What's next for Trump?

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Calaroga Shark Media from New York City, where the bronx is up and Trump

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is guilty thirty four times over.
This is valid, that's right. Today

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we'll take a look at what's next
for Trump, and we'll talk about how

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both Biden and RFK reacted to the
verdict. Someone is making me work weekends,

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Don and I don't like it.
Let's hit this well, well,

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well, look who just got hisself
a fresh set of felony convictions to go

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along with that iconic comb over.
After weeks of courtroom dramatics and vintage Trump

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denials, a jury of brave New
Yorkers decided to play hardball and find the

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former president guilty on all thirty four
counts in that sordid Stormy Daniel's hush money

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saga. You'd think paying off a
porn star to keep her mouth shut would

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be a verifiable drop in the bucket
for a supposed billionaire playboy, but nope,

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the Donald just had to make things
exponentially messier by cooking fraud Watergate level

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books to cover it all up.
So much for draining that swamp am I

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Right now, the big question looms, will Trump be doing a stretch of

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hard time in the Gray Bar hotel, or will is inevitable a pea palooza

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succeed in keeping him a free man
to ramble unabated on the twenty twenty four

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campaign trail, knowing this guy's litigious
prowess, My money's on the ladder.

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Not that it'll stop Trump from preemptively
bashing the judge as a highly conflicted devil

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out to get him, because,
of course, the purported billionaire elite has

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to play perpetual victim to the so
called rigged system any chance he gets.

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What's a little unearned martyrdom between friends. Speaking of friends, you just know

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Trump's camp is absolutely eating up,
finally having an excuse to cry about being

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politically persecuted by Biden and his people, as if Sleepy Joe is some puppet

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master kingpin orchestrating the entire justice system
from his basement. I can see the

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fundraising emails now. The crooked Democrats
stole our victory, but you can help

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me fight. Donating the cost of
a big mac meal to my legal defense

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fund. Grifter's gonna grift. Even
with the walls closing in. Of course,

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the GOP establishment is already telegraphing their
total disregard for Trump's newfound criminal status.

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Why let a little felony rap sheet
get in the way of the all

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important quest for power. They'll keep
propping him up as the nominee while conveniently

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ignoring any ethical conflicts. And you
know, Trump's die hard magabase will just

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double down on their cult like devotion. A conviction practically certifies his martyred populist

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bonafides in their alternative reality, He's
fighting for us against the deep State,

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They'll chant between SIPs of ultra male
vitality supplements. The rest of us reasonable

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folks, meanwhile, are left watching
in abject horror as the perpetual clown car

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that is modern American politics just gets
more and more ridiculous by the day.

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A literally convicted felon as a major
party's presidential nominee. You just can't make

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this stuff up. We can do
is buckle up and brace for impact.

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As the fallout really starts raining down, the takes will be scorching, the

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grifting will be relentless, and the
circus will somehow find even newer levels of

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absurdity to plumb before twenty twenty four's
main event, Hey, at least we'll

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always have the dark, comedic relief
of imagining Trump passing the time scribbling manifestos

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with a jailhouse tattooed tear drop.
The memes practically make themselves at this point.

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But for real, I got to
hand it to the Manhattan DA's office.

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They actually managed to hand an l
to the ultimate showman who was born,

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bred, and buttered, slipping out
of every conceivable legal snaffoo unscathed,

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a historic first in the books.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I

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need to go stock up on popcorn
for the inevitable Appeals extravaganza coming down the

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pike. Something tells me we ain't
seen nothing yet in the peak Bonker's era

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of American politics. Buckle up and
start stretching out those calf muscles, folks.

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The real marathon of madness is only
just beginning. I can't say I'm

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surprised the major networks had to cut
away from Trump's unhinged post conviction ramblings once

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it became clear it was more deranged
stump speech than actual news conference. I

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mean, the sheer level of delusion
and reality denying on display would have made

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even your most seasoned Fox News producer's
blush, calling the judge a devil while

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accusing Biden of somehow masterminding the whole
prosecution from his metaphorical basement. Layer chef's

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kiss levels of absurdist conspiracy theorizing,
You've got to respect the media's instinct to

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at least attempt substance in truth overgiving
Trump's unfettered falsehood fire hose a free promotional

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platform. Could you imagine if the
networks just mindlessly aired every uncut second of

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that embarrassing diatribe. Lester, Holt
and Corey clearly made the prudent call to

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cut bait and bring in some actual
legal experts to apply much needed fact checking

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and context no use signal boosting Trump's
self serving fiction as the gospel truth without

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scrutiny. That said, kudos to
Fox News for leaning into their brand and

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just airing the whole clown show start
to finish. At this point, is

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anyone really surprised they, alone among
the major outlets, opted to be Trump's

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hype man without any pesky editorial judgment
getting in the way. It seems President

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Biden has finally decided to weigh in
on Trump's conviction and subsequent meltdown, and

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he's pulling absolutely no punches and defending
the integrity of the justice system against the

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former president's unhinged attacks. You can
practically hear the exasperation in Biden's voice as

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he blasts Trump's reckless, dangerous,
irresponsible claims that the whole trial was just

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one big rigged sham because the verdict
didn't go his way. The president is

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clearly over the perpetual delusions and victimhood
complexes when it comes to Trump and the

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rule of law. It's a refreshingly
forceful rebuke from the usually mild mannered Biden,

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calling out Trump's fascistick rhetoric about living
in a fascist state and demanding respect

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for judicial institutions. That's the kind
of passionate democracy defending messaging that resonates in

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these volatile times. You can imagine
Biden practically wagging his finger at the TV

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as Trump once again tried pedling his
greatest gravance hits from the courthouse steps,

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railing about rigged trials, attacking judges
and witnesses, baselessly accusing his political rivals

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of engineering his downfall. It's the
same sad song and dance we've seen play

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out countless times before, but this
time, with Trump's first actual conviction now

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in the books, Biden seems to
have reached his limit in terms of tolerating

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any further degradation of America's justice system. He's putting his foot down on the

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corrosive norm shredding before it metastasizes into
something even more pernicious. It's a stark

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contrast from the deliberate hands off approach
Biden took throughout the trial itself. Back

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then, his team seemed hesitant to
make any proclamations about the legal process for

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fear of politicizing or undermining it.
The tone has definitely shifted now that a

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guilty verdict is secured. You can
envision Biden's advisers greenlighting a more aggressive,

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patriotic counter narrative to Trump's perpetual grievance
stoking. No more letting flagrant lies about

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rig trials and persecuted victims go unchallenged
from the bully pulpit. It's time to

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fight fire with some constitutional fire.
Of course, Trump being Trump, he'll

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just double down on portraying himself as
the ultimate silence truth teller, with claims

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that Biden is the one disrespecting justice
by attacking his free speech. The man

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does love projecting like an Imax theater. But hey, at least we're set

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to enjoy some good old fashioned partisan
mudslinging over who respects democracy and the rule

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of law more, because that's just
what this country needs. Two elderly men

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bickering about who honors American judicial traditions
better while lobbing vague fascist accusations at each

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other. I know is I certainly
can't wait for the dueling Fourth of July

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address where we get Trump feverishly ranting
about political witch hunts to own the Libs,

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followed immediately by Biden's somberly preaching that
the peaceful transfer of power is more

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important than any one man's grievances.
It'll be a star spangled celebration of American

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polarization like none other, a self
satirizing spectacle of two diametrically opposed realities battling

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for the nation's soul, simply democratic
decorum at its most pathologically dysfunctional. So

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grab your patriotic snacks and get ready
to cringe, folks. The battle over

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narrative framing of Trump's convictions and the
sanctity of the legal system is only just

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beginning to heat up. Gulp down
a cold kofef, and try to appreciate

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the civic melodrama if you can stomach
it. Well well, well, looks

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like the Trump train just picked up
an unexpected passenger, none other than Robert

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F. Kennedy Junior himself. In
a rather eyebrow raising move, the anti

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Vaxx conspiracy theorist turned independent presidential candidate
is now firmly planting himself in Trump's corner

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by decrying his conviction as profoundly undemocratic. You can practically hear the sigh of

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relief from magaland as rfk Junior lends
some counterculture anti establishment cred to Trump's cries

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of partisan persecution, because what better
way to bolster the rigged system narrative than

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having a Kennedy label the whole shebang
an affront to democracy itself. Of course,

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Trump and his acolytes are eating up
the support signal, boosting Kennedy's comments

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about this all just being a dastardly
dem plot to beat Trump in the courtroom

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rather than the ballot box subtle stuff. As always, it's almost comical seeing

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two such diametrically opposed polar opposites find
common cause over mutual legal woes and anti

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system grievances, the clean cut,
ultra wealthy air to American royalty, making

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common alliance with the crassest of wealthy
Charlatans. You really can't make this stuff

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up, though, I suppose in
the upside down world of twenty four politicking,

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the old ap about the enemy of
my enemy reigns supreme over traditional partisan

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boundaries or personal histories of animosity.
Heck, even Trump's past dismissals of Kennedy

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as some radical leftist boogeyman get tossed
out the window now that he needs a

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useful idiot martyr complex reinforcer. And
for Kennedy's part, you can't help but

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see the obvious grift potential in aligning
himself with Trump's persecuted victim cult. Following

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dollar dollar dollar signs are absolutely flashing
before his eyes over the prospect of peeling

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off disaffected MAGA supporters desperate for an
anti establishment folk hero to flock towards.

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Will it actually work in propelling the
former prosecutor towards legitimate spoiler territory or will

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this whole awkward episode just cement RFK
Junior's descent into being a punchline among lucid

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observers. Only time will tell,
but one thing's for sure, the sheer,

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unintentional comedic value of seeing the scion
of Democratic royalty rushed to the defense

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of Donald Freakin Trump cannot be overstated. We may be try in a simulation,

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but at least the writers still have
a sense of humor about just how

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baddy this all is. So,
grab some popcorn and get ready for the

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two ultimate anti vaxers, one a
billionaire businessman, the other a billionaire socialite,

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to take their fringe skeptic show on
the road and hawk their delusional,

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legal rigged narrative to every disaffected corner
of society. It'll be idiocracy meets Game

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of Thrones, with a dash of
Wag the Dog style media manipulation thrown in

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for good measure. Just another day
in the circus tent that American politics has

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become. Portions of today's program were
created with the help of AI, just

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not any of the crazy parts.
Maybe we should just let the computers run

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the show.