Where will Defendant Trump store his new boxes of anxiety?
Inside the Xanax room at Bedminster
You can’t see Defendant Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, from I-78. You take exit 26 and turn right on Rattlesnake Bridge Road, and then less than a mile later and you take a right on Lamington Road and you go about another mile before you take your third right onto the grounds of what is known as Trump National Golf Course Bedminster. Just before you reach Exit 26, a row of trees screens off three holes of the Trump golf course. It’s so close, you could throw a Coke can out of your car window and hit Trump Trail, running alongside the course between the interstate and one of the club’s fairways.
It’s 48 miles, most of it on I-78 West, from downtown New York City, and a little less from Newark Airport if Defendant Trump’s lawyers are flying up from Florida, out to Defendant Trump’s Bedminster golf club where he spends his summers. Defendant Trump’s lawyers are going to get very familiar with the three right hand turns off Exit 26 as they drive out to meet with their client over the next weeks and months about the trove of evidence the Department of Justice turned over to the defense this week. In fact, Defendant Trump is probably going to have to ask his co-Defendant, Walt Nauta, to find yet another place to store all the boxes from the Department of Justice (DOJ.) He’s not going to want them anywhere near his residence this time.
Just this sentence, taken from the first page of the “Government’s Response to the Standing Discovery Order,” filed on Wednesday with the District Court of South Florida, contains nightmares a-plenty for Defendant Trump: “The first part includes, inter alia, documents obtained via subpoena; evidence obtained via search warrants; transcripts of grand jury testimony taken before a grand jury in the District of Columbia and transcripts of grand jury testimony taken before a grand jury in the Southern District of Florida; and memorialization of witness interviews conducted through May 12, 2023.”
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He seems to have gone to another plane. He thinks he aced that interview with Baier that the rest of the world who watched it thinks was just a whole lot more confessional evidence for Prosecutor Smith and the upcoming trial. But he's looking stressed. He'll probably feel better after tonight with the Evangelicals and their laying on of hands. I'm still wondering about what's in the grave with Ivana.
For Trump to take plea would require a lot of admitting I would think. Confession doesn’t seem high on his list of abilities. Lying yes, truthing no.