It would be absolutely delightful to watch Trump throw his own offspring under the bus to save his own skin.
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Or in the Central Park 5 case.
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It’s the formula: poor and Black, “adult” at 10. Rich and white, “adult” at… never.
I mean, during the 2016 campaign, people were trying to give Trump himself a pass for things he said “when he was younger” - you know, like when he was 65.
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If wealth insulates the wealthy from consequences [of their own actions], and if people like Barr (or TFG) make such ludicrous and very public claims about how wealthy adult children cannot be expect to think etc., this tells me a few things about their Welt:
- it’s not a meritocracy
- it will rot if there is not continual one-way injections of money and privilege
- they are highly dependent on people who will either do thinking or labor (including protection) for them
- those people who do the thinking or labor for them are in positions of power in many ways
We should be looking at the structures keeping such people entrenched inside their plutokleptocracy.
By the time the natural consequences are fully experienced in a meaningful way by the majority of humans currently in positions to make necessary changes, we will all be living on a dead planet.
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It’s not about his personal finances (though his personal finances are almost entirely dependent on his business finances). Trump has long made fraudulent misrepresentations about the nature of his businesses and business assets (values of properties, size of properties, number of units sold in properties, etc.) - and his kids have been caught also making the same blatant lies in tax statements, loan applications and in trying to make sales (each its own offense), often independently of daddy’s fraudulent misrepresentations.
Weird how these kinds of rich people who believe in a meritocracy make excellent arguments that it’s the reverse - a kakistocracy - in that apparently the people in these positions are actually the least capable and it’s somehow unreasonable to expect them to be anything else…
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Even Melania infantilized him to downplay his culpability over the Access Hollywood tape scandal:
“It’s kind of two teenage boys — actually they should behave better, right?” she said to Anderson Cooper on CNN as he interrupted her to say the real-estate mogul was 59 at the time of the 2005 tape. “Correct. I sometimes have said I have two boys at home: I have my young son, and I have my husband.”
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I mean, he’s not wrong. They can’t.
But in a legal system that’s willing to kill mentally disabled people, that’s no reason why they shouldn’t be fined into a smoking crater and forbidden from “running” businesses in future.
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Whether he does or not I assume depends on if he thinks he might need a liver or a kidney anytime soon
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I thought in those cases that there were psychiatric evaluations before making those statements? I’m sure that the Trumps could pay for a psychiatrist to declare that they aren’t responsible, but I doubt that they will want the consequences of that diagnosis.
Hint: With prison you have a release date that you know in advance. In a psych ward, you are only released when the doctors believe that you have recovered.
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You’re assuming too much. He has a letter from Dr. Ronny Jackson assuring everyone he’ll live to at least 200. He’s the healthiest handsomest President there’s ever been.
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Telekinesis side effect for sure.
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Correct. They each were Executive Vice Presidents at the company, and trustees.
If that level of leadership can’t be held accountable, we are truly lost. 
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I’d take that job… then try very hard not to lose them in some bizarre mind-bending manner.
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Ah, the blameless children of the rich.
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Put 'em in the basement.
10 years later
Am I forgetting something?
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I’m holding out for the criminal charges that are (hopefully) soon to follow. As it stands, this civil suit will likely end with a large fine and a few folks unable to own or hold certain positions within a NY company.
The fines will be paid via the suckers who donated money to Trump. A new company will be formed and it will be helmed by members of the family who are not on the debarment list. All assets will be bought by the new company for pennies and the grift will move on. At least that is how it sometimes works when mafia members are debarred in this way.
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This is about the Trump Organization, and each of the Trump kids listed were officers in that company. So, yeah, they are legally culpable and so they should be.
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Did he call them “millenials” yet?
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Agreed.
I think the kakistocracy’s cultivation of that myth of meritocracy is a key part of their narrative to their enablers, and I include people who vote for the kaks. I truly believe that the unveiling of the kak’s totally bs narrative (i.e. that they are entitled what they claim to deserve bc merit/reason) is gonna destabilize a lot of people whose mental circumstances require that bs narrative to be true, or as Terence McKenna once said, “true enough.”
You and I and most people posting on the bbs already know that the kak’s claim that they are a meritocracy is utter bs.
I remember in The Before Times a moment where Ira Glass asks his aunt, who was at the time in some sober elevated financial professional position, about money. “What is money? Is is real?” (to be read in that head-voice-of-Ira-Glass please)
IIRC, he then said his aunt kinda chuckled and said something like “oh Ira, you know it’s all just made up!” … or words to that effect.
(how fitting that like TFG’s many claims, money–something he worships so ardently–is itself fiction)
TFG and his kind are marketeers. Manipulators. Pullers of strings that twiddle people’s internal states. (Sheeesh we’re talking about him right now–seriously, WTF? ugh! why do I allow these sorts to live in my head rent-free? WTF again?) Profiteers. And part of what they sell–AFAICT–is the alluring glamour that if people would just do what he does, they would all be living a super-awesome-deluxe lifestyle just like he does. A lifestyle so hollow, so pathetic, so superficial and filled with backstabbers and under-the-bus-throwers, so venal and predatory that I frankly would not wish that crap on my worst enemy.
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I never got the impression the Trump family made much of a distinction between “The Trump Organization,” their various fake charities, or their personal bank accounts 
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