This Is Where I Get Off The Crazy Train

Why is everyone torturing themselves as to the various possible bases of a felony “bump up” in the Trump indictment- a second false biz filing intended to further the first false biz filing suffices, and so on.

— Andrew Weissmann 🌻 (@AWeissmann_) April 5, 2023

Right? At best for Trump, it's a misdemeanor, unless he can establish a reasonable doubt (which he can't, because the documents say what they say) that the payments were accurately accounted for as hush money for a porn star.

There will be plenty of felonies to come, both in… https://t.co/RZU4Zfu6jO

— George Conway🌻 (@gtconway3d) April 5, 2023

Most defendants don’t have propaganda machines spinning the nothingburger story on their behalf. In addition to the usual suspects, CNN has returned to their 2015 normalization practices, featuring pundits and “analysts” declaring the charges weak and undeserving of prosecution.

— Karen Leavitt 🌻 🇺🇦 (@kleavitt) April 5, 2023

Because the only opinions that matter are the ones the jurors come to.

And this about the weakest and most worthless take possible (no, not Josh’s frame):

It’s actually not a win to get all the attention when you’re getting arrested and arraigned on multiple felony indictments. I don’t pretend this is a great insight. But a lot of people don’t seem to understand it. pic.twitter.com/8VCw5yirUB

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 5, 2023