3 October—Let’s give Donald Trump credit where it’s due. Only where it’s due, mind you. In addition to being a superlative con man and charismatic demagogue (although he’s really a lousy off-the-cuff speaker), he has gigantic brass balls. He’d insist they were gold, of course.

Trump personifies chutzpah in the extreme. Arrogant, brazen, egocentric, vain, overconfident, overbearing, presumptuous, holier-than-thou, above-the-law, my-way-or-the-highway, take-no-prisoners, I’ll-fuck-you-if-you-don’t-kiss-my-ass, sociopathic—probably psychopathic—chutzpah.

Trump doubtless inherited his self-important mindset, god complex, and ruthless chutzpah (they all go together), along with lots of real estate and ill-got money, from his equally maleficent albeit rather less ostentatious father. And young Donald’s narcissistic maleficence was groomed, refined, and polished by Roy Cohn, a brilliant but incredibly evil lawyer and human being (assuredly not to be confused with Michael Cohen, Trump’s journeyman fixer and toady).

We all take Donald Trump’s antisocial chutzpah for granted, along with his outrageous behavior at the best of times. So why am I bringing it up now? Well, I only just came across a story from a fortnight ago about Trump’s latest comment on the felonious phone call he made on 2 January 2021 to intimidate Georgia’s Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, into “finding” 11,780 votes in the 2020 presidential election to overcome Joe Biden’s electoral advantage in that state. Find 11,780 votes just like that. Did I say that Trump was delusional, too?

I’m not going to rehash Trump’s conference call to Georgia, in which he was joined by eight toadies while Raffensperger had only his general counsel. I’ll just say, what Trump did was clearly criminal at both state and federal levels and I’m incredulous that he hasn’t been indicted yet. At least by the U.S. Department of Justice.

(On the other hand, why hasn’t Attorney General Merrick Garland’s DOJ done anything about the pro-Roe people who terrorized the anti-Roe SCOTUS justices? Fair is fair, after all. Justice shouldn’t be a partisan matter and must be seen to be done. Yeah, right.)

So the former scumbag-in-chief boasted a couple of weeks ago that it was “an absolutely perfect phone call.” That’s right, an absolutely perfect phone call because he did absolutely nothing wrong in the very least but was absolutely worried about voter fraud. It’s entirely possible, given his dysfunctional, delusional psyche, that Trump really did assume any vote not cast for him was indeed fraudulent.

You really have to hand it to him. Donald Trump is never wrong. Just ask him. And he’s a past master at turning everything but everything to his slimy advantage anyway.

I hope I’m wrong, but wait and see . . .