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By EDUARDO PAZ-MARTINEZ

McALLEN, Texas | So, you're now thinking that Donald J. Trump is on his way to jail, that, yeah, it still holds that no one is above the law? Many an American got that in their brain after last Thursday's show in Atlanta, where Trump surrendered on those charges that he tried to overturn Georgia's vote in the 2020 election he lost to Democrat Joe Biden.

Well, don't get your hopes too high.

There are three reasons why Trump will never go to jail: (1.) he's white, (2.) he's rich and (3.) he's male.

That slow process of getting him to where he is now (actually facing charges of instigating a coup d'état) moved at a snail's pace for a reason. White America, including plenty of Democrats, does not want a white man to be the first jailed president ever. Yeah, laugh all you want. And then study our history.

You've heard it said over and over: If a Black president had done what Trump did, he'd have been imprisoned long-ago. True that. You know it. Trump has been the recipient of a load of breaks, before and after he was elected president. The guy has lived a charmed life. Three attractive wives, several more-attractive porn stars, big bank loans from Russia, a home in ritzy, ethnocentric (mostly whites) Palm Beach, two stupid sons out spewing lies he told them, a daughter who made her millions off China and a son-in-law who didn't leave the White House with Trump until he'd pocketed a $2 billion gift from Saudi Arabia in exchange for who knows what.

No, that climax scene in this lousy, B-grade movie starring one of our citizen fatboys will not include camerawork of Trump being walked into a federal prison.

Not happening.

Best for him would be house arrest. In Mar-a-Lago, that would be about as good as it gets for that program. Punishment? No, not anywhere close. But maybe it will shut him up somewhat, something the country needs desperately, Rednecks all-aside.

Let us hope...

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Notre Dame beat the U.S. Naval Academy 42-3 yesterday in college football's initial game of the 2023 season. It was 28-0 at halftime. Not much of a competitive contest, but, well, we were sort of itching for football, so we sat in front of the TV and watched the merciless beating.

Next up for us is next Saturday's game between Texas and Rice in Austin. It should also be a general whipping as Rice, well, is not anywhere near a top tier football program. The test will be on the Longhorns, a team which has been disappointing since QB Vince Young led it to the national title in 2005. We expect big things from Texas, but we know we'll ultimately be let-down.

That's been their pattern, which is sad because the Horns have won nine national championships, the first one coming in 1914.

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Not much lately from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, the Man Who Tamed The Tame Rio Grande. The Republican made waves all year up until recently. He's been too-quiet, which makes us believe that he'll soon add to his buoys as Border Wall policy and razor wire as a re-enactment of the Battle of The Bulge.

What could be up Abbott's sleeves?

I fear the worst, mainly because this guy has so much free time on his hands. I mean - the buoys? We had to laugh when we first heard of this, but, well, Maria, there they are in the middle of the passive Rio Grande. Some solution to the migrant problem that is always magnified by Republicans.

But, no, it would not surprise me one bit if prankster Abbott up and announced Texas had purchased the old Berlin Wall and would be erecting it along the northern banks of the Rio Grande, this after failing to buy chunks of the Great Wall of China, when the Chinese said, uh, no.

You think?

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The weather's been a bit more tolerable lately, but we're not done with the Annual Texas Summer Scorch. This coming week will be Hell once again. The day's high reading in McAllen tomorrow will be 108 degrees, with the feels like at about 115-degrees. Tuesday and Wednesday will be at 103 degrees, according to the air-conditioned weatherboys.

September arrives on Friday. That will be, if nothing else, a state-of-mind blessing.

Halloween is two months away, Thanksgiving three months and Christmas four months.

Are you ready!?! Are you ready!?!

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Our wandering reporting staff spent the weekend on South Padre Island, where some of them said the drinks were better than the beach. We had asked a few of them to stopover in Brownsville, the Harlem of The Rio Grande Valley, snoop around and bring us a report on that city's doings or undoings.

Brownsville is still poor and boring, they messaged.

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