Contempt of…Everything

I’m just a plainspoken Colorado criminal defense lawyer, but the way I see it…

Donald Trump has been found in contempt of court — in just his current criminal trial — ten times now.

Of course he has: contempt is his go-to, perhaps his only, real emotion.

In his first speech as President of the United States, he uttered his contempt for the country that elected him, coloring ours a nation in carnage.

He’s shown lifelong contempt for women, verbally and physically abusing them at will. Nominating Supreme Court Justices whose only qualification for him is that they believe women ought not have dominion over their own bodies.

Lifelong contempt for our military, buying his way as a youth out of personally serving with them, and when Commander in Chief calling those who died for their country — your friends and family and mine — suckers and losers.

Contempt for the poor: only the rich qualify to be his vice president — look at the lapdogs he calls to the stage with him, to the courtroom with him.

Contempt for democracy: how else can you describe a president who engineers an insurrection, steals his country’s secrets, would suspend whatever parts of the Constitution that annoy him, and proclaims that if reelected he will be dictator on day one?

Contempt, above all, for the rule of law, his whole adult life spent with middle finger raised to every concept of justice that dare attempt penetrate a brain somehow frozen in development at middle school.

So that Trump can call a judge, who has done everything he can to avoid properly jailing his sorry sorry ass, a railroading highly conflicted crooked and corrupt Trump hater.

And why has this judge done for this person what he would never have done for any other? Not because he thinks Donald Trump the man deserves better treatment — no one who has ever known Donald Trump honestly believes that. But because he has something Donald Trump had four years to find and never found.

Respect for the office of the presidency of the United States.