How to deal with a Dear Leader under indictment

Created
Tue, 21/03/2023 - 03:30
Updated
Tue, 21/03/2023 - 03:30
“Fall in line” seems to be the order of the day Donald Trump announced over the weekend that he was going to be arrested on Tuesday by publishing a series of hysterical posts on his Truth Social media platform exhorting his followers to take to the streets in protest. As it turns out he doesn’t actually know that he’s being arrested on Tuesday but surmised it from the media reports and decided to signal his loyal followers to get organized. As I write this it seems that an indictment is imminent but there is at least one more witness scheduled to testify to the grand jury today (Michael Cohen’s former lawyer), so it’s unclear exactly when it’s coming. Trump isn’t taking it well: Social media set itself on fire over Trump’s announcement and some of Trump’s minions appeared on TV to echo his rage suggesting that the case is being brought to hide the crimes of the “Biden Crime Family” which includes the widow of the late Beau Biden. One Fox News commentator bizarrely suggested that Manhattan District Attorney (DA) Alvin Bragg is being funded by the federal government and is therefore tampering with the 2024 election: Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani wailed that prosecuting political figures is a sign of a nation in decline. “You can look at ancient history, and you can see this is the kind of thing that ends a civilization.” Alex Jones claimed that this is timed with the International Criminal Court charging Russian president Vladimir Putin for “evacuating children from a war zone”…