Well, Donald Trump wasn’t arrested on Tuesday or Wednesday. It’s unlikely he will be indicted today, but I really don’t know. There’s a lot of gossip about when the New York grand jury will be reconvened and when they’ll actually vote on indictments – apparently, the DA sent the grand jury home yesterday. NBC says that they’re reconvene today, but other outlets say no. One thing is for certain, Trump is absolutely expecting to be indicted and he’s trying to prepare for it by leaking a lot of sh-t about how being arrested would be good for him.
Behind the gilded doors of Mar-a-Lago, former President Donald Trump and his advisers are preparing for several different potential scenarios related to a possible indictment from the Manhattan grand jury probing a hush money scheme.
Already a 2024 candidate for the White House, Trump has both celebrated how an indictment would help him politically and complained about how “unfair” it would be. He’s toyed with the idea of trying to create a media spectacle around it and, at times, he’s ignored the prospect of criminal charges altogether, sources close to him told CNN.
Two advisers said that the former president appears to have resigned himself to the likelihood of an indictment, with one close adviser calling his perceived distancing from the matter “compartmentalization.”
Even as there are signs the investigation into Trump’s alleged role in the scheme to pay hush money to adult film star Stormy Daniels is nearing an end and that preparations are being made for an indictment, it is not clear yet that the former president will be charged or when those charges could be unveiled.
“[Trump] knows it’s happening. We’ve all moved on to ‘OK, this is happening, how do we deal with it?’” one Trump adviser said.
The message we’re supposed to get from outlets like CNN and the New York Times is that Trump is a former president surrounded by competent professionals who are all taking this very seriously. The truth is that Trump is always a ball of criminality, fake tanner and chaos. He is not taking this well and he can’t hide it. The only reason his freakouts aren’t making the news with more regularity is because – I sh-t you not – he’s mostly raging out on his Truth Social platform and barely anyone is following him. He’s apparently posted no fewer than 80 messages, many of them caps-lock screams-into-the-void about George Soros and New York crime and Ron DeSantis.
he increasingly resembles a demon pic.twitter.com/IU7bPrbnsz
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 22, 2023
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- United States President Donald J. Trump makes a statement to the nation as his supporters look on in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC on Election Night, Wednesday, November 4, 2020.,Image: 567277620, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: usage worldwide, Model Release: no
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- United States President Donald J. Trump speaks via teleconference to representatives of each branch of the Armed Forces, including the Space Force, from the Diplomatic Room of the White House on Thanksgiving Day in Washington, DC on November 26, 2020. In answering questions from the media he called the election “a massive fraud.”,Image: 571580581, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: usage worldwide, Model Release: no, Credit line: Erin Schaff / DPA Picture Alliance / Avalon
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- United States President Donald J. Trump walks down the colonnade of the the White House in Washington, DC after returning from his Florida vacation early, Thursday, December 31, 2020.,Image: 579990115, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: usage worldwide, Model Release: no, Credit line: Ken Cedeno – Pool via CNP / DPA Picture Alliance / Avalon
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- United States President Donald J. Trump makes a statement to the gathered press as he departs the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021. The President is heading to Alamo, Texas today to visit the border wall between the United States and Mexico. This is the Presidents first appearance following the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by his followers last week.,Image: 582803260, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: usage worldwide, Model Release: no, Credit line: Samuel Corum / DPA Picture Alliance / Avalon
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- United States President Donald J. Trump makes a statement to the gathered press as he departs the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021. The President is heading to Alamo, Texas today to visit the border wall between the United States and Mexico. This is the Presidents first appearance following the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by his followers last week.,Image: 582803275, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: usage worldwide, Model Release: no, Credit line: Samuel Corum / DPA Picture Alliance / Avalon
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- U.S. President Donald Trump, left, and U.S. First Lady Melania Trump arrive to a farewell ceremony at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, U.S., on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. Trump departs Washington with Americans more politically divided and more likely to be out of work than when he arrived, while awaiting trial for his second impeachment – an ignominious end to one of the most turbulent presidencies in American history.,Image: 584864792, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: usage worldwide, Model Release: no, Credit line: Stefani Reynolds – Pool via CNP / DPA Picture Alliance / Avalon
