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Trump Gets Testy and Refuses to Answer Questions When Confronted About Melania’s Whereabouts

I really wish I could do his voice, because I would have such a hilarious impression of him.

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When Donald Trump walked into the courthouse this morning, he was already upset. And why shouldn’t he be? After all, this is the first trial he’s faced that holds the possibility of jail.

Sure, he’s got plenty of other stuff (that he’s lost, and that’s coming up), but this has to be terrifying for the orange menace because it’s a criminal trial, instead of civil.

But the ranting speech he performed outside the courtroom before going in today was ridiculous.

Someone in the row of reporters outside the room asked about where Melania was. If I were facing a criminal trial that might result in prison time, I would certainly want my wife by my side.

Trump seems unconcerned.

In fact, after the question was shouted out, he completely ignored it and launched into a clearly-rehearsed tirade about the New York Attorney General, the judge in his fraud case, the bonding company he still had to use, despite his bond being lowered from nearly half a billion dollars to under a quarter of a billion.

All of his stuff is obviously rehearsed.

“Donald, where’s Melania?” was met with a stone face. Either he doesn’t care if she’s not there, or he’s acutely aware of her absence. Instead of answering the question, Trump went right in with his act.

“Before we begin, I’d just like to say, these are all Biden trials. This is done as election interference, everybody knows it… I’m here, instead of being able to be in Pennsylvania, or Georgia, lots of other places campaigning. And it’s very unfair.

Fortunately, the poll numbers are very good — they’ve been going up, because people understand what’s going on; this is a witch hunt, and it’s a shame, and it comes out of Washington.”

Now, the ridiculousness of his statement notwithstanding, this is a man who has literally promised to use the Justice Department against his political enemies if he’s elected again (God forbid). He has VOWED to do the thing he’s accusing Biden and the Democrats of doing right now.

All of that makes the rest of his speech equally hypocritical.

We’ll see what happens in court. But we already know what’s happening at home. His wife doesn’t want to be there.

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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