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In reply to the discussion: What Trump did when people tried to tell him the law about inauguration spending [View all]calimary
(91,572 posts)He wont want that kind of publicity, or those terrible photos like the one of disgraced televangelist Jim Bakker being dragged out, half sobbing, half collapsing, with big strong lawmen holding him up at the armpits as they walked him toward facing the music.
He doesnt think anything is wrong because this is ALWAYS how hes done business in the private sector - where nobody cared that much and he offered plenty of pop culture amusement and American taxpayers werent personally on the hook for all his expensive misdeeds, manipulations, lies, and corner-cutting.
This is how hes always done business! He was never held accountable before. Tight little family niche business. Nobody cared that much. And there were always bigger fish for the feds to fry. So he could blithely do cameos in movies and TV, and run his mouth off with Howard Stern, and nobody cared. Nobody HAD TO care! Until now.