Trump Is Now Raging at His Own Lawyer—and Wrecking a Big MAGA Fantasy
Trump Is Now Raging at His Own Lawyer—and Wrecking a Big MAGA Fantasy
newrepublic.com
Trump Is Now Raging at His Own Lawyer—and Wrecking a Big MAGA Fantasy
I greatly enjoyed this part:
Trump has been angrily venting about one of his lawyers, Todd Blanche, ever since the trial began.
He has griped that Mr. Blanche, a former federal prosecutor and veteran litigator, has not been following his instructions closely, and has been insufficiently aggressive. Mr. Trump wants him to attack witnesses, attack what the former president sees as a hostile jury pool, and attack the judge, Juan M. Merchan.
This headline is stupid and shows how many on the left still don’t understand Trump or his followers. The article goes further:
Here’s the rub: it doesn’t matter. None of this does. Trumps followers believe this regardless of the reality, and the truth doesn’t matter. It never did. For whatever happens, they’ll believe whatever they want.
I’m pretty sure many on the left know quite well that Trump and his followers are all pieces of shit.
I don't think any of them believe any such thing. My xenophobic parent let it slip when they accused someone of lying with "your name must be D T 2."
I call that a “Trumpian Slip”.
Your parent is in denial. They’re obviously not really so brain-dead not to know better than what Trump claims and the other garbage that they encounter about him online and on tv that supports him, but they believe it nonetheless because they want to. Because it supports their worldview. Because, over time, they’ve become so invested in him that to back out now would shatter their entire reality. They’re trapped.
But, as you have seen, for some, reality will slip through the cracks from time to time. The Herculean effort of maintaining such a massive, complex, and, frankly, ridiculous mountain of absurd and outrageous lies for so long is, honestly, exhausting. Nobody could be expected to even keep track of them all let alone maintain the mask 24/7/365 forever. Even Trump slips up and tells the truth when he’s blathering at his Nazi campaign rallies. Just yesterday, he admitted that he did, in fact, try to get to the Capitol on Jan 6 to attend the rally after denying it for over a year, lmao.
If you read the article, you will see that two thirds (so also his voters) take the hush money trial seriously.
His core followers, the ones I’m referring to, are that other third.
Trump support is a spectrum, now an awful chunk will rationalize or dismiss anything. But there are those around the edges of verdant support who can become uneasy as they learn more.
Perhaps you meant “ardent support”? “Verdant” means ‘green’, and is a word you would use to describe a lawn or shrubbery. Perhaps a forest.