After an especially deranged weekend news cycle, let’s take inventory:
What we don’t know:
- Whether Trump will actually be indicted.
- What he will be charged with.
- Whether he will be arrested, fingerprinted, or have a mugshot taken.
What we do know:
- The former president is now actively channeling the rage and violence of January 6 against prosecutors, judges, and juries with a Trumpian mixture of menace and bullsh*t.
The House GOP quickly made common cause, threatening the Manhattan DA with retribution. As part of the quid pro quo for making him speaker, Kevin McCarthy is making obstruction of justice a central plank of the GOP platform
The normie GOP fell into line.
The Mad King in Exile has some more thoughts today:
