Will my restaurant burn down if I don’t pay Paulie and Petey the protection money on time?
By 
Oh I dunno, it’s hard to say. It depends on a lot of things. We’ll just have to wait and see. But you know it would be a lot better if you found the money. Because then we wouldn’t have to worry about these sorts of questions. I mean wouldn’t that be better for everybody?
Time: Mr. President, in our last conversation you said you weren’t worried about political violence in connection with the November election. You said, “I think we’re going to win and there won’t be violence.” What if you don’t win, sir?
Trump: Well, I do think we’re gonna win. We’re way ahead. I don’t think they’ll be able to do the things that they did the last time, which were horrible. Absolutely horrible. So many, so many different things they did, which were in total violation of what was supposed to be happening. And you know that and everybody knows that. We can recite them, go down a list that would be an arm’s long. But I don’t think we’re going to have that. I think we’re going to win. And if we don’t win, you know, it depends. It always depends on the fairness of an election. I don’t believe they’ll be able to do the things that they did the last time. I don’t think they’ll be able to get away with it. And if that’s the case, we’re gonna win in record-setting fashion.
Meanwhile:
New York Judge Juan Merchan has fined former President Donald Trump for repeatedly violating the gag order in the hush money trial.
Trump must also remove the seven “offending posts” from Truth Social and the two “offending posts” from his campaign website by 2:15 p.m. ET Tuesday.
Merchan ruled Trump violated the gag order nine times for criticizing expected trial witnesses in posts on social media and his campaign page. Trump must pay the $9,000 fine by the end of the week.
Merchan also threatened incarceration if Trump willfully violates the gag order again, writing in his ruling, “THEREFORE, Defendant is hereby warned that the Court will not tolerate continued willful violations of its lawful orders and that if necessary and appropriate under the circumstances, it will impose an incarceratory punishment.”
Trump did not visibly react as the judge was reading his decision in court.
Trying to game out what this increasingly out of control sociopathic narcissist is going to do is no doubt a fool’s errand, but I can’t help but wonder if somewhere in the feral recesses of what passes for his mind he’s considering whether a few days in the pokey might help heighten Bolshevik revolutionary tempos among the MAGATS.
Speaking of Lennon: