Thread by @twoodiac

"Mr. Trump’s lawsuit comes less than two weeks after Ms. James signaled that she would seek to question Mr. Trump under oath early next month."

He's scared to death.

nytimes.com/2021/12/20/nyr…

He's doing this to block the subpoena to testify under oath. But it's such a flakey move it will only get him a very short delay. In the meantime, it's a bad look for Trump. It makes him look like he's running from the law, which he is. He's getting desperate.

I expect, momentarily, to see all the legal experts weighing in about what a flakey move this is by Trump. But Trump must *know* that it is a flakey *legal* move. (He isn’t that stupid.) But to understand his motive here, it is necessary to look at the *politics*.

This is essentially a political move by Trump that is aimed at his cult, and therefore at the GOP (which has been overtaken by his cult). The message is simply:

My criminal liability isn’t what’s important. The *only* thing that is important is the politics, and these investigations are a threat to me politically and to MAGA. And that’s the only thing you should consider. It is, in fact, the only thing that is even *relevant.*

Thus, Trump, in effect, is letting Rs and the Fox News crowd know that he expects *them* to speak out and even attack the *legal* system (and certainly not *him*) for investigating his mountain of crimes!

Trump’s attacks on the Jan 6 committee and the investigations by Vance and James in NY are just as insidious as the riot he clearly incited on Jan 6 at the Capitol.

Never Trumpers have claimed from Day One that Trump would destroy the GOP, and Trump’s frenzied attacks on the investigations show that they were right.

The inexorable slide towards a real debacle is underway. It began with Jan 6, and is accelerating now with his political attacks on the investigations.

Trump has already thuggishly attacked Meadows for (initially) cooperating with the Jan 6 committee, and he recently assailed McConnell when McConnell said that he supported the Jan 6 committee b/c the country needs to know what happened.

Trump clearly hoped to neutralize or even topple McConnell as the Senate’s Minority Leader. His effort failed. But Trump is not going to desist. He is going to escalate his efforts to get his cult behind the idea that he *should* be above the law, even if the *law* says he isn't.

The lawsuit that we learned about today is only a platform for Trump to further polarize the country, tear it apart, and incite his base--the country and the GOP be damned.

Let us all agree to really hate this man.

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