Waiting for the end

| 6:00 pm EDT August 2, 2023
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Donald Trump has been indicted. So many emotions are going through me right now, as I’m sure they are for you as well. And it makes me wonder. I wonder. I wonder were Shakespeare alive today, would he write a play perhaps, a play about what is going on in politics today?

Much of what’s going on is Shakespearean in nature. The fall of a political party — due to actions of their own making — the indictments of a traitor — yes, I think this is something that would interest Shakespeare.

A play would open — a colorful, magnificently written play would mesmerize playgoers everywhere. Who would play Donald Trump, I wonder? However, I do believe Shakespeare would wait — wait until something happened to make the play complete. Wait for the end.

It’s coming. Trump now has the honor of being a TRIPLE indictee. Soon it will be four. Yes, at some point, there will be an end to all this. Who knows when it will happen? It will be after all the indictments are in and all of the trials are complete. That will signal – the end of the Trump drama- the end of a tragic story that has consumed the American people for years now.

Now Shakespeare’s plays — they usually do not have happy endings. And neither will the ending of the Trump play. Because, in reality, there are only a few ways this can end.

Ending one: Trump is found guilty of ALL the charges. He is sentenced to prison.

Ending number two — Trump is found guilty of only SOME of the charges. He is sentenced to prison.

Ending number three — Trump is found guilty of only ONE charge. He is sent to prison.

You see, my friends, even ONE charge — even merely one — will be enough to merit prison time. There is little to no chance of trump being found not guilty of ALL the charges. So the ending — the denouement — can only really have one direction — that direction is a cell.

And though Shakespeare is not with us, I would venture to guess there are others — other brilliant playwrights, historians, and writers, others who are observing — watching quietly from behind the wings — waiting to put pen to paper. They wait to tell the story — the tragedy of one man — a traitor who will go down in history as one of the worst monsters of them all.