What goes around鈥�
Last week, the lead-up to Donald Trump蘑菇视频 New York arraignment may have caused a record for breathless speculation.
A squadron of reporters followed Trump蘑菇视频 motorcade out of Mar-a-Lago as it wound its way to Palm Beach International Airport.
Reporters and anchors around the planet engaged in rhetorical tap dancing about the importance of the next day 鈥� for the thousandth time!
Cameras were poised to get a glimpse of Mr. Trump as he boarded 鈥淭rump Force One鈥� 鈥� all 10 seconds of it.
That melodrama was repeated at LaGuardia Airport in New York after Trump landed.
What followed looked eerily similar to what happened on June 17, 1994, the day of O.J. Simpson蘑菇视频 鈥渓ow-speed chase鈥� along the highways of Los Angeles.
There were helicopters (or drones) hovering overhead, as if they鈥檇 capture real breaking news. Perhaps there would be a flat tire on a freeway 鈥� right on live TV.
By the time Trump reached Trump Tower, and with news anchors growing hoarse in their repetitiveness, he finally emerged from his vehicle 鈥� for three whole seconds.
That蘑菇视频 it.
I can鈥檛 say I didn鈥檛 watch any of it. I can say I kicked myself because I did.
I鈥檓 guessing, though, that some people might have enjoyed every second of it.
The 鈥淐entral Park Five鈥� may have been ecstatic about Trump getting hauled into court.
In May of 1989, Trump took out a full-page ad in the New York Times, aimed at the five black teenagers who were wrongfully charged with rape, robbery, and attempted murder. That ad, in part, said, 鈥淭hey should be forced to suffer and, when they kill, they should be executed for their crimes.鈥�
Even after those young men were exonerated, Trump refused to acknowledge it.
I wonder if Hillary and Bill Clinton are interested in Trump蘑菇视频 entanglements.
Trump has implied that the Clintons had something to do with the murder of Deputy White House Counsel Vince Foster. And during his 2016 presidential campaign, he coined the phrase 鈥淐rooked Hillary.鈥�
Do you think Barack Obama is taking note of Trump蘑菇视频 legal problems?
After all, it was Trump who was the leading voice of 鈥渂irtherism.鈥�
And in June of 2016, it was Trump who implied that Obama was somehow involved in that mass shooting at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida, in which 49 people died.
Trump蘑菇视频 arraignment and trial might not be much of a spectacle to many people. But I鈥檇 be willing to wager other people are licking their chops with each new legal development.
In June of 2019, AXIOS published an article about 鈥淭he 24 times Trump has accused somebody of 鈥榯reason.'鈥�
As a federal offense, the penalty for treason is death. Mr. Trump蘑菇视频 solution for some people who oppose him is death.
There蘑菇视频 that federal judge back in 2016 who was presiding over the fraud case against Trump University who was attacked by Trump most callously.
Judge Gonzalo Curiel had to sit by while Trump called him a 鈥渉ater,鈥� and somebody who was unfair to him because he was 鈥淗ispanic,鈥� a 鈥淢exican,鈥� and because Trump was building a wall.
That was in 2016.
Trump settled the lawsuits in 2018, with Indiana-born Judge Curiel awarding the victims $25 million.
What goes around comes around.
Trump appears to be on some mighty thin ice with some of his most recent attacks. The man who is hauling him into court is Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
I鈥檓 not going to claim I鈥檓 much of a theoretician here, but it probably didn鈥檛 help Trump when he called Bragg (who happens to be Black) 鈥渁n animal,鈥� with all of the historic baggage that insult carries with it.
Or, when he implied that Bragg is beholden to Jewish billionaire philanthropist George Soros.
鈥淗e is a Soros-backed animal who just doesn鈥檛 care about right or wrong no matter how many people are hurt,鈥� said Trump.
Take note when you see Trump or his fervent supporters complain that he蘑菇视频 being picked on unfairly.
You can always refer them to this statement: What goes around comes around!
Edward A. Owens is a multi-Emmy Award winner, former reporter, and anchor for Entertainment Tonight, and 50-year TV news and newspaper veteran. E-mail him at freedoms@bellatlantic.net.