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by Raid » Wed Aug 02, 2023 12:20 pm
Honestly I don't think the statement is any more deranged than what I'd expect from the man. I do think that he personally writes these, and then they're intercepted by a team of PR and legal people who cut out 90% of the rambling incoherency and straight up slander that he's known for.
I found a perverse pleasure in the statement that came out of Republicans Overseas UK (which the BBC claims is a real organisation and, presumably, not a facebook group run by Donald Jr.), who in the same breath decried the indictment as a huge miscarriage of justice, while still describing the charges as "trumped up", which is so ironic I'm worried that a hole is going to ripped in space time.
...but does anyone else have a feeling of encroaching malaise around this story? I think it's evident by now that Trump himself isn't ever going to back down, he's never going to admit to any wrongdoing, and he'll continue playing up to his supporters. He can be indicted, he can be convicted, but I'm not convinced that any of it will really matter - we're never going to get the satisfaction of Donald feeling beaten. I'm not saying it shouldn't happen, obviously it needs to or it's a terrifying precedent, but anything other than the man being thrown in jail, something that doesn't seem to be a possibility even to the prosecutors, is going to feel hollow.
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