This image speaks volumes
https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/05/31/trump-undone-by-the-truth-of-his-pecker/TRUMP UNDONE BY THE TRUTH OF HIS PECKER
In days ahead, the criminal protection racket known as the GOP will spend an enormous amount of energy reinforcing Trump’s spin on the crimes of which he was convicted.
The court room was so cold it violated his due process rights.
Any judges who have Democrats in their family are disqualified from presiding over trials of Donald Trump.
It is unfair for a man to be tried in the state where he lived for 70 years of his life, where he built a business, where he committed his crimes.
Trump cannot be prosecuted for cheating to win while he was President and cannot be prosecuted for cheating to win after he lost the presidency.
Trump’s practice of hiring liars to lie for him should immunize him from any criminal liability for crimes committed by those liars.
All of this is nonsense. But it is nonsense that has become an article of faith for members of a cult that make up 40% of the US voting population. All of this nonsense is the price of admission to the Republican Party. And because they all adhere to this nonsense, it serves as a kind of reality for those who adhere to that faith.
I’m of the belief that Trump’s prosecution will only matter if the entire GOP is held accountable for willfully sustaining the Reality Show that says Donald Trump, and only Donald Trump, must be immune from accountability. Indeed, the criminal protection racket must double down now, because if Donald Trump starts being held accountable for his own actions, then the years of coddling his misconduct — the corrupt choices they made to sustain his fiction of invincibility — may start to backfire on all those who made those corrupt choices.
Upholding the fraud Donald Trump has been spinning for eight years has become an object of survival for the entire party. And not just for the party, but for their psyches.
