No. of Recommendations: 14
"Because it's enormously beneficial for him. It makes him popular with his voters, which maintains his political power within the GOP."
While this is certainly true, there are other reasons for Trump to continue with his obviously illegal actions, lawsuits, and executive orders. One of his strategies is to flood the zone with shit. This accomplishes two things:
1. It inures voters to his corruption. There is so much shit in the news that voters become immune to being shocked by it. Every day there is a new story about his corruption and his court cases that it becomes harder and harder to keep it all straight. When selling Teslas on the White House lawn doesn't even break into the top 500 of the worst things he has done since taking the Oval Office, voters tune it out. They begin to lose the ability to tell the difference between real serious stuff (like masked men grabbing people off of the street and throwing them in foreign prisons without due process) and the run of the mill minor stuff (like the Tesla stuff) that might take down a lessor politician who didn't flood the zone with so much shit. Voters are so accustomed to hearing about another Trump court case every single day they tune it out. It all becomes background noise.
2. When the zone is flooded with so much shit, some of it gets through. For example, his lawsuit against Paramount (the owner of CBS). Trump is shaking down Summer Redstone (majority owner of Paramount) who wants to merge Paramount with Skydance. If Trump's lawsuit (over CBS editing an interview of Kamala Harris) ever went to court, he would lose in a heartbeat. His suit would be laughed out of court. Paramount knows it would win; however Paramount also knows if they fight it, they will never get federal approval to merge with Skydance. Trump would block it. So Paramount is trying to settle out of court. Give Trump his bribe and let the merger go through. There has been some reporting on the story, but not a whole lot. It has been drowned out by all of the other shit and the news cannot cover it all. It is blatantly corrupt and if any other presidential candidate did what Trump is doing it would dominate the news every single day and Republicans would have investigated it a dozen times and impeached him already. But it doesn't cost Trump anything (his lawsuit was when he is a candidate so his lawyers are all paid by political doners) and it could net him tens of millions of dollars in bribe money.
