Fait Accompli, self-evident fact; for Trump himself, now a grim reality?

Question: When then President Trump learned of the appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller in May 2017, what did he immediately declare?

Answer: On May 17, 2017, he exclaimed, "I'm FUCKED!"  Trump broke down and cursed upon learning of the special counsel's appointment: 'This is terrible. This is the end of my Presidency.'

Question: Did then President Trump accept what he instinctively knew at that time to be true?

Answer: Clearly, he did not. 

Side note: It has been more than SIX years since May 2017.

Question: What word best characterizes, in the least common denominator, how Trump has reacted to efforts to hold him accountable to the rule of law over that six years?

Answer: Obfuscation.

• noun The act or process of obfuscating, or obscuring the perception of something; the concept of concealing the meaning of a communication by making it more confusing and harder to interpret.

• noun Confusion, bewilderment, or a baffled state resulting from something obfuscated, or made more opaque and muddled with the intent to obscure information.

• noun A single instance of intentionally obscuring the meaning of something to make it more difficult to grasp.

See Firehose of Falsehoods, as previously cited in the Arizona Eagletarian. 

Question: How many lies, during his administration, did Trump publicly tell?

Answer: 

When The Washington Post Fact Checker team first started cataloguing President Donald Trump’s false or misleading claims, we recorded 492 suspect claims in the first 100 days of his presidency. On Nov. 2 alone, the day before the 2020 vote, Trump made 503 false or misleading claims as he barnstormed across the country in a desperate effort to win reelection.

This astonishing jump in falsehoods is the story of Trump’s tumultuous reign. By the end of his term, Trump had accumulated 30,573 untruths during his presidency — averaging about 21 erroneous claims a day.

What is especially striking is how the tsunami of untruths kept rising the longer he served as president and became increasingly unmoored from the truth.

Trump averaged about six claims a day in his first year as president, 16 claims day in his second year, 22 claims day in this third year — and 39 claims a day in his final year. Put another way, it took him 27 months to reach 10,000 claims and an additional 14 months to reach 20,000. He then exceeded the 30,000 mark less than five months later.

The only way to deal with bluster and obfuscation is to keep hammering at the facts and spelling out their implications.

FACT: Trump's cacophony is becoming increasingly unhinged, less coherent, and fortunately, corporate media which had been amplifying said auditory chaos ever since January 6, 2021, seems to be paying less attention, figuratively turning down the volume recently.

Because Trump's megaphone is rapidly losing energy, and because of increasing numbers of researchers, pundits, and politicians speaking up and speaking out against the wannabe dictator, the Arizona Eagletarian concludes Trump's self-fulfilling prophecy declared in May 2017, is now virtually a Fait Accompli. For him, a grim reality and self-evident fact.