Donald Trump- back in the news again

 Donald Trump- back in the news again.

The man who used to be president of the USA sat sombrely in an American high court and tried to pretend that he really wasn't watching or listening to the charges that had been so cruelly levelled against him. Besides it wasn't his fault, not me governor. He wasn't at the scene of the crime and this was quite clearly a travesty of justice, a total miscarriage of justice. How dare the American judiciary imply for a minute that he'd been up to no good and he was just a model of integrity and probity.

Donald Trump, the former president of the USA, had been victimised and singled out for improper treatment and conduct when most of us know that Trump was one of the most farcical, ridiculous and preposterous President that America had ever had. From the moment he'd put his feet under the desk at the heart of American politics, Trump had committed all manner of blunders. The man was just insufferably arrogant, full of pumped up pomposity. Or so we were led to believe.

At the Oval office, Trump joked his way through his term of office rather like an end of seaside pier clown in a circus. Now though things have come to a dramatic head and the man with the distinctive hairstyle is being interrogated by countless numbers of high ranking officials, legal aficionados, barrack room lawyers and those who just want Trump locked up in a prison cell for the rest of his life.

Trump just sat there with a sullen glare and menacing scowl as if he quite obviously hadn't a clue what all the fuss was all about. The beautifully combed, quiffed hair looked as though it was on its best behaviour and for a moment or two you were reminded of a sea wave rolling onto a Florida beach. For a minute you half expected an athletic looking surfer on their board swooping down from a great height. But then you realised that this was no ordinary politician if that was ever the case anyway. It was Donald Trump. Yes the man who will never be forgotten by the American public if only for all the wrong reasons. 

But yesterday once the most famous man in the world  couldn't quite believe what was happening to him and, let's be honest, nor could we. The celebrated hotel owner and multi million dollar man had been nabbed by the cops. Donald Trump was arrested by the authorities and the list of his duplicitous activities were laid bare to the American public who were either flabbergasted or just pleased that what goes around comes around. The charges and allegations followed by the ultimate indictment were there in front of Trump and his cronies. Of course he denied all of the well documented misdemeanours that had been committed but then he would.

Yesterday that esteemed body of men and women who make up the Congress in Washington, rattled off a whole sequence of felonies including the falsifying of important business documents throughout his much mocked administration and, alarmingly, a good deal worse. We were then reminded of those violent riots in Washington where the enraged and the outraged, the incensed and fuming, broke into the White House and the Capitol building, ransacking everything in their path, wrecking the furniture, scrawling graffiti across the walls and generally behaving like those wretched hooligans who once disfigured English football during the 1970s.

Meanwhile Donald Trump had already been smuggled out of office by then. He was no longer President of the United States and how a majority of Americans breathed a sigh of relief. For the rest of last year Trump seemed to have disappeared almost completely only to re-emerge recently. The vanishing act had worked to perfection. But you didn't think he'd get off that lightly. Trump was in the background with protestations of innocence as his only defence. It is hard to believe that he could have got away with it for so long but now he becomes the centre of attention again, a convicted criminal who probably won't go to prison but can only sheepishly admit that he might have been ever so slightly responsible.

Sadly Trump now cuts a pathetic and forlorn figure. Of course the books have been cooked, accounts have been tampered with and there is a dark cloud of illegitimacy hanging over him. There was the so called 'bullying' of the Scottish government, the undermining of trade relations with China and a whole host of vile violations and potty mouthed statements that were so incomprehensible that even he couldn't quite understand them.

And so to the present day. Even now some of us can only believe that a man so self centred and self possessed, so vain, narcissistic, misogynistic and controlling had just spent the best part of two and a half  years polarising opinion, dragging the USA down to the lowest common denominator but convinced that he was the best thing since sliced bread. Trump was the greatest of them all, the finest, a man with all the relevant credentials for entering the American Hall of Fame. Nobody could deny that everything he'd done had been perfect, flawless, transforming the country's fortunes overnight.

However, we could all see this for the sham it was, perjury of the worst kind. He told us to drink bleach as the perfect antidote for Covid 19. He would rant almost indefinitely on subjects for which he had no prior knowledge. He would verbally attack the media, TV, radio, newspapers and of course notably so, social media giant Twitter, pointing the fingers of blame at people he'd never met. He would single out members of the assembled Press and then blast their ear drums with the most powerful rhetoric, language none of us could make head or tail of.

Still, Trump is in court in quite the most unprecedented fashion. He knows where he might have gone wrong but his air of untouchable superiority continues to look a very bad fit. The damage though has quite obviously been done and there can no be way back from the precipice. At the moment there is something very toxic and explosive about this unquestionable political scandal. The gossip factory is in full spate and Trump knows that at some point something will have to give.

So we look on from a far distant country and your observations on this intriguing news story are probably reflected by the rest of the world. Every time we become subjected to one of many skeletons in the Trump wardrobe, we think back to the tearful and hugely emotional Richard Nixon who cried buckets in front of Sir David Frost, the legendary TV broadcaster. Watergate had sunk Nixon and left him humiliated. When Bill Clinton became president of the United States way back in the past, we were soon to discover that Clinton's turbulent private life would take precedence to anything he would do as President.

Today Donald Trump will search his conscience for some kind of salvation. He will roll his eyes across a courtroom, stare vacantly into the middle distance and then accept his punishment since final decisions have to be made and around him the chattering classes will rub their hands with sadistic glee. Donald Trump has now been rumbled, mercilessly exposed for who he is and the jury will make their decisive judgments. The cynics will insist that this is just a cheap publicity stunt and a battle Trump is bound to win. Whatever we may think him, Trump will always be regarded as one of the more unorthodox of American presidents. The important reminder here though is that a bottle of bleach to cure deadly viruses is not to be recommended. Keep smiling Mr Trump. Things may get better.