The first domino falls in court for Donald Trump

 “If you look over the last million years, that’s what’s been largely true of the stars — unfortunately or fortunately.”---Donald Trump.

"Those who fail to remember history are condemned to repeat it."---George Santayana.

It doesn't matter if you're a captain of industry, as Trump was, or a pop culture legend, like Bill Cosby, in the 21st century, the famous are being held accountable for sexual assault and/or harassment against women.

Cosby did his time. His career was destroyed.

Harvey Weinstein did time.

Jeffrey Epstein died in his prison cell.

Television producer Andrew Kreigsberg, along with Weinstein, found out the hard way that the "casting couch" hiring system in Hollywood is no more.

England's Prince Andrew was irretrievably disgraced, and stripped of his royal duties.

And, now, Trump joins this list, after a NY civil jury found him liable for sexually assaulting advice columnist and former cable personality E. Jean Carroll at Burgdorf Goodman sometime in the 90's. Trump also was found liable for defamation, which may be a sign of things to come in other cases that are pending against him. It's widely believed that Trump will appeal the verdict, but there should be no appeal. Even after the verdict was read some 2 or so hours ago, he's still in denial, claiming on Truth Social that he "doesn't know" Carroll. This says otherwise:

Online commentators are in agreement that Trump will grift his base in order to raise the money, because he's too cheap to pay it himself out of his own pocket. However, this is just the first domino falling against Trump, who still has to answer for allegations that he tried to strongarm Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to find non-existent votes after the 2020 election, as well as additional cases in NY & Washington, DC, the former of which figures to begin trial in early 2024.

Trump destroyed his own professional reputation prior to becoming president, when he let his inner bigot loose to cater to the suburban voters. Now, it would appear that his chances of gaining the GOP nomination in 2024 took a massive hit, one he's not going to recover from.