If you’re a subscriber, you’ve already seen some of this once. That’s because I screwed up and pressed the wrong button. So the first bit might seem…familiar. On the up side, you got a sneak peak at the writing before editing. (Oh, lucky you…)

Some of the trumpery we’re subjected to. He runs around telling his victims that the DOJ isn’t coming for him. They’re coming for them. These are not deep thinkers. I’m sure that line scares the crap out of them. It isn’t true, of course, but the MAGA cons are scared of all kinds of things that aren’t true. I’d like to try to help.

Dear MAGA cons, no, the DOJ is not coming after you (unless you’ve done something to warrant it yourself). They’re after Trump. Have you seen your name at the top of any of those indictments? No. You haven’t. Trump’s name is there. You didn’t have to appear in court Thursday. That was Trump. When the trial starts, nobody is going to say anything about you. Trump stands accused, not you. Should Jack Smith’s evidence prevail, it will be Trump found guilty, not you. Trump will get the sentence. Not you. Trump will serve the sentence. Not you. YOU only pay the fines. (I don’t know why you do that but you seem okay with it so…)

Like I say, it’s a great threat line, intended to scare you and it clearly works. But it’s just a line. The DOJ is coming after Trump, not you. They’re after him because of his crimes. If you didn’t participate in the crimes, you don’t have to participate in the punishment, see? That’s how it works. The DOJ is clearly after Trump and they should be. They’re not after you. It doesn’t matter how many times he says it. It remains a lie…

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My impression of 45 after Indictment #3? He stepped up to whine, of course, but he didn’t seem the same, to me. He still said all the crazy, accusatory things he likes to say. It’s just…his heart didn’t seem to be in it, you know? He looked kind of lacking in bravado. He also lacked an entourage. That’s very unusual for the guy. He almost always keeps a couple of sycophants around to keep his ego fluffed up, you know? Maybe they were in the car…

I suspect he might be very concerned about this latest judge. Her name is Tanya S. Chutkan. She’s been overseeing a LOT of these trials regarding January 6th rioters. She doesn’t like what they did and she’s been throwing the book at them. Apparently, she’s of the opinion that people associated with January 6th should go to prison, if only for a short time. It’s an opinion I share. But if she throws the book at the sheeple who answered Trump’s call, what is she going to do to Trump, himself, for putting out the call in the first place?

So far, 45 has done quite admirably when it comes to favorable circumstances in confronting the law. The cons love, love, love to point to how he “beat” the two impeachments. He didn’t. He didn’t get convicted in those cases because of jury nullification, where the jury (in those cases, Senate Republicans) doesn’t CARE if the defendant is guilty, they just acquit. Drawing Aileen “Loose” Cannon in Floriduh was quite a boon to him, too. No wonder the braggadocio kept flowing. She might as well wear her MAGA hat and ‘Trump 2024’ paraphernalia into her courtroom.

But Chutkan is different and I suspect 45 knows it. It appeared to me that he may be finally realizing that he might- literally for the very first time in his long, privileged life – have to take some responsibility for his actions…

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People keep hyping the idea that as Trump’s indictment numbers go up, so do his poll numbers. I’m skeptical. The key is the phrase “…among Republicans.” The Republican Party is a shell of it’s former self. The MAGA cons have pretty much run rational people out of the party. (No, they’re not Dems now, they’re independents, but they’re not getting the polling calls aimed at Republicans.) As the party gets smaller, the percentage of crazy gets larger…