re: #44 Dr Lizardo

I think that at the moment (and hopefully, extending into campaign season proper knock on wood), it’s a money issue. Trump simply doesn’t have the money for multiple campaign rallies across multiple states.

And it’s only going to get worse in the summer and fall when first NY and then GA drag his ass into a closed courtroom for weeks at a time. Unlike the civil trials, he can’t just decide he’s had enough ego-bashing and storm out to whine to the cameras. And with all the shit he’s tried up til now, the judges are very unlikely to put up with grandstanding like showing up late or bellyaching just loud enough for the jury to hear him. And there is not a doubt in my mind that if the judges give the typical order not to discuss the case outside the courtroom, he will have violated it (and been reamed by the judge for doing so) within the first week of both trials.

I offer a prediction of one stunt he’s probably going to try within the first month if not the first week of each trial: He’s going to publicly announce a huge rally somewhere across the country (minimum 2 hour flight) at a ridiculously early time (say 2pm local time) and make sure it gets national attention. Then, on the day of the rally, he’s gonna tell the judge that either the trial needs to be put on-hold for the day or session ended way early so he can make it to the airport with time to get to the rally before the start time. So that, when the judge inevitably tells him to STFU and STFD, he can run screaming to the press as soon as the court is recessed for the day to scream about how the “partisan” judge deliberately held him in court past the start of the rally to hurt his campaign.