What evil force drives and protects Trump?

[ancianita]

85. His luck was his money for 50+ years. I read earlier around here something about his luck.

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Back in Trump's 3,500 lawsuit days, law enforcement saw Trump as a silly, petty, conman grifter who primarily harmed other grifters like himself. He, his half-assed lawyers and accountants created layer after layer of entities and transactions they knew would be too difficult to sort through.

Back then, Trumpsters thought law enforcement stayed away because they were criminal masterminds.

But actually, back then, law enforcement thought it wasn't worth using up limited resources and personnel to take down the penny ante rat who grifted other grifters. They didn't jail him because he wasn't worth it. Fake luck

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Today, as president, Trump's big mistake has been to take his grifter schemes and money grubbing lackeys into The White House, The People's House. If he had quit the grift game, law enforcement might have let him, his crime family, and his syndicate slide.

But Trumpsters ramped up their criminality, and Trump used the power of the U.S. presidency not only to globalize his grift, but to marginalize and obstruct federal powers of law and order. Fake luck.

Trump privately and publicly got in federal law enforcement's -- and 16 intelligence agencies' -- faces. He mocked them, lied to the country, undermined them, broke laws, norms, obstructed investigations. Considering all his business failure and refusal of any American banks to do business with him, I'd call that well earned persona non grata luck.

He's used the presidential office to elevate his petty criminality to high crimes and misdemeanors -- lied to cover his traitorous dealings -- federal law enforcement's sworn patriotic duty is to bring this president-in-disguise to justice.

Maybe we just want to call his life lucky. His only luck was hitting the vaginal lottery. The rest of it I'd call bizarre. Luck is about getting something for nothing. It's random. It doesn't happen at the expense of others. They just don't get what the lucky get, but no harm comes to them because of the lucky's gain. But not in Trump's case.

This thing about his being lucky looks more like another of his PR grifts. I just think luck hasn't got one damn thing to do with what he's living right now. Outside winning the lottery, wealth and power are hardly a matter of luck. If it is luck, then he's in luck hell right now, overall. He and his syndicate's grift is to act as if he can game justice indefinitely.

That's a gamble. His good luck is fake. His bad luck is running out to no luck at all.

I like the Velveteen Ocelot reference to John Milton's Satan here.