On Wednesday, failed former president Donald Trump acted like a petulant toddler and suddenly decided he would no longer attend the ongoing New York fraud trial that could cost him hundreds of millions of dollars in fines and penalties.
Business Insider reports:
“I’d rather be right now in Iowa,” Trump said in a parting shot to reporters at the start of the lunch break, midway through the trial’s first week.
“I’m stuck here because I have a corrupt attorney general who communicates with the Justice Department to keep me busy,” he said, leaving the third-floor courtroom, where the future of his real-estate empire is set to be decided over the next two to three months.
What prompted the disgraced one-term, twice-impeached ex-head of state to suddenly leave the proceedings after two days of scowling and threatening comments about the presiding judge?
According to the Donald’s niece, Mary Trump, it’s all about the embarrassment.
Writing on her Substack newsletter, she noted:
“He showed up in New York voluntarily because he knew how important this fraud trial is not only to his reputation but to the core of his own beliefs about who he is.”
“He left because he knew nothing he did—the pouting, the angry stares, the media hits—was working.”
“That plus the humiliation of falling off the Forbes 400 were too much for him to take.”
Trump had also said that he would testify at some point in the trial, though that seems highly unlikely. Even if he does, it’s likely he’ll cling to his Fifth Amendment privilege and refuse to say anything for fear it would open him up to even more charges.
Absolutely nothing is going well for Trump right now. He’s on the verge of being flat broke and possibly headed to prison. No wonder he doesn’t want to show his face in public.
