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emptywheel (blue moon)

Mar 5, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X

The way to cover Trump's CPAC speech is NOT to cover his promise to stay in the race if he's indicted, it's to point out how similar THIS SPEECH is for things he may be indicted for.

Emphasizing its inflammatory nature makes you part of the coup attempt.

Trump's play is not about the next election, per se. Reporting it as such is malpractice.

Trump's play is to make prosecuting him an existential challenge for democracy, where his partisans will take out law enforcement to undermine the case.

Trump's play is to ALWAYS reinforce division in society, to ratchet it up, so that his supporters will continue to piss away their lives by attacking democracy to save him.

His play is to keep his supporters distracted from the enormous fraud he commits against them.

Want to report on Trump's outrageousness?

Report on how his people are paying FBI Agents to spy on the investigation into him and his followers.

Blasting CPAC to audiences who would otherwise have ignored it just distracts from all that.

@svdate

And I agree that @svdate's coverage of the speech--including its emphasis on how poorly attended it is--is far better than most.

huffpost.com/entry/trump-cp…

@svdate

@svdate You can tell two stories:

Trump went to a failing conference and ratcheted up a partly empty room with the same incitement.

OR

WOW, Trump is so powerful even a "witchhunt" indictment can't stop him from being President.

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