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The debate last night is hardly worth mentioning.

The moderator was inept, not only in her failure to stop Pence from persistently going past his time limit, but in the inane questions she asked, and in one instance an inappropriate one about whether Pence or Harris had talked to Trump or Biden about dying in office. Really.

Pence came across as a rude televangelist more concerned with style than substance, and Kamala Harris, well, I’m going to say what I suspect most Democrats won’t say. She was a disappointment.

No need to go into detail except to say she came prepared to make her points and in the process missed several chances to effectively refute Pence’s falsehoods.

It doesn’t really matter, though. Vice-presidential debates serve no real purpose and have little bearing on who gets elected president (Sarah Palin being the one exception).

What is worth discussing is how quickly Trump world is imploding right before eyes and how utterly predictable it was, if not inevitable.

The people who knew Trump in New York said he was a corrupt, dishonest man who used the courts to avoid responsibility for numerous multi-million-dollar business failures, that he was nothing but a conman backed by family money he managed to steal from his siblings.

The one thing Trump has never faced before, though, is the one thing that is causing his world to implode – he is now accountable to someone other than himself.

Trump’s company has no board of directors, no stockholders, no one to force him to take responsibility for his actions.

But he does now. He is accountable to the American voters, to us, his efforts to undermine that accountability not-withstanding.

That accountability is now exposing the truth he still cannot face – his failures are all his fault.

The phrase people use ad-nauseam for Trump is, “Trump is going to be Trump.” That is the only thing he has succeeded in doing and it’s the reason he is as bad a President as he has been a businessman.

Trump is nothing if he is not incompetent, to an extent that we see in movies, but seldom see in real life. His book, The Art of the Deal, is as phony as he is, but had the title been, The Art of The Con, it would have been an incredible true story.

Being a conman is also why he contracted the coronavirus.

He played the role of a carnival barker trying to convince us that what we were seeing was not real, that the virus would disappear, and when it didn’t, he then tried to convince us it was a hoax created by Democrats to make him look bad.

Then he played the ultimate con by pretending he was immune to the virus, holding super-spreader events to prove he was right about it being no worse than the common flu.

But the virus had the last word, infecting him and bringing his “con” world down with him.

The pathetic picture of his standing at the top of the stairs at the White House Monday night trying to hide he was having trouble breathing was a perfect picture of just how shallow this man is.

What is more, I think he has now pulled out of the second debate in part because he was disappointed to find out he couldn’t infect Biden with the virus the way he tried to in the first debate.

Too harsh? Think again. Our doctor son who treats virus patients told us last week that based on the fact that Trump was hospitalized on Friday, the timeline for the way the virus works made it likely he had the virus at the debate on Tuesday night.

That is confirmed by the fact that neither Trump nor any of his family came early enough to be tested by the Cleveland Clinic as they were supposed to.

So, yes, I think Trump knew he had the virus the day of the first debate and was hoping he might have a second try at infecting Biden as a last-ditch effort to have a chance to win re-election.

Donald Trump really is that bad a person.

That is why I also believe he is losing control of himself in these last days of the campaign, not least because as his “con” world collapses around him the real world becomes unavoidable.

And that reality is that these may indeed be his last days of being free to do whatever he wants to do. Once he is out of the White House, he may find his travel restricted to keep him from fleeing prosecution for his crimes.

He may see any financial assets he is holding seized to prevent him from liquidating them.

He may face foreclosures on some of his properties.

He may in fact see himself unable to escape what goes around coming around to bite him so that instead of Hillary Clinton being locked up, he is going to be.

Any and all of this together might be enough to drive Trump over the edge and that may be what we are seeing in his erratic words and behavior over the last few days.

Or maybe it’s just the steroids kicking in.

Either way, Trump world is falling down and the man in charge is about to face a harsh, new reality that at some point in life people do reap what they sow and pay the consequences for believing they never would.