Crash Course: "The Donald Trump show is over": Trump's attempt to turn his trial into a campaign spectacle fails

Sorry, Donald: Trump wanted to look tough, but instead New York Attorney General Tish James ran him out of town [View in browser](~/AASU4wA~/RgRnAm3BP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvb25qNnl6Y2k5cy8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPW5kYWFiM2FhbmlXA3NwY0IKZR_F6B9lF5NchFIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) Your daily update from [Salon](~/AASU4wA~/RgRnAm3BP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvcWV4bng0cjd4YS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPW5kYWFiM2FhbmkmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZR_F6B9lF5NchFIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). "The Donald Trump show is over": Trump's attempt to turn his trial into a campaign spectacle fails From Amanda Marcotte: Trump's already severe narcisssism has been intensified through years of cheering MAGA crowds and poweful people kissing his ass. The result was that he actually seemed to believe he would look tough and cool for the cameras. Instead, America was [treated to a series of photos of him looking like a sulky child](~/AASU4wA~/RgRnAm3BP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvZDUzNnZmNTZhMi8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPW5kYWFiM2FhbmkmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZR_F6B9lF5NchFIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) in court, accompanied by reports that he acted like a fidgeting, impatient toddler throughout the proceedings. During recess, he ranted at cameras, ping-ponging between racist and sexist vitriol towards James and endless whining about in-the-weeds details that even the biggest legal junkies don't care about. James, meanwhile, has been winning the media war by projecting the effortless confidence that Trump imagines he brings. [Read more](~/AASU4wA~/RgRnAm3BP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvY2p5bGIxNnAzei8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPW5kYWFiM2FhbmkmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZR_F6B9lF5NchFIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). One nation on two divergent paths From Chauncey DeVega: Biden is a humane teacher who values reason, critical thinking, intelligence, human empathy, and patience. By comparison, Donald Trump is a type of cruel teacher, a political sadist, a fascist and a demagogue, who teaches through meanness, lies, bullying, and threats of violence and by rejecting reason, intelligence, dialogue, the facts, hard work, kindness, goodness, empathy, reason and contemplation. Trump's "teaching" style is in keeping with how mental health professionals have warned that he has a primitive personality, a diseased mind, and a pathological character. [Read more](~/AASU4wA~/RgRnAm3BP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvdDV5Y3Nnc2FhNS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPW5kYWFiM2FhbmkmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZR_F6B9lF5NchFIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). 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