31 May—So after the Rotten Apple jury—rather surprisingly, it must be said—found Donald Trump guilty on all 34 counts in less than 12 hours, America’s first criminally convicted ex-president, among other lies he and his followers keep repeating, insisted that he was “a very innocent man.”

Of course Trump was wrong about his innocence. So what else is new? He’s been guilty ever since he popped out of his Scottish-born mommy on Flag Day in 1946. So it’s high time he was convicted of something, anything, though the 34 felonies were stretching things more than a bit. On the other hand, the fed was able to get homicidal gangster Al Capone for a fairly long haul only on tax evasion.

Hard as it is for agnostics and other good people to believe or accept, some—but only some—of Donald Trump’s disciples, admirers, and self-serving sycophants are neither blind nor stupid. Yet they and all the rest of his followers must be incredibly naïve and stubborn, as well as hopeful that their mendacious messiah isn’t nearly as bad as he has shown himself to be throughout his rotten life.

So all the other pending criminal convictions Trump deserves to have heaped upon him won’t make a bloody difference to his base. To the contrary, in fact, think Jesus and his followers. At the very least St. Donald the Martyr now appears to be in a better position to beat St. Joe the Hack than ever before.

(Yes, Hitler and his followers may be a more appropriate analogy, but Hitler wasn’t martyred.)

But very innocent? That’s unacceptable. Like “unique” and “infinite,” among others, “innocent” is what’s known as an absolute adjective. That means it can’t be intensified, diminished, or compared—or modified in any way. There’s no degree of innocence. So St. Donald is either innocent or not innocent, but not very innocent or a little innocent. We’ll go with not innocent. Also known as guilty.

And then there are the pro-Trump riots and associated mayhem that liberals are hoping will break out all over the country, as happened you know when. And then too. Well, they won’t. Because the 6 January 2021 shameful disorder at the U.S. Capitol was a lesson learned the hard way . . .