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Trump Is Reportedly ‘Very Upset’ and Throwing a Tantrum Over People Learning the Dirty Details of Hush Money Case

I’m always happy when something makes Donald Trump miserable. After what he did to all of us, he deserves it. Raw Story reports he is “on the brink of a tantrum” and I’m not sure how that’s news because he’s always on the “brink” or in the middle of a tantrum. But at least this time it’s for a good reason and I couldn’t be happier. This time he’s in a right proper mood as details emerge from one criminal court case that he “really hates.”

I don’t know, maybe it’s just me, but I wouldn’t think he likes any of them. I think it can be safely said he hates all of them. But as I said, maybe that’s just me.

But this time around, Trump is getting feisty over Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s hush-money case as court filings reveal “steamy” (ugh) details of the ex-president’s past, according to sources who have spoken with Trump, The New York Times reports.

“Trump’s aides are blunt that he particularly hates this case given the nature of the story that prosecutors intend to put in front of the jury,” write Alan Feuer and Maggie Haberman. “The details being made public also upset Trump.”

Then Haberman and Feuer take a deeper dive into the details that they say Trump hates being made public.

“In the waning days of Trump’s first run for the White House, the adult film star Stormy Daniels threatened to reveal an affair she says she had with him — a scandalous development that could have damaged his campaign,” the two write. “So, according to prosecutors and their star witness, the former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, Trump arranged to buy her silence.”

“In so doing, employees working at his direction falsified a series of invoices, checks and ledger entries to cover his tracks.”

It looks like March is going to be a really fun month for Trump for two particularly big reasons: While he has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records, he’ll also be standing trial on March 25, the very same day his more than $450 million civil fraud payout is due, according to court records show.

Bragg and the former president are fighting over evidence that can be presented in trial, especially the infamous Access Hollywood tape that should have ended his 2016 campaign.

Trump’s clown school legal team asserts all of this is more salacious than informative, but Bragg contends the tape proves Trump had a motive to silence Stormy Daniels. But that’s not all — Bragg also aims to inform the jury of a payment reportedly made to Trump Tower doorman Dino Sajuding to keep him from repeating a baseless claim about Trump’s out-of-wedlock child, per the Times.

“Not surprisingly,” Haberman and Feuer write, “Trump’s lawyers have vehemently objected.”

Legal experts say that in a judicial sense, Bragg’s case isn’t as substantial as the other four criminal cases Trump faces, but on a political level it could be disastrous. The trial begins just weeks after former South Carolina Governor Nikki dropped out of the Republican presidential nomination race, and Trump is in a hurry to scoop up supporters who could vote either way.

“The details of Trump’s behavior could also further alienate women and swing voters whose backing he needs in a general election,” the Times report concludes.

“The impact the case may have on his behavior inside and outside court remains to be seen.”

I don’t think all that much “remains to be seen.” He’s generally in a surly mood whether he’s inside or outside of court. I think he wakes up like that in the morning and goes to bed feeling the same way. Trump is pretty simple to figure out really: If he’s not bullying someone or outright laughing at them, he’s p*ssed off. If he’s p*ssed off, he’s throwing a pity party for himself on Truth Social.

I mean really, the man really has only three moods: Belligerent, bellicose, and bullying.

Like I said, Donald Trump is pretty simple.

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Megan has lived in California, Nevada, Arizona, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida and she currently lives in Central America. Living in these places has informed her writing on politics, science, and history. She is currently owned by 15 cats and 3 dogs and regularly owns Trump supporters when she has the opportunity. She can be found on Twitter at https://twitter.com/GaiaLibra and Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/politicalsaurus

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