The facts: Weisselberg’s crimes, for which conviction will be nearly automatic given the evidence, have a sentencing guideline of about 3-7 years. He’s 73. He will die in prison unless he flips on Trump.
The defeatists love to call me “hyperbolic” when I state facts. Fuck em 🙂
One defeatist, who is insistent that Trump will get away with it all, just angrily accused me of overstating Weisselberg’s criminal liability. I tried explaining the facts. So she called me a “Republican” and unfollowed me.
This level of defeatism is a psychological order.
And again, the defeatists are people who HATE Trump. But they’re so addicted to outrage, they want Trump to destroy them, just so their rage can be vindicated. They react angrily, and often insanely, to anything that suggests Trump will go down instead of defeating them.
Most liberal pundits are still pretending Trump will get away with it all, because they don’t want to be attacked by the liberal defeatist outrage addicts. And when I point out Trump is going down, the defeatists try to shred my reputation so they can pretend I’m making it up.
This kind of militant defeatism is a clinical level of insanity. These are people who want to be destroyed by what they hate, just so they can maximize their rage – and they’ll try to destroy anyone who gets in the way of their goal. It’s almost akin to suicide bomber mentality.
As it becomes more clear each day that Trump is washed up and is headed for prison, I fear the defeatists will become even more aggressive in their insanity, and their need to attack and threaten anyone who points out Trump is going down.
I feel bad for these types, as they’re clearly suffering from a debilitating mental condition (congrats MSNBC for creating all these defeatist zombies). But I also worry about how psychotic they’ll become once Trump is arrested.
It’s not just Trump supporters smashing things that we have to prepare for when he’s indicted.
It’s the complete mental breakdown of the defeatists on our side who were long promised they’d get to feel rage from Trump destroying them, and can’t handle not getting to feel it.
No, these types aren’t “bots.” No, they’re not Trump trolls. They’re very much real. They’re on our “side” but they’re insane. They’re huge in number (check out my replies sometime). And they’re a danger to everyone involved, because they want and NEED to lose. Be careful.
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To the liberal defeatists who keep yelling “Sadly, Trump will never go to prison no matter what” – what is wrong with you? First of all, you’re factually wrong; the New York proceedings make that clear. And no real activist spends all day predicting doom. Log off and get therapy.
You’re entitled to skepticism or pessimism (though neither helps you in politics). But outright defeatism, where you spend every day loudly insisting your side will lose, and harassing those on your own side who are trying to fight and win, is some kind of psychological disorder.
If you think I’m overstating the problem, or these types are just fake bots, I’m telling you that’s not the case. Spend some time in my replies, especially when I tweet about the NY criminal case against Trump, and you’ll see the militant defeatist types come out of the woodwork.
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.
It's possible Schumer is holding the preliminary HR1 vote next week, expecting it to fail, in order to ratchet up outrage and pressure on Manchin to cave on the filibuster after recess. If so, it's a solid strategy. But the defeatists will become even more psychotic than usual.
Manchin is already tentatively supporting a revised HR1. And he's already down to 55 filibuster votes. But we'd probably need him to come down to 51 before any version of HR1 can pass. Will that happen next week? I don't know. If so, Schumer is even better at this than I thought.
Again, while we MUST pass voting rights legislation, there is NO urgency. The 2022 election is not being held tomorrow. This a long game. Manchin is clearly on a path to caving. It'll happen. Just maybe not next week.
As I predicted, Joe Manchin now says he’s potentially willing to support a revised version of HR1. He clearly wants off the ledge. Now is the time to ramp up the pressure on him. Call him. Email him. Tweet him. Pressure him to support HR1 with as few revisions as possible.
…and keep in mind that whatever revisions Manchin currently says he wants to HR1, that’s just a starting point to the negotiations. The more you stand with Schumer, and the more you pressure Manchin, the less leverage he’ll have – and the “revisions” will end up being minimal.
Once Manchin backed himself into a no-win corner and became a target, he was always going to end up trying to find a way to cave while saving face: “I told you I’d never vote for HR1, which is why I only voted for a revised HR1.” But again, you have to keep pushing him to cave.
In something like the Biden-Putin summit, neither side has a magic wand. “Winning” is a matter of degrees. But separate press conferences, at a time when Biden has legitimacy in the eyes of the world, and Putin doesn’t, and Biden refuses to give him any, feels like a Biden win.
Of course the American media (on the left and right) has been up Putin’s ass all week, because it’s good for ratings. But this summit is about how the world perceives it. Putin would have benefited from standing next Biden at this press conference, and Biden was like “nah”
In any given situation, Biden loves to embrace everyone on all sides, except for the specific handful of people he thinks are the problem. It creates the appearance of “wow, Biden gets along with EVERYONE except [certain person], so that person must really suck.”
Here's the question: who was the source for the story about Trump pressuring Rosen?
Was is Rosen? Donoghue? Some other DOJ official? Is that person still in the DOJ?
It matters because whoever leaked this story wants Trump to be held accountable for it – and they may leak more.
Who had access to emails between Rosen and Donoghue? Probably not that many people. Stuff like this doesn't get picked up by the wind and land on a reporter's desk by accident. There's always an inside source who decides, at that particular time, the public should know the truth.
I always like to say that whoever comes off as the hero of the story is usually the most likely source for the story. But there are multiple people who come off looking good, so who knows? The identity of the source will become important later though.