Strategeryizing

Well, I think Donald actually has a strategy here with his doubling, tripling, quintupling down on his attacks on E. Jean Carroll," said Johnston. "I think he's hoping the jury awards far more than $10 million. Then he can go out and say see, it's further evidence the system is against you. He can say it's a New York jury, which is code for, they're not Christian and they're not white. And that will appeal to his base, but it won't broaden his support, which is what he needs." 

The key thing to understand, Johnston added, is that "Donald here doesn't expect to ever pay this, just as he doesn't believe he'll ever go to jail. Doesn't mean that in his jumbled mind he's also not terrified. He is. But I think his goal here is get an enormous award from this jury so that he can use it to stir up his base."

True, but that won’t pay the $83.3 million judgment or fund the appeals bond (I’m not sure Trump hasn’t missed his chance to appeal the first verdict). Or expand his political base even as Trump works harder and harder to shrink it. Trump wants everyone who’s not with him kicked out of the party as RINO’s. Is that, too, a “strategy”?

And he is going to pay it. If he doesn’t pay it to Carroll, he has to pay it to the Court in order to stay the judgment while he appeals. Either way, he pays.  He should talk to his old lawyer, Rudy, who filed bankruptcy after his multi-million dollar judgment for libel. That’s Trump’s future.

Not much strategizing going on there.

Donald Trump’s gonna need to sell some more hats.

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) January 26, 2024

Probably what he has in mind.