1. Four DOJ prosecutors quit Trump buddy Roger Stone’s case after Trump criticized their sentencing recommendation and DOJ withdrew it -- a startling blow to the rule of law. Brief, depressing thread on what probably happens next.
2. The DOJ prosecutors may have sterling credentials, sparkling resumes, and heartwarming personal stories. It won’t matter. Trump’s Fox News propaganda machine is going to brutally smear them as Never-Trumper deep state operatives.
3. The Trump admin will lie a lot about what happened and stymie House Democratic attempts to conduct oversight. Fox et al will accept the shifting Trump story and gin up a bunch of bad-faith procedural complaints about Dem efforts.
4. Trump’s Fox-loving base will buy in to Trump admin story no matter how bad the fact pattern may be because they will only hear what his loyal propagandists tell them.
5. GOP leaders, either because they personally take cues from Fox to bolster their power or because they feel the heat from their Fox-watching base, will almost universally ignore the facts and eventually move to the “so what?” position.
6. It’s not hard to predict any of this. It literally all just happened. This is what Fox was created to do. If you have a problem with Trumpian violations of the rule of law, worry more about the propaganda machine. mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-n…
