The Dodgers
In most ways, this is minor and egregiously common, but it's too "perfect" to let slide through the cracks. So, bear with me.
Yesterday, the Los Angeles Dodgers had a ceremony at the White House with Trump, honoring their winning the World Series last year. Team owner Mark Walters presented Trump with gifts, which is traditional. He also gave Trump a World Series ring -- which is not.
My immediate thought, as Trump marveled at his shiny toy as if he was now a big boy and was a world champeen, was that the blatant cravenness by corporate billionaires towards the infantile, needy Trump is sickening and pathetic, but so common that it would almost be shocking if one didn't suck up to him.
I mean, for god's sake, it's the Dodgers. They're not going anywhere. What on earth would the team want from Trump? Federal Trade Commission approval to move back to Brooklyn?
But that was only my immediate thought. Because then another thought kicked in, and I checked it out. And...of course, yes. Of course.
From USA Today:
"U.S. prosecutors in Manhattan are investigating potential financial improprieties at two insurance companies controlled by Mark Walter and at Guggenheim Partners, where he is chief executive officer, Bloomberg reported Monday afternoon, citing people with knowledge of the matter and regulatory filings. The Securities and Exchange Commission is running a parallel investigation."
Of course!!
A nice, shiny juju. That should do the trick with Trump. It does with with everyone else.
And in the bright open air for everyone to see the grift. All that was missing was Trump saying he would have been the greatest baseball player ever, except that he unfortunately had bone spurs that was so bad it kept him out of the draft.
Though not unexpected, it was none the less too perfect. Trying to get out of a criminal indictment. From from one dodger to another.
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