- Updated!
- Handicapping this is more exciting than NCAA March madness
- Random points like my bracket picks
They have nothing but a trumped up case that will not survive appeal. Devastating analysis by J. Turly , — Andrew McCarthy
The charges against Trump are legally bogus, but that of course makes no difference as to why the Dems are making noise about it.
Biden’s legal problems (a zillion times more damning)
They also can reasonably predict that Trump will say something stupid or ‘play to type’ — a ‘type” that they have with some success, painted him.
Trump vociferously calling for protests in an un-nuanced tweet, is stupid for the above reason. Who thinks it was the best tack?
Trump is not going to go to jail or be held over this. Even if that were to be the case he should pull the specter of physical protests — the piñata the media wants — and communicate something like ~~ watch this unfold and contemplate the implications — and if he were to be held even overnight — a Letter from Birmingham Jail sort of thing has far more pathos and shows how small the Democrats are.
Raising the specter of Trumps womanizing (exaggerated or not) is not helpful to Trump. Anything to give people a reason to not vote for him against interests compared to Biden. Hell lies and Trump’s personality are all they have.
It could backfire, but Trump is not helping it backfire by calling for people to protest willy nilly and without planning and preparation.
It might not happen: Not So Fast on That Trump Indictment – It’s Not a Done Deal Yet
Doesn’t have to now — Trump has flubbed it enough that he is doing the damage they wanted to inflict.
Many would like to see Trump in shackles but just raising the specter works for them, until it doesn’t, and they might be reevaluating that
If they do use the DA to drop the dime, the DA is a sacrificial lamb at worst. They (Dem op center) do not care that he is in for an ultimately embarrassing legal shellacking on appeal. They will provide his sinecure for playing the game.
It is so obviously a trumped up charge that DeSantis ought to have in some way call it that.
Not withstanding this: Trump’s Ex-Lawyer Defends DeSantis Silence on Possible Manhattan Indictment. Politically it could not harm him to point out the legal nonsense going on.
Problem with the calls for him to not enforce an extradition is that it would require him to be judge and jury on the case and that is not tenable. We are told he could delay it for 60 days and that he could offer to Trump.
UPDATE DeSantis commented on the possibility of a Trump indictment over the hush money accounting situation today — decrying the politicalization of the Manhattan Attorney office under Bragg.
The Trump team responded to DeSantis’ hug with a bit of stiletto with a dull knife pull. I think DeSantis’ comments were good enough as to the substance of the persecution and the Trump machine cannot properly expect more given their pettiness toward DeSantis. Sure DeSantis “happened” to mention the antecedent event of hush money to a hooker but then that is the sort of thing Trump would do is it not?
DeSantis can play hardball with a little more alacrity than Trump’s gonzo ball. Trump people have previously and repeated in response to todays comments from Desantis bandied about accusations about DeSantis and alcohol at a party with underage girls present 20 years ago (ever been at a party with adults and underages were present — how about most picnics where non-teetotaler parents are present?).
Read more about the back and forth between the two and how DeSantis is constrained from doing much other than decry the bias and unfairness in the talk of charges against Trump. DeSantis attacks Manhattan ‘Soros-funded’ prosecutor in first comments on possible Trump indictment.
