Two huge gut-punches for Trump today. Expectation of which, combined with the imminent testimony from Mueller, may be one of the drivers behind his attention-grabbing tweets (that, and he's an unabashed, incorrigible racist).
1. Background documents from the Cohen trial released today show that Trump was way deeper into the Stormy Daniels hush money payments than he was her vajayjay; and
B. Jeffrey Epstein was denied bail, meaning that he will likely never spend another day in his life not in jail, unless he rolls over and squeals like the baby he is expected to be.
With regard to 1., it implicates all those around him you would expect, including Hope Hicks, but significantly it continued beyond the election and into his time as President.
With regard to B., there are many, many, rich, powerful and famous men who are shitting themselves over this. The collective flushing of toilets in Manhattan executive suites alone may have caused a sewer back up. We are going to be not stunned by the identity of many of these men as they are revealed (Trump, Dershowitz etc.), but there are going to be some that will be shocking and saddening.
The UK went through this a few years back when the English equivalent of Dick Clark - Jimmy Savile - shortly after his death was found out to have been a prolific and disgusting sexual predator of children, with a penchant for somnophilia and necrophilia. Also, he was literally adjacent to many of the killings of the Yorkshire Ripper, whom he visited repeatedly in prison after his capture; believed to be an act of altruism at the time, the unlikely friendship took on a frightening new meaning.
As the investigation delved into Savile's horrendous, life-long sex crime spree, it turned out that he, a long time BBC Radio DJ, was the king pin in a ring of paedophiles working in entertainment, particularly in BBC radio and television. It seemed that each week a new favorite from my past as a child was outed as one of these evil men. It got so bad that when I saw a headline that had the name of famed TV astronomer Sir Patrick Moore in it, I was relieved to find that he had died, rather than been added to the list.
However, justice is justice. Evil men are evil men, whether or not they were entertaining or somehow important in between committing sex crimes. It will be bad, but it's all for the greater good.