The BROAD consensus IS that the Justice Dept . indictment against the ex-President is TIGHT….
It is TIGHT because of things Donald Trump did and talked about….
And THAT is why Trump & Co. (including GOPer lawmakers) are doing EVERYTHING they can to blot out the actual criminal charges to the faithful via the media….
A lot don’t want to know the charges…..
They keep bringing up Biden and Pence who gave stuff back without having supoena’s served on them….
If you check closely?
There ARE some Republicans who are quietly acknowledging that Trump IS in Deep Shit criminally….
And?
That he is NOT gonna get his first and only government job back, let alone beat the charges….
Scrutinizing the Republicans who scrambled to defend Donald Trump in wake of his latest indictment, a New York Times analysis noted, “Few if any of them bothered to wait to read the indictment.”
This is demonstrably true. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy slammed the indictment as a “grave injustice” nearly a full day before the California Republican had any idea what it said. Similarly, Sen. Ted Cruz told his podcast listeners, “This indictment is garbage,” long before it was unsealed. The Texan — a Harvard Law school graduate and a former state solicitor general — was condemning a legal document he had not read and knew effectively nothing about.
There were, however, other conservatives who preferred a more literate approach. John Bolton, who served as Trump’s White House national security advisor, wrote on Twitter, “All American voters should read the full text of the Trump indictment, and then consult their own consciences.”
The editorial board of National Review, which I nearly always disagree with, added on Saturday:
[I]t is impossible to read the indictment against Trump in the Mar-a-Lago documents case and not be appalled at the way he handled classified documents as an ex-president, and responded to the attempt by federal authorities to reclaim them.
The editors’ use of the word “read” stood out for me, because it struck me as emblematic of a larger point: Republicans are counting on the public not to read the Trump indictment, as part of a broader assumption that the public will avoid reading all sorts of things.
Or put another way, an amazing amount of the GOP’s strategy, especially since the dawn of the Trump era, is based on a simple assumption: Their base won’t actually read relevant documents, which makes it vastly easier for them to lie more or less with impunity about documents party officials haven’t read, either.
Take former special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on the Russia scandal, for example. It’s easy to forget that one House Republican — former Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan — publicly endorsed Trump’s impeachment in 2019. Asked why, the then-congressman said that he, unlike most of his GOP colleagues, actually read Mueller’s findings…..