con job

Trump is building on the same con job and, with his various interviews with masculinity influencers, tapping the same audience.

The con job was, he thinks, “no more than a practical joke, really. Good clean sport.”

Trump’s mutterings during the proceedings — “it is a witch hunt” and “it really is a con job” — came while the jury was in the courtroom.

In a Jan. 27 campaign visit to Las Vegas, Trump urged supporters to skip the primary entirely, describing it as a “con job” and a “meaningless event.”

If they had any doubts about Trump, they could simply look over at the defense table—his loudly whispered asides that it was a con job when the evidence was so clearly to the contrary; his grimaces; the frequent reprimands he and his counsel drew from the judge; and, perhaps worst of all, Trump walking out of court in the middle of Carroll lawyer Robbie Kaplan’s closing arguments.