"A Most Pathetic Display" - Trumpers' Reaction to Trump's Week in a Nutshell
"This week, federal agents entered Mar-a-Lago and executed a search warrant to take back government documents with which ex-President Donald Trump had absconded. Trump used the occasion to make himself a martyr, screeching about being persecuted by the Biden administration. Politically, the (short-term) effect was to rally the party around him in frothing outrage, and it worked. Same old, same old. The guy who tried to overturn an election by sending a marauding mob of lunatics to attack members of Congress at their workplace wound up the string yet again, and Republicans were off to the races defending him. These dopes deserve to live under his thumb, repeatedly enduring the same embarrassment, again and again, forever. What do they think is going to come of this? Do they think that the very cautious Attorney General Merrick Garland signed off on this (polite!) search to get the government’s shit back when he didn’t have strong reason? We will learn more—oh, we will learn more!—but the Washington Post has already reported that “classified documents relating to nuclear weapons” were among the documents the FBI sought to retrieve. Donald Trump long ago forfeited the benefit of the doubt, and it’s been tiresome to watch another round of supplicants rushing to wipe his fake tears."
Jim Newell
"This week, federal agents entered Mar-a-Lago and executed a search warrant to take back government documents with which ex-President Donald Trump had absconded. Trump used the occasion to make himself a martyr, screeching about being persecuted by the Biden administration. Politically, the (short-term) effect was to rally the party around him in frothing outrage, and it worked. Same old, same old. The guy who tried to overturn an election by sending a marauding mob of lunatics to attack members of Congress at their workplace wound up the string yet again, and Republicans were off to the races defending him. These dopes deserve to live under his thumb, repeatedly enduring the same embarrassment, again and again, forever. What do they think is going to come of this? Do they think that the very cautious Attorney General Merrick Garland signed off on this (polite!) search to get the government’s shit back when he didn’t have strong reason? We will learn more—oh, we will learn more!—but the Washington Post has already reported that “classified documents relating to nuclear weapons” were among the documents the FBI sought to retrieve. Donald Trump long ago forfeited the benefit of the doubt, and it’s been tiresome to watch another round of supplicants rushing to wipe his fake tears."
Jim Newell