Posted on 06/08/2024 12:39:43 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
When a Manhattan jury found Donald J. Trump guilty, it should have sent shock waves through the nation. Yet, though the trial and conviction of a former president was unprecedented in American history, it seems most people couldn’t have cared less. As Michelle Goldberg recently noted, only 16 percent of respondents to a Yahoo News/YouGov poll said they had followed the first few weeks of the trial very closely, and when asked how they felt, many replied, “bored.”
In its way, that must have annoyed Mr. Trump: how insulting, that no one would care. There was media coverage, but no frenzy, no rallies around the world in protest when he was convicted. But to win in the court of public opinion, Mr. Trump must now transform a trial in a run-down Manhattan courtroom from a shoulder shrug into an unforgettable event, with a story powerful enough to keep his supporters energized, if not outraged, and to drum up sympathy from the undecideds.
For months, Mr. Trump has been laying the groundwork, spinning his tale of tyranny and martyrdom (his own of course) and styling himself as the victim of an administration that has to play dirty to eliminate a rival as formidable as he. That story of persecution has only grown louder in recent days. Moments after hearing the jury pronounce him guilty, he predictably called the trial “rigged,” the judge “conflicted,” and a trial by jury as well as government institutions like the justice system irrelevant compared with the verdict that galvanized voters will presumably hand him in November. Politics, not the law, is his métier, and history is not his concern. His preoccupation, and his talent, is storytelling.
Instinctively he grasps the kind of broader stories that break through from the courtroom to the public. These stories...
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Wait! Wait! Her own website declaims ...
“Brenda Wineapple, a superb literary critic, has a historian’s soul”!
There were many things in this trial that was unprecedented. The jury members not only did not have to agree on the underlying crime, they did not even have to state what they thought the underlying crime was. Trump was guilty because orange man bad.
A felony conviction for a … bookkeeping entry!? The Democrats are grasping at straws. They must be really afraid.
brenda...YOU are an absolute nitwit who relies on her cats for “human” contact. Please return immediately to your home planet: LoserWorld.
“No state prosecutor - in New York, or Wyoming, or anywhere - has ever charged federal election laws as a direct or predicate state crime, against anyone, for anything. Never, Ever.”
Elie Honig
Never happened before in the history of Earth.
And? The (b)administration does indeed play dirty. Broken clock effect?
The NY Times: “The truth hurts and should not be spoken!”
Brenda Wineapple Is a dude! Look at that adams apple and her shovel-like hands.
The New York Times in massive panic mode going through every file of propaganda to try and save chairman Biden and Maoism.
I wonder how many NY Times subscribers have been cancelling this rag?
New York Slimes.
Nothing good comes from that smelly city.
She look-a-like an ugly man.
Sorry, NYT, but the provable FACTS support Trump.
Living in a cramped space in New York City can dramatically alter your perceptions.
That applies to both the sewer rats, and the staff writers at The New York Times.
“Brenda, you ignorant slut!...”
Ack!
5.56mm
The NYT is now admitting that their long denial that the pandemic started in a lab is true. Will they ever admit that Trump has been the victim of tyranny?
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