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‘His Own Family Won’t Show Up’: Trump Mocked After Getting Caught Telling Humiliating Lie About Why He’s All Alone in Court

How desperate can you get?

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It’s been a while now since we came to understand that Donald Trump is a liar. I mean, we knew way back in the day, 50 years ago, when he got caught refusing to rent to black people in New York, and lost the case the Department of Justice brought against him.

But we didn’t know he just full-on made things up until the last seven years or so.

In fact, maybe he was a little TOO honest for our tastes, what with telling Billy Bush what he likes to grab on that one episode of Access Hollywood.

But he’s truly desperate now.

In the middle of his first criminal trial, where the charges are that he falsified his finances to cover up his affairs with other women in order to better his chances at winning the 2016 election, he’s now making things up out of whole cloth.

Tuesday, Trump claimed that a mass of police officers outside the courthouse of his Manhattan trial was preventing his supporters from, well, showing their support.

In a crazed and maniacal post on Truth Social, Trump said, “Why are Palestinian protesters, and even rioters, allowed to roam the Cities, scream, shout, sit, block traffic, enter buildings, not get permits, and basically do whatever they want including threatening Supreme Court Justices right in front of their homes, and yet people who truly LOVE our Country, and want to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, are not allowed to “Peacefully Protest,” and are rudely and systematically shut down and ushered off to far away “holding areas,” essentially denying them their Constitutional Rights.

He continued, “America Loving Protesters should be allowed to protest at the front steps of Courthouses, all over the Country, just like it is allowed for those who are destroying our Country on the Radical Left, a two tiered system of justice. Free Speech and Assembly has been “CHILLED” for USA SUPPORTERS. GO OUT AND PEACEFULLY PROTEST. RALLY BEHIND MAGA. SAVE OUR COUNTRY! “THE ONLY THING YOU HAVE TO FEAR IS FEAR ITSELF.”

But a video from NBC reporter Vaughn Hillyard from the same time as Trump made the claim shows something completely different: A completely quiet street with one Trumper on it. No cops, no crowds, no traffic buildup, just one idiot in attendance to support their cult leader.

It’s hard to decide what’s going on in Trump’s head. Is it delusion? Is it his honest belief?

Trump has actually been trying to get his people to show up at his trials. He feels like, if there’s a public presence, a show of support, it will get him some kind of justice he’s comfortable with.

But it’s been backfiring on him. Regularly, news crews outnumber his supporters outside his court proceedings.

It all goes back to something we’ve discussed on this site before — stochastic terrorism. If you didn’t read it last time I wrote about it, it’s basically when someone with a public presence tries to make people mad on their own behalf and protest or commit violence.

The saddest thing about Trump pretending that he has all of these outraged supporters outside the courthouse is that it makes me wonder if he’s overestimating how many people are going to show up to vote for him.

Don’t get me wrong: Show up and vote against Donald Trump, because there are plenty of idiots who don’t live near Manhattan that will be voting for him.

I just mean, what is going on in his head?

People on social media had a field day:

And sadly, here’s the truth:

Andrew Simpson
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Andrew is a dark blue speck in deep red Central Washington, writing with the conviction of 18 years at the keyboard and too much politics to even stand. When not furiously stabbing the keys on breaking news stories, he writes poetry, prose, essays, haiku, lectures, stories for grief therapy, wedding ceremonies, detailed instructions on making doughnuts from canned biscuit dough (more sugar than cinnamon — duh), and equations to determine the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow. A girlfriend, a dog, two cats, and two birds round out the equation, and in his spare time, Drewbear likes to imagine what it must be like to have spare time.

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