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald J. Trump, acknowledged on Friday a “personal relationship” with a prosecutor she hired to manage the case but argued that it was not a reason to disqualify her or her office from it.

 

The admission came almost a month after allegations of an “improper, clandestine personal relationship” between the two surfaced in a motion from one of Mr. Trump’s co-defendants.

 

The motion seeks to disqualify both prosecutors and Ms. Willis’s entire office from handling the case - an effort that, if successful, would likely sow chaos for an unprecedented state criminal prosecution of a former president. 

 

Ms. Willis’s filing includes an affidavit from Mr. Wade asserting that the personal relationship started only after Mr. Wade had been hired. 

 

The allegations, and Ms. Willis’s silence about them until now, have thrown the high-stakes prosecution off balance, giving Mr. Trump a new line of attack and raising the prospect of delays or more serious impacts on the case.

 

A couple of cartoons from this week's events:

This might be the case soon for Trump 🤞:

How the MAGA crowd basically thinks, especially regarding people like Taylor Swift:

Sideface:

 

Some very bad news ...

 

The NY Times - Prosecutor in Trump Georgia Case Admits Relationship With Colleague

 

breaking

 

What were these people thinking? You need to be squeaky clean if you go after Trump or him and his supporters will crucify you and your case will fail.