Now that Allen Weisselberg is about to be indicted in New York, MSNBC is suddenly pushing the theoretical notion that Donald Trump himself might not be indicted. But this is just baseless fear mongering to scare you into staying tuned in, to boost ratings.
First of all, this isn't a regular grand jury. It's a special grand jury, empaneled for more days a week than usual, and lasting longer than usual. You don't do that just to indict some underlings. This grand jury has clearly been empaneled specifically to indict Donald Trump.
Second, the entire point of squeezing Weisselberg like this, and indicting him on crimes he committed in relation to Donald Trump, is to get him to flip on Trump. The notion that Trump isn't being targeted is laugh out loud absurd.
I actually predicted that once the grand jury began to indict Trump's underlings, the media would play the doomsday card by saying "maybe that's all we're going to get." Sure enough, here we are. The media's ratings ploys run like clockwork.
Previously, the media tried to scare you into staying tuned in by implying that the grand jury might vote not to indict anyone, even though grand juries return indictments literally 99% of the time when they're asked to.
Now that indictments are coming, it's a new scare tactic.
Now that indictments are coming, it's a new scare tactic.
And of course once Trump is indicted, the media will then try to scare you into staying tuned in for ratings by suggesting that he'll magically be acquitted at trial, or it'll somehow never go to trial, or some other doomsday scenario.
The media is not your enemy, but it is very rarely your friend. The media sees you as the product. It manipulates you to hit its ratings marks, so it hits its revenue marks, because it's a for-profit industry. Your job is to realize when the media is bullshitting you for ratings.
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