The media narrative on Trump maybe about is teasing to run for 2024…
But lurking beneath the surface is an ever increasing legal quicksand….
The Feds have TWO sitting Grand Juries in Wash DC listening to people singing…
The Georgia DA has more people signing in front of a Grand Jury….
The Manhattan DA has Trump old money man singing about his company ….
The New York Attorney General is about trying to take his company apart like the another AG put his foundation out of business …
And there is more including the long running IRS case…
Donald Trump is NOT gonna be able to just shake ALL of this off and come out on top unharmed….
And?
His down fall is ALREADY dragging Republicans down….
But uniting his base…..
The internet freak-out over Trump’s visit was a rare moment of levity and eye-rolling for a Trump world that has increasingly been consumed by swirling legal problems that could threaten their collective future.
Trump’s allies and aides have been left angry and a bit shaken this week over the Department of Justice’s issuance of some 40 subpoenas targeting people in Trump’s inner orbit over their efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and their connections to events on Jan. 6. Cell phones were confiscated from at least four people. A few trusted text chains among Trump vets were ignited with speculation about shoes soon to drop, while others went quiet.
“Every day feels like something else is piling on,” said one former Trump official.
Gone, for most in Trump World, was the bravado that this probe too would pass and that the 45th president would emerge stronger. Instead, there was growing anxiety about what could be next, as well as fears that those in the inner circle may flip on their friends to save themselves….
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There have been elements of defiance, with some of the most important Trump figures — including his sons Don Jr. and Eric — charging that the legal pressure was due to a Democratic conspiracy that would backfire at the ballot box this November and in 2024. And Trump allies and some of those who were targeted by the subpoenas have continued to bang the drums, primarily on conservative media.
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Still, in some circles of Trump’s broad universe, there is a sense that people are going quiet as the DOJ’s microscope has intensified — a reticence atypical for a group whose default posture is usually to throw haymakers.
“I think the silence has been deafening because usually the default is attack, attack, attack, and I’ve not seen much of that and it’s not to the usual level,” said a former Trump campaign official….
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The president, the person said, was happy that his poll numbers have trended up among Republican voters since the FBI seized documents from Mar-a-Lago. But among Trump’s political advisers, there is a near-universal sense that he is unlikely to pull the trigger on a 2024 announcement before the midterms: there is simply no reason to prematurely announce. After all, his late summer legal battles have effectively unified his base….
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