6 October—As long as we’re dreaming about Donald Trump behind bars (where, as we all know, he has deserved to be for half a century), here’s the last sentence of an Associated Press story from 27 September about the New York State attorney general’s civil suit against him, his organization, and his three eldest spoiled brats, what NYS AG Letitia James’s spinners called the Art of the Steal:

“In an interview Wednesday night with Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity, Trump suggested that his company had protected itself against possible fraud allegations by warning banks and potential business partners not to trust the information in its financial disclosures.”

You may want to read that again.

Not having seen the Hannity interview—I don’t even know Fox News Channel’s number on the cable box—I can’t confirm that Trump said anything like that, but I’ll take AP’s word for it, if only because it can in theory be substantiated.

To make it clear, then, Trump actually admitted—more likely, he boasted—that in order to protect himself against fraud allegations, he admitted to committing fraud. Go figure. Keep in mind that the incomparable scumbag had copped the Fifth almost 450 times during James’s deposition, testifying—admitting—only to his name (which, in Trump’s defense, some Mafiosi haven’t even done). But on a television program viewed by probably millions of people he admits to being a crook.

Keep in mind, too, that not only had Trump copped the Fifth in a civil—not a criminal—proceeding, but he’d previously gone on record as asserting that doing it implied the copper, as it were, was in fact guilty. Absolutely and positively, even though it’s not supposed to be inferred.

Granted, most of the people watching Hannity’s program would worship Trump as the messiah even if he boasted about committing heinous crimes against humanity, like his Russian and Chinese pals, for instance. But still, do normal, intelligent people admit to committing fraud—even to friends?

Or can it be, as I’ve suggested more than once, that Trump is subtly laying the groundwork for his defense against the plethora of criminal charges that he should and will be facing if there’s anything like justice in America? While he certainly shouldn’t be able to get off simply because he was the president or because he has an imbecilic following that’s shown it would be delighted to violently overthrow a legitimate government for its Drecksack Führer, he’d be able to get off, perhaps even avoid prosecution, if he’s delusional or otherwise crazy—not to mention demonstrably stupid . . .