Donald Trump had his arraignment thanks to an
indictment soaked in partisanship. It’s so laughably bad that the
charges read like a comedy script. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin
Bragg engaged in political theater, finding ways to elevate misdemeanor
charges as felonies; the statute of limitations also expired. How did
they get around that? They claim the clock stopped during the COVID
pandemic. Of all the things the Left tried to ensnare Trump in a legal
pickle, they got him on the alleged hush money arrangement he had with
ex-porn star Stormy Daniels, which the Manhattan DA’s office said helped
Trump win the 2016 election.
Still, the liberal media had their day, with some saying the quiet part out loud. Sure, crazies were near the courthouse, but the press
was there in full force to capture the moment. They’re the only people
who think a) a serious crime occurred and b) people outside of the Acela
Corridor care. Former CNN producer Steve Krakauer knows their game and
captured some excellent screenshots of the headlines about Trump’s
arraignment. There’s also a tinge of disappointment that no violence
erupted over this indictment (via Fourth Estate):
"Disappointment," says Andrew McCabe on CNN regarding the indictment. "Everyone was hoping we would see more."
McCabe
says the justification to try these misdemeanors as felonies "simply
isn't there": "It's hard to imagine convincing a jury that they should
get there." pic.twitter.com/PafSwiY2nZ
— Steve Krakauer (@SteveKrak) April 5, 2023
Fun new Acela Media standard - linking to The Daily Mail is intimidation! https://t.co/NiecDHyEdu
— Steve Krakauer (@SteveKrak) April 5, 2023
— Steve Krakauer (@SteveKrak) April 4, 2023
Just a perfectly executed tweet. No notes. https://t.co/GAjt2mo6tl
— Steve Krakauer (@SteveKrak) April 4, 2023
I concur. https://t.co/KgC1gvTXHA
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) April 4, 2023
...the good news — Trump would be indicted
after all. In fact, after he turns himself in in New York City on
Tuesday, he’ll fly down to Mar-a-Lago and make a speech. The giddy
journalists will get their mug shot to wallpaper cable news (and the
walls of their cubicles). The star is back! The addicts get their fix.
Because
let’s be very honest about what’s happening here. As I told Will Cain
on Fox News... the corporate media doesn’t want to see Donald Trump in
jail, or dropping out of the GOP race over these charges. That means
they’ll need to find a new drug to feed their addiction. DeSantis just
doesn’t bring that same high (or deliver the same ratings, or page
views, or subscribers). They want Trump elevated. Some would like him to
be the nominee because they think he’ll be easier to beat (something
Joy Behar literally said on The View last week). For others, it’s not so
overt — they just want the ride to go on a little longer.
Donald
Trump has been in this symbiotic relationships with the media for
decades. During the 2016 campaign, I read his 1987 bestselling book “The
Art of the Deal” (and wrote about my thoughts on it). It’s really worth
reading for anyone who wants to understand the Trump psyche better.
He’s more or less the same exact person he was then. And it’s full of
quotes that provide a playbook for how he truly plays the media, to this
day. “As long as they want to shoot, I’ll shovel,” he writes. And
later: “Most reporters, I find, have very little interest in exploring
the substance of a detailed proposal for a development. They look
instead for the sensational angle.”
In another passage, he writes
about the time he took a dormant construction site and made it look
active in order to secure a partner for his Atlantic City casino —
telling the construction equipment to move some dirt around and look
busy. “What the bulldozers and dump trucks did wasn’t important, I said,
so long as they did a lot of it,” he wrote. (It worked.)
He
played the press in 2015 and 2016. They happily played along. They
welcomed his rampage through the GOP primary. They thought he’d be easy
to beat in the general election. They were wrong.
Here we go
again. Tonight Jim Acosta, #Resistance hero of the Trump Era season one,
was on CNN hosting a panel of fellow Trump addicts musing about all
things Trump. They played the hits. Even Jeb Bush got mentioned! Love,
hate. Pleasure, pain. The junkies are happily feeding their addiction,
seemingly oblivious about what’s to come.
NBC News had this as their email headline: Special Coverage: Donald Trump, criminal defendant. There
is a criminal in this saga right now, the person from Bragg’s office
who leaked some of the details to the press, like the 34 charges brought
before the former president today. Trump pleaded not guilty. We won’t
revisit this kangaroo court until December 4, the date of the second
hearing, but the Left wants the headlines.
It's not about the
charges being true or not, I’m sure the liberal media establishment
knows these are trumped-up charges, but it’s about the slow bleed.
Keeping Trump tied down in legal troubles degrades him; it’s a death by a
thousand cuts strategy. The new playbook ensures the former president
is engulfed in constant scandal.
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