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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The only use I have for the NY Slimes is to line the bottom of my birdcage!
NYT
NEVER YET TRUE.
DONT READ THIS LEFT WING BIASED RAG.
Who reads the NYT?
Don’t give it a .... lake of regard
Gollum’s ugly sister?
A complete lake of regard, at that.
The New York Times knows more than one way to lie
Behind The Curtain: How The New York Times Manufactures Lies For Democrats To Attack Their Opponents
Just another useful idiot. The media is infested with them. If ever there was a nuclear conflict, only them and cockroaches would survive. Probably pretty close genetically... and definitely aesthetically.
I wouldn’t sh— in you living room why do you post this kind of sh— here?
I’d hit it. With a Buick.
Who cares what a potty mouth thinks?
I guess you do....
Trump has been hiding under Brenda’s bed!!!
The man who was railroaded on 34 felonies with 136 years of possible jail time for a correct book-keeping entry he didn’t make which if he had made it would not be a crime, and who was fined 400 million dollars and accused of rape by a woman whose cat is named “Vagina” , is “playing the victim”?? The art of gaslighting Nobel Prize edition.
LOL !!!
The NYT piece tells us nothing about President Trump, but everything about the NYT. Difficult to imagine an operation further out of touch with most Americans than is the NYT.
OOOoooooo, lookee, thie “smart” guy SUMMED IT UP INT THE FIRST SENTENCE.
Get use to it, Sweetie, all that you have are...lies, evil people, loud ranting and raving, threats of more LAW suits; and WORSE OF ALL:
THE HATRED OF AMERICAN PATRIOTS WHO HATE...WHAT YOU ARE TRYING TO DO TO WAY OF LIFE.
NYT continues with its “no holodomor to see here” cover for real fascists and dictators.
Holodomor? Trump is one man and they haven't even sentenced him yet.
Reminds me when Reagan was unbeatable and the Libs could do nothing but sob over his charisma. As for Trump, had there been no lawfare, this rise in stature never would have happened!
By means of this preposterous kangaroo verdict, they are attempting to punish millions of us. Even if it is overturned, it can take away Trump's right to campaign long enough to sway the election. Their attempt may backfire, but they are evil.
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