And then suddenly, it is upon us.
Donald Trump claimed on Saturday (early Sunday NZ) that his arrest was imminent and issued an extraordinary call for his supporters to protest as a New York grand jury investigates hush money payments to women who alleged sexual encounters with the former president.
Despite no evidence that Manhattan prosecutors have given any official notice to him or his lawyers, Trump declared in a post on his social media platform that he expected to be taken into custody on Tuesday. The message seemed designed to preempt a formal announcement from prosecutors and to galvanise outrage from his base of supporters in advance of charges widely seen as coming soon.
In its direct encouragement of protest, and his capital letter demand to “TAKE OUR NATION BACK!” the post evoked in foreboding ways the rhetoric he used shortly before the insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
After hearing from the then-president at a Washington rally that morning, his supporters marched to the Capitol and tried to stop the congressional certification of Democrat Joe Biden’s White House victory, breaking through doors and windows of the building and leaving officers beaten and bloodied.
…news that Trump may well be arrested this Tuesday alongside his direct plea to MAGA supporters that they take to the streets to ‘Take our Nation back’ is the moment we have all waited in fear of.
How crazy are MAGA supporters?
How fanatical are they going to be to defend this orange fascist?
Will the Emperor with no clothes on suddenly fold like the coward we know he is or will he become a martyr to a new kind of American Fascism?
This has the potential of rupturing existential fears as demented Qanon realities fracture like a multi-verse implosion. This could trigger a thousand personal armageddons misread and mis-interpreted by thousand Qanon foot soldiers.
America (and the World) holds it breath as Trump is arrested.
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To paraphrase Mango Mussolini himself…
“LOCK HIM UP!!”…
Trumps appeal to American weirdos, neo fascists, ‘Christian’s’ of various stripes, and alienated of many descriptions has always been that he is an enabler.
His rallies and bluster are equivalent to whispers in their ears-it’s ok to be you-it’s ok to hate blacks, queers, unions, women and leftists, it’s ok to be a Proud Boy-and what’s more I demand that you do! MAGA MAGA!
My final thought is maybe nothing will happen, every time decent people hope this piece of filth assembled in some grotesque mockery of the human form, is going to be served justice he somehow wriggles out.
Your headline quote from ‘MAGA Jesus from the Book of Q-Anon’ would equally apply, through his words and actions, to the self-styled ‘Christian’ evangelist, Julian Batchelor.
A/NZ is fast becoming the home of the ultra-hypocrites! Very sad.
I don’t think any of this is going to go down like how the Democrats are hoping – i.e. “Look at Trump in handcuffs!”. “Look at that trump mugshot!!” These trumped (pun!) up charges – he is being arrested for a literally a “misdemeanour” charge in the City of New York and they’re bringing it as a Federal crime using newly minted legislation – are ultimately going to end up embarrassing the left, and all but ensure a Trump 2024 Presidential win. And I don’t even like Trump. At all.
“Will the Emperor with no clothes on suddenly fold like the coward we know he is?”
Not as long there is a audience available for him to con.
Until the you may as well ask him to stop breathing.
he’ll never serve a day, the political establishment don’t want the precedent on the books of high officials going to pokey
Maybe he could share a cell with Putin.
I’d pay to see that.