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The thing is: the guy doesn’t want to do the job. He doesn’t read security briefings, doesn’t pay attention in meetings. He had a unified congress in the first two years and barely got anything done. No long-term planning, just sugar-high tax cuts. He just enjoys the title and authority that comes with it. To him, it’s just a competition to beat the Democrats.
I don't think it is even The Democrats
It is Obama for ribbing him (after all the accusations of being an illegal immigrant...). Hilary for being a woman. And Biden for clearly and definitively beating the shit out of him in every single interaction (watching trump "back down" during their debate when Biden thought he heard an attack on Beau is beautiful).
Actually, he's trying to stay out of prison now.
And avoid having to pay judgements. He doesn't want to pay a single penny toward the various suits he's losing, he wants to keep them eternally in progress if he can by submitting bonds and then appealing.
Look at the Carroll judgements. Not that this is any kind of definitive evidence, but he just defamed E. Jean Carroll again even as he is waiting for bond approval from that judge after losing the second trial. Here it is a bit more clearly worded from the NYTimes:
Lol, that's what his strategy is to avoid post-litigation payout forever: keep offending, losing, bonding out and appealing. Lather, rinse, repeat, make his heirs pay up if there's anything left.
(archive link to NYT article)
Every new case is a new case, it has no effect on the timeline for decided cases. Of course, I don't expect Trump to understand that.
It can, if his lawyers plead it and the judge is accommodating. His lawyers have absolutely motioned in the past for a specific judge's planned schedule to be changed to accommodate another judge's planned schedule, and that to not do so would present an undue hardship. He generally gets these delays, on the whole.