Posted on 04/17/2024 10:48:56 AM PDT by Signalman
Amid the voluminous coverage on the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC this week on the start of the hush money trial brought by far-left Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg against former President Trump, Tuesday’s CBS Mornings whined not enough Americans care about this trial....like ABC’s Good Morning America, who was tickled pink about Trump suffering.
CBS News legal analyst Rikki Klieman had just finished explaining why this Trump trial is “significant because it’s first” and “is a solemn day in court when you put a former President...on trial” when co-host and Democratic donor Gayle King kvetched about the American public not being consumed by this.
“We should point out this is not normal. You know, Donald Trump always says he’s a — it’s a witch hunt, everyone’s against him, that it’s unprecedented, but also his behavior, for a lot of people, is unprecedented,” King huffed.
She then added the times we’re living in are “just not normal” and, despite all these histrionics, she’s “worr[ied] that the audience just hears white noise when they hear all of these cases running together.”
They may, but this is the first one that actually is going forward, so the attention will be on this one. But, no, it is not normal. Nothing about this follows legal norms in a courtroom. It may happen this time because Judge Merchan is strict and he’s going to run a courtroom the way it should be run, but 34 felonies for business records? Not normal.
Over on ABC, co-host and former Clinton flack Stephanopoulos giddily told chief Washington correspondent and three-time bestselling anti-Trump author Jonathan Karl that after having spent a year “talking about the political and legal calendars clashing”, Monday finally arrived.
Stephanopoulos added Monday “felt” like a change in “the dynamic...from” the past “when Donald Trump was so convinced” the charges would be boon for his campaign.
Karl beamed in announcing he saw “it in his behavior, in his demeanor” with Monday having been “a wake-up call for Donald Trump” in the form of “his new reality” as “now criminal defendant Trump”.
Clearly excited (and perhaps about the idea of a fourth book to hawk about Trump), Karl looked enthused at the idea of “see[ing] the bitterness, the anger” and “energy drained from” Trump:
Sure, he’s been indicted four times, he’s had to go to his indict — go to his arraignments, but now, he has to be inside a non-descript courtroom in lower Manhattan day after day against his will. He must be there and he is in a courtroom where he has no control. The judge is the boss and, for the most part, he has to be silent. You could see the bitterness, the anger, I think, the — the energy drained from him when he walked out of that courtroom at the end of the day. That was a different Donald Trump. And, look, he was restrained yesterday. He didn’t violate the gag order. He didn’t lash out at anybody. But how is this going to affect his psyche and his behavior as he does this for the next roughly two months?
That’s because everyone knows it is a politically motivated kangaroo farce ...............................
Even Trump is bored with the trial.
Because the trial is essentially about charges that he defrauded himself by someone putting the wrong one of several optional labels on his private business records?
If GAYle King and Chubby Bragg were going on trial for prostitution and bank robbery, I’d sure as hell be interested.
But he perked right up when he went to Harlem surrounded by Americans who love him.
It’s maddening that this is happening and the Repuke response is to have no response and give the Rats policy victory after policy victory. It’s Trumpand the people against EVERYONE. Not a good situation.
they want people concerned about court?
the real president offenders are democrat, and lawdie lawdie the media cannot have that!!
the country has been bamboozled b
y communists and the media cannot have that!
Nobody believes their lies anymore. One would think they would adjust in order to attempt to regain some semblance of credibility, but no. They are empty vessels which have become filled with hate.
I have a unique opportunity to see all alphabet network morning shows at one time most days.
They’re all hot garbage. But in my opinion See BS is the worst. Absolute woke crap.
“People” don’t sit around on their large load asses all day whining and pissin’ and moanin’ about President Trump. Only retarded, unhirable, miserable idiots hired by the jerks in “da media” throw tantrums all day because Honky Trumpy isn’t swinging from a tree somewhere yet. The Water Buffalo Sistahs and Wakanda Fatboy can’t get real jobs anywhere.
“but also his behavior, for a lot of people, is unprecedented”
Like how Gayle? Hookers? “Hush money”?
Go ask Bill Clinton about those you moron.
Trump is on Trial ? No
Quite a lot of people really do care, but not in the way King thinks we ought to.
He’s Trump, he’s Trump, he’s Trump, he’s on your head.
in
Apparently nobody cared about Gayle King’s show with Charles Barkley. It’s been cancelled.
The Presidents Of The United States of America.
What trial?
Someone wants to sell a story to the National Enquirer and you instead pay them more not to sell the story to them and it is turned into a crime because you - supposedly - didn't keep "proper business records" of the payment.
No, Gayle, getting into such a situation isn't normal, but neither is such a thing a crime worthy of a multi-count criminal indictment. It isn't even worthy of a civil action.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.