So we’re thrown back on Maggie Haberman (could be worse).There’s a Trump rally tonight but I won’t be watching this one live. Enjoy your Saturday evenings.
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 29, 2022
Trump now attacking the prosecutor who Vance brought in to help with the Trump investigation, tying him to Hillary Clinton because he worked at a law firm that has a connection to her. "Lock her up!" the audience chants.
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 30, 2022
"They want to put me in jail," Trump says of the Manhattan and other investigations.
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 30, 2022
Trump aides have been trying to get him to stay on a message that isn’t “can you believe what happened to me in 2020.” So far in this rally he has.
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 30, 2022
Turns out (surprise!) he couldn’t stay away from the 2020 election.It’s why Twitter was such an effective tool for him. Make it all look shrunken and hard to differentiate.
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 30, 2022
It’s really all too predictable. The only newsworthy bit seems to be this:After a brief detour into complaining about the prosecutors investigating and trying to gin up another giant protest if he's charged....
— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) January 30, 2022
He's back into lying about the election.
He’s going to be very disappointed. Especially when the protests that don’t come to pass have no effect on the courts even if they do occur. And “threatening unrest” is the kind of empty phrase public officials use when they don’t like the person speaking. It’s not really grounds for any legal action, and it doesn’t make you clever to use it.RE earlier:
— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) January 30, 2022
Here is the video. This is basically threatening unrest -- to put it mildly -- as the cost of charging him.https://t.co/oXX9JND3GX
He doesn’t know whether to shit or go blind. And because “Texas” I have to mention Rick Perry, if only because:"They want to put me jail. They want to put me in jail."
— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) January 30, 2022
"The Supreme Court and others are missing in action on this stuff."
What Perry was advocating was election fraud (whether he thought it was legal, or not, is irrelevant). More evidence for the conspiracy charges.Shout out to Rick Perry.
— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) January 30, 2022
(Perry was the one who suggested to the WH that Trump push a strategy to just ignore state election results and have Republican state lawmakers just declare Trump the winner.)https://t.co/mu7JKJg02I
Yeah, not much track record there.Anyone recall any other big protests when Trump supporters thought he was wronged? https://t.co/1ot3d7fDhs
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 30, 2022
Yet another reason not to vote for him.This is new: Trump says if he runs and wins in 2024, he will consider pardoning people involved in Jan. 6.
— Shane Goldmacher (@ShaneGoldmacher) January 30, 2022
“If it requires pardons, then we will give them pardons”.
Does that explain the sheer incoherence?Much of what he said tonight was in the teleprompter https://t.co/0e5xv2qc3f
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 30, 2022
— Acyn (@Acyn) January 30, 2022
He can’t get it printed, much less published, but “go out and buy it”? That’s some teleprompter.Trump: Can you believe what’s happening? You can’t get anything. The shelves are empty. I did a book. They can’t publish it anymore. They can’t get the paper, the glue, the ink. Go out and buy it. You’ll like it pic.twitter.com/O35BexWbbq
— Acyn (@Acyn) January 30, 2022
He’s really not helping himself on any possible conspiracy charges.Trump, gearing up for likely 2024 run, dangles pardons to Jan 6 arrestees. Some of those arrestees have been mentioned in court papers saying they believed they were doing what Trump wanted https://t.co/IlkAz0otqY
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 30, 2022
Seriously; he’s a prosecutor’s best friend. Or best defendant.In one rally speech, he dangled pardons for people charged with invading the Capitol and disrupting the electoral college certification while encouraging mass protests if prosecutors investigating him do something he doesn’t like https://t.co/oVIRfjaO90
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 30, 2022
I heard someone speculate based on his performance that he's so demented he can't read the teleprompter anymore. I wasn't aware he had been able to.
ReplyDeleteI suppose I could imagine Rick Perry going to jail for this but I've already thought of six impossible things today. Though it makes me smile to think of it as a possibility.