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I'm pretty sure at this point, Kerry, that Special Counsel Mueller has most of the necessary evidence needed for a money laundering conviction on Trump and other members of his family and campaign.  This article that you're quoting is interesting in that it points to Mueller seeking to understand all of the interrelationships of all the particular players, both foreign and domestic.  I suspect that it is part of a larger effort to understand how the Russians are waging cyber warfare to influence other countries' domestic politics and to develop ways to counter them.

What is known already is that Trump made millions of dollars in Panama by selling condos to drug dealers.  I'd call that money laundering.  I've no hint yet that Mueller has looked into the Panama affair. 

Trump has to be very angry with the British and the Germans.  They are, no doubt, providing information to the FBI and American Intelligence that could put him into very serious legal trouble.  No doubt, he has to view them, and ultimately NATO, as the enemy.   

I wonder if he was trying suck to them in an effort to convince them he doesn't pose a danger to them when he said his mother was born in Scotland and his father in Germany?  Okay, his mother was born in Scotland; but his father most certainly was not born in Germany.   Why does he tell such obvious lies? 

Of course, Putin also lies a lot and almost no one calls him out on it.  Putin was being highly deceptive when he mentioned Bill Browder.  How could he possibly think Trump could decide   Browder should talk to Russian interrogators?  Browder is a British citizen and lives in the UK.   So why would he ask for Trump's help?  And why didn't Trump tell him Browder is a British citizen living in the UK?   I can believe Trump didn't know that, but surely Putin should have. 

[quote}If that link is established, it will be the effective smoking gun to explain a lot of cyber activity on how the Russians influenced the campaign.  I imagine the RNC is not going to be happy about this.  The other candidates trashed by Donald Trump will have to swallow the hard fact that Trump sandbagged them with the help of the Russians.  The Citizens United ruling was never meant to lead to something like this.  [/quote]We live in interesting times. 

I've now completed today the final confrontation part of my Mar a Lago fictional story involving my character Adrian "Mack" Stemple and the President, Donald Trump.  I suspect that I now have built into the story all the major psychological features involving Trump.  It has been quite a task.  Now I have to build the beginning sections and complete the rewrite, the actual process that has to be done to complete the final form of the short story.

I must say that at this point, Trump does not look good in this story.  I've shown very carefully how I believe he was traumatized by what he experienced growing up.  That pain that Trump will have experience will be disturbing to think about.  I've also tried to show how he is not worthy of sympathy because of how he's responded to that pain.  Trump is evil, clearly very evil, and how I've laid out the story will make it all too clear.

I've had Mack Stemple treat the President with compassion but I've done it in a way that could be understandable but may be too much for some people.  I've had my main character put Trump into a compromising situation and show how he likely deals with being compromised.  I also show some of the mental deterioration of the President in the form that I think most likely.  I hope to have this story done by the end of August.

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I've been asked  what my characters look like physically and if they are based on actual living persons.  I would be happy to answer this question.

Clive Edgar Fox, detective from Bozeman, Montana.  He is my oldest character.  I developed him during my junior high school days, some 52 years ago.  He is about 5 feet 9 inches tall; he is obese, a philosophical intellectual, dark hair, roundish face, and dark luminous eyes.  He appears in The River of No Return.  He is based upon an actual much respected person, my junior high school guidance counselor, Mr. Buley.  Mr. Buley's been dead for many years but you could say that a part of him still lives on.

Adrian "Mack" Stemple, psionic whose known address is in Lewistown, Montana.  He is based upon the actor Mark Harmon, not as he is today, but as he was back in the 1990s when the movie "The Presidio" came out.  He is physically much like Mark Harmon in his looks.  He is different in how he moves.  Whereas Mark Harmon is rigid as many Marines are in their bodies, my character's movement and physical deportment is smooth, characteristic of someone who is trained in the martial arts.  I've never brought up an old joke concerning this character, that he was Mark Harmon in disguise.  Perhaps I will do this someday in a story.

In fiction we always build upon what we know.  A writer may not explicitly base a character on a person, but it will always, most likely be a composite of a number of persons.  This is to be expected.  The writer exploits the fact that there are universal qualities that are to be found in all persons and will seek out those qualities that can be represented in stories.  Such is the craft of writing.

^ Yes, it does seem like a turning point.  It's probably safe to switch from the Act II thread over to Act III.   

Any predictions about how Donald will act?  We may see some tantrums from time to time; but he may not have the energy or courage to do much real ranting.   I expect a gloomier Donald, depressed and playing for sympathy.  He may adopt a pathetic pose. 

It would not surprise me if he resigns, citing some illness as his reason, and it could be a real illness. 

He is in fear now.  He reacted to the convictions in the Manafort case but remained silent about the Cohen plea.  I think he's afraid to say too much about it, in court or out.  He admitted he's afraid of a "perjury trap" if he gave evidence under oath. How can you be convicted of perjury if you tell the truth?    If he's in fear now and his emotional state becomes worse under the additional stress, the Scientology model predicts he'll go into grief.   That should get him sympathy. 

I've decided to complete my Mar a Lago story at this point.  The events surrounding Trump are becoming even more chaotic and it will be much more difficult to maintain the necessary story verisimilitude given how Trump is behaving and what he could do as a bolt out of the blue to the entire country.

I will premise the story as occurring in July 2018 at Lake Union and Mar a Lago.  I've built a lot of psychological detail into the story and have put a number of religious themes to the forefront given Love God Only is a religious site.

I will have Trump articulate the reason for his actions.  I will show that he is a victim of great inward trauma as subjected by his cold (and criminal) father.  I will also show that Trump is not a sympathetic person.  He treats people coldly or indifferently if he feels they are enemies or that they are of no use to him.  He has a cruel streak and treats those in his power viciously.  The picture is not good.  There is even more to this but I will leave to the time when I post the story.

I have a suspicion that after September it may be difficult to write a story about Trump.  So much will be going on it will be hard to figure out what is happening and when.  There is also the danger that Trump may become even more lawless.  It will be a time of great worry for the country.  We will need to pray for it and the world.
 

I think stories could be written by combining current news stories with fiction.  If Trump says something nice about someone on the news, the fictional part could have him cursing in private about him.  If Trump presents a confident air in public,  the fictional part could show how he's secretly trembling and worrying.   

That could be done, Kerry, and it could be done satirically.  I think that a recurring character, such as a journalist, might be a good foil to Trump, as well, in the narration of these stories.