by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I’m currently working on a six novel project that first started several years ago because of a Trump mystery. I won’t get into the details of it because it’s all a lulz now, but let’s just say at the core of the mystery was the suspicion that Trump paid for a former Playboy model to have an abortion.
It turns out that even though everything pointed to Trump doing this he did not, in fact, do it. It was a very spooky incident that not only lingered in my mind for years, but was the specific event that started the long ago process of writing a novel that has me where I am today with the project.
Anyway. The implication of the mystery was, of course, that if we could only prove that Trump paid for and force a woman to have an abortion then, by definition, we would be done with him. He would have resigned in disgrace, at last because his Evangelical support would evaporate and our Long National Nightmare would be, at last, over. Pence would be our new Ford and we would have all be waiting for a Jimmy Carter-type figure to come out of the South to start the 50 year political cycle up again.
Ha. We were such idiots.
The reason — Herschel Walker has inadvertently proven that we were all very, very delusional. Even if we had absolute proof that Trump did what we suspected….nothing would have happened to him. In the end, Trump would be defeated not because of any character flaw but by a combination of pandemic and Mike Pence doing the bare minimum of his job on January 6th.
Trump is above both criminal law and moral law. He’s nearly a demigod. There is literally nothing the man can do at this point that would change anyone’s mind one way or another. Everything — for both sides — is baked into the cake when it comes to Trump.
So. Good luck. It’s autocracy, civil war or military junta between now and spring 2025.
