"Will this shredding of a core Trump myth [NYT's exposing of Trumpfy's lying about being a self-made billionaire and an actual massive tax cheater] change anything at all?"

Perhaps. Especially if the proper taxing Authorities have anything to say about it.

But with Pretty Boy Brett waiting/sipping/waiting/sipping/sipping/waiting in the sipping wings, Trumpfy's as good as Golden.

"We enter parliament in order to supply ourselves, in the arsenal of democracy, with its own weapons. If democracy is so stupid as to give us free tickets and salaries for this bear's work, that is its affair. We do not come as friends, nor even as neutrals. We come as enemies. As the wolf bursts into the flock, so we come." --Joseph Goebbels

@1 kristofarian: I'm still hopeful for a Blue Wave to wash clean in the midterms. If THIS massive pigfuckery doesn't wake people up already, I don't know what will.

Patrick Hamilton also wrote a trilogy of novels featuring the exploits of the caddish Ralph Gorse. The novels were adapted into what became the television series The Charmer, with Nigel Havers in the title role. (I occasionally reference from this work Joan Plumleigh Bruce, a Colonel's or Major's widow who was inclined to regard people as having or not having come out of the "top drawer".) The filming of that television series, in which Abigail McKern played Gorse's wife, meant that Samantha Bond was the first to play Mizz Liz Probert when John Mortimer decided to switch out the aristocratic Fiona Allways as Rumpole's young female junior for an outspoken radical feminist. Ms Bond left after a season, allowing Ms McKern to play opposite her father.

Please consider changing the podcast intermission music.

As Rich pointed out, we've known that Trump isn't a self-made billionaire since he was literally a child and Woody Guthrie was singing about his dad. We've known he was a scam artist for a while (Trump steaks, Trump University, refusing to pay contractors, pump-and-dump schemes with his casinos that were about to go bankrupt, tax fraud, insurance fraud, etc.), and that very much did come up in the 2016 campaign. That the Blabbermouth cast didn't know all of this a couple years ago is a surprise to me, but it's less a case of new information being uncovered and more a case of old information being re-verified and more effectively distributed.

So, no, I don't think it would have made a difference even if the information had been spread more widely in 2015 or 2016 - his voters voted for him knowing he's a rapey con artist. That's part of the appeal for many of them - he's good at fucking other people over for personal gain.