Who said God has no sense of humor?
Who else would see to it that porn star Stormy Daniels is required to pay Donald Trump $122,000 in legal fees stemming from a defamation lawsuit?
Better than that for Trump and his followers is that the news broke the same day that the former president was arrested and arraigned in Manhattan on dubious hush money charges.
The charges consist of falsifying business records over a $130,00 hush money payments to Daniels to cover up an alleged affair. Trump has denied the affair.
Daniels was a star witnesses who testified before Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s grand jury that handed down the hush money indictments against Trump.
The civil litigation and the $122,000 is unrelated to Bragg’s charges, which Trump pled not guilty to, but both involve Daniels.
Daniels had sued Trump in 2018 after he called her allegations that an unknown man had threatened her to keep quite about the alleged affair a “total con job.”
Her attorney at the time was the disgraced Michael Avenatti, who is now in prison for, among other things, stealing $300,000 of the $800,000 advance that Daniels got for her tell all book “Full Disclosure.”
The Daniels case against Trump was dismissed in federal court in 2019.
On Tuesday the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in California ruled that Daniels must compensate Trump $122,000 in attorney fees on top of the more than $500,000 in court-ordered payments to Trump’s attorneys she has already been ordered to pay.
“I will go to jail before I pay a penny,” Daniels has tweeted in the past.
So, one of the star witnesses against Trump in the Bragg’s pathetic jihad against Trump—if he court does not dismiss the case outright– will be Stormy Daniels who has gained fame and fortune going after Trump.
Another key court witness against Trump will be Michael Cohen, a one-time Trump attorney. He is the alleged deliverer of the hush money payments who was sentenced to three years in prison for tax evasion and perjury.
And the prosecuting attorney will be Bragg, who campaigned for Manhattan district attorney on a platform of going after Trump, and his key witnesses will be a porn star and a perjurer.
When he was assistant attorney general, Bragg led a lawsuit that shut down the Donald J. Trump Foundation, a controversial charity, in 2019 and cost Trump $2 million in fines.
Sounding like Gov. Maura Healey, Bragg said at the time, ”I have sued Trump more than 100 times.” Healey also bragged about suing Trump 100 times when she was attorney general, and Trump was president.
So maybe Bragg will become governor, too.
But don’t count on it.
What you can count on is the Bragg and the Democrats, so desperate to bring Trump down, will bend the judicial system in the country to the breaking point to make sure that Trump does not become president again.
They would rather have the old gaffer Joe Biden, who barely knows where he is, continue to administer to the decline of the country—as long as they are in charge of the decline—than to see Donald Trump return to the White House.
And this Kafka-esq latest Democrat-led persecution of Trump, which began on the day he announced for president in 2016, will continue until he is either destroyed or he prevails.
Unlike Joe Biden, nobody can control Trump (he barely can control himself) and that is what terrifies them.
Trump is like one of those wild, imposing and unpredictable all-American buffaloes at Yellowstone National Park in Montana who crosses an invisible boundary and wanders off, the way Trump has done.
Some are rounded up and returned. Other are hunted down, like Trump.
God had his laugh, but thanks to Biden, Bragg and the Democrats, the joke is on us–America.
Peter Lucas is a veteran Massachusetts political reporter and columnist.
