Made for TV

Doesn't it seem as if you're watching a TV show that you yourself are writing?

The main character you've created is being attacked by anonymous whistleblowers.

The cruel authorites will not let him use his emoluments clause. They beat him with fake news and fake newsprint!

Every stone is being thrown at him, and then another stone for good measure. 

The Governor of the State in which your main character had his legal residence for years says, "Good riddance," when your main character decides to move his residence to another state for tax purposes. You think this is kind of cruel but that it's also a verbal punishment that seems to fit the crime, and leave it in your script.

You keep watching and writing.

The word bribery transforms itself from a noun to an active verb.

"No collusion, complete exoneration" is the mantra to which the loyal court of your main character subscribes and is made to intone on both Fox News and MSNBC.

In Season 3, a ghost from the main character's past is introduced as a person of interest named Roy Cohn.

Roy Cohn is dead though, so you change the ghost's name to Rudy Giuliani.

Giuliani's quite a ghost, he could be as good a ghost as Shakespeare's Banquo.

Giuliani joins the cabinet of ghosts and ghouls, creepy, shadowy Wall St. figures and rich women, but retains his ghostly independence to conduct a foreign policy that is also intended to smear your domestic political opponent.

By now, all odds are against your main character: he's down to his Core Supporters--two Senator's from Kentucky and the wife of one of them who he also employs as a member of hs Cabinet, as well as The Supreme Court.

Your main character's a real fighter though. He won't go down without a fight. His survival is the last and best alternative.

Desperate, he calls in Franklin Graham, President and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, for a Prayer Meeting in the Oval Office. Ivanka and Jared Kushner, AG Willam Barr, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo are also summoned.

By Season 4 you've lost interest in all the characters--they seem like sad semblances of the incompetent people you see showing up in the mass media over and over.

You tell the producer you need to spend more time around real people, the people who love you and who you love.  The press release the studio issues says that you've, "regained interest in the life right in front of me, and in the people who are watching the same show I'm watching, those who are writing this thing with me."

Season 4 is the end, in which your main character is sentenced to a lifetime of solitary confinement, diagramming sentences lifted directly from The Constitution of the United States and The Bill of Rights. 

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