Michael Cohen - The Lines Trump Can't Redraw

Let me tell you something I learned the hard way at Donald Trump’s side: hypocrisy isn’t a character flaw in Trumpworld; it’s a governing philosophy. It’s the blood type, the operating system, the oxygen they breathe in those backrooms where strategy is just weaponized grievance with a press release.

So when Pam Bondi’s Justice Department— or should I say Donald’s Justice Department—decided to sue California for its newly approved congressional maps, my first thought wasn’t shock. It was déjà vu. Because this lawsuit isn’t about civil rights, or race, or constitutional purity. It’s about the one thing Donald wakes up thinking about every morning: how to tilt the board, mark the deck, and stack the odds before the game even starts.

Here’s the setup. California voters—actual people, participating in democracy, casting ballots like the Constitution says they should—approved Proposition 50 with 64% of the vote. Not a squeaker. Not a coin flip. A landslide. The measure allows the state to redraw its congressional map to counter the magic trick Republicans pulled in Texas, where Governor Greg Abbott and his legislature carved out Trump-friendly districts behind closed doors with all the subtlety of a machete. No ballot measure. No voter approval. Just pure partisan willpower wrapped in procedural latex gloves.

Trump cheered Texas on, of course. He urged them to “rework the maps,” which is his polite way of saying “make them redder than a MAGA rally hat.” And Texas obliged, drawing lines that civil rights advocates immediately flagged as toxic to minority representation. The DOJ—this same DOJ—sent Abbott a sternly worded letter expressing “serious concerns” about the legality of several districts. But did they sue? Of course not. Because in Trump’s America, illegality is not the issue. Disobedience is.

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