{"id":57102,"date":"2023-06-13T11:27:15","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T18:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=57102"},"modified":"2023-06-16T01:29:59","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T08:29:59","slug":"utterly-deranged-trump-calls-special-counsel-a-radical-right-lunatic-who-planted-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=57102","title":{"rendered":"Utterly Deranged Trump Calls Special Counsel a &#8216;Radical Right Lunatic&#8217; Who &#8216;Planted&#8217; Evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The indictments of Donald Trump on 37 felony counts of mishandling sensitive national security documents is obviously weighing heavily on him. And the closer he gets to his arraignment in Miami, the more his ordinarily nasty mood deteriorates even further.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Utterly Deranged Trump Calls Special Counsel a 'Radical Right Lunatic' Who 'Planted' Evidence%0D&#038;url=https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=57102\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to Tweet this article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-straight-jacket-insane.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump, Insane, Straight Jacket\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-48133\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You know you&#8217;re in trouble when your former Attorney General is asked on Fox News about the indictments and says that <em>&#8220;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewsCorpse\/status\/1667953777251614720\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">If even half of it is true, HE\u2019S TOAST!<\/a><\/strong>\u201d<\/em> It&#8217;s also problematic when two of your lawyers resign within hours of your being indicted. And it&#8217;s even worse when another one of your attorneys appears on Fox News and declares that you aren&#8217;t looking at the prospect of prison realistically.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE THIS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=57082\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump\u2019s Attorney Tells Fox News He\u2019s Not Facing Reality, He\u2019s Denying the Prospect of Prison<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The anxiety has clearly been mounting for Trump as his legal peril becomes more impossible to dismiss. His protestations of innocence seem increasingly hollow and impotent. In fact, he spends considerably more time attacking the Justice Department and the law, than he does making arguments against his guilt.<\/p>\n<p>Which is what he was doing Tuesday morning prior to his arraignment proceedings. Trump posted a furious flurry of comments on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56747\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his floundering Twitter ripoff, Truth Social<\/a><\/strong>, lashing out at special counsel Jack Smith. Unfortunately for Trump, his fear and desperation produced some rather <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/110537155212570044\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">comical<\/a> misstatements&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This is the Thug, over turned consistently and unanimously in big cases, that Biden and his CORRUPT Injustice Department stuck on me. He\u2019s a Radical Right Lunatic and Trump Hater, as are all his friends and family, who probably &#8216;planted&#8217; information in the &#8216;boxes&#8217; given to them. They taint everything that they touch, including our Country, which is rapidly going to HELL!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>First of all, President Biden didn&#8217;t <em>&#8220;stick&#8221;<\/em> Smith on him. It was Attorney General Merrick Garland who made the appointment, and Biden has remained appropriately distant from all of that. However, Trump recently threatened that, if reelected, he would appoint his own special prosecutor to go after Biden. He apparently still hasn&#8217;t learned that presidents don&#8217;t have that authority.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Trump &amp; his cult are APPALED by his indictment (which they call &quot;weaponizing&quot; Justice, although it was a Grand Jury that charged him) now says he&#39;ll appoint a special prosecutor on political grounds &amp; for personal retribution.<\/p>\n<p>FYI: Presidents can&#39;t appoint special prosecutors. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LbSFOCtxb8\">pic.twitter.com\/LbSFOCtxb8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; News Corpse (@NewsCorpse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewsCorpse\/status\/1668311547071057922?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>More to the point, Trump&#8217;s tirade maligns Smith as a <em>&#8220;Radical Right Lunatic.&#8221;<\/em> Trump ordinarily attacks Smith as a <em>&#8220;Radical Left Lunatic,&#8221;<\/em> but he now appears to be covering all of the politically ideological bases. Either that or he&#8217;s suffering from a deviant strain Freudian slippery. He followed that up with an entirely baseless accusation that Smith <em>&#8220;planted&#8221;<\/em> evidence among the documents found at Mar-a-Lago. Even though all of those documents were taken into the custody of the FBI long before Smith was appointed.<\/p>\n<p>Trump went on to vent his anger with posts asking if <em>&#8220;Deranged Jack Smith&#8221;<\/em> would be looking into <em>&#8220;the 1,850 Boxes that Biden is fighting to keep secret.&#8221;<\/em> Never mind that there are no such boxes in Biden&#8217;s possession, and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=57031\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">that allegation has been repeatedly debunked<\/a><\/strong>. Then, for good measure, he posted his trademarked rants of <em>&#8220;WITCH HUNT!&#8221;<\/em> and <em>&#8220;ELECTION INTERFERENCE!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But Trump&#8217;s tantrum still wasn&#8217;t finished. He <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/110537289819413660\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">whined<\/a> that <em>&#8220;THE GRAND JURY WAS NEVER TOLD ABOUT THE PRESIDENTIAL RECORDS ACT OR THE CLINTON SOCKS CASE, BOTH EXONERATING!&#8221;<\/em> However, there&#8217;s a good reason for that. Trump wasn&#8217;t charged with anything related to the Presidential Records Act (PRA), or what he calls the <em>&#8220;Clinton Socks Case.&#8221;<\/em> But even if those matters were relevant, they wouldn&#8217;t exonerate Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The PRA <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56604\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">explicitly states<\/a><\/strong> that <em>\u201cPresidential records automatically transfer into the legal custody of the [National] Archivist as soon as the President leaves office.\u201d<\/em> And the Clinton case involved audio tapes of an interview Clinton gave to a reporter. When it was litigated, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/article\/2023\/jun\/12\/why-the-bill-clinton-sock-drawer-case-is-not-compa\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the court ruled<\/a><\/strong> that the tapes were personal and that <em>&#8220;the Presidential Records Act distinguishes official presidential records from personal records.&#8221;<\/em> That cannot be said of the documents that Trump stole and stored in his Mar-a-Lago home\/hotel.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s hostility toward the special counsel is typical of his response to being challenged. He thinks that his irrational anger is sufficient to persuade people that he didn&#8217;t do whatever he obviously did. And he extends that anger to attacks on his political foes. In fact, his entire defense strategy becomes accusing others of what he is guilty of, and expecting that to somehow exonerate him.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=57077\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crybaby Trump\u2019s Indictment Defense Strategy Revealed: Whine Endlessly About President Biden<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Someone needs to tell Trump that, even if others committed similar crimes, that doesn&#8217;t absolve him of his responsibility for criminal acts. Although, he will find that out eventually anyway.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Be sure to visit and follow News Corpse<br \/>\non <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewsCorpse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/newscorpse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/newsie.social\/@NewsCorpse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mastodon<\/a>.<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>And check out my books on Amazon:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2aOYFpM\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox Nation vs. Reality:<br \/>\nThe Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Thanks so much for your support.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The indictments of Donald Trump on 37 felony counts of mishandling sensitive national security documents is obviously weighing heavily on him. And the closer he gets to his arraignment in Miami, the more his ordinarily nasty mood deteriorates even further. Click here to Tweet this article You know you&#8217;re in trouble when your former Attorney [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1475,1,8,16],"tags":[67,554,1485,377,123],"class_list":["post-57102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-general","category-propaganda","category-wankery","tag-crime","tag-donald-trump","tag-jack-smith","tag-joe-biden","tag-justice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-straight-jacket-insane.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-eR0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38446,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=38446","url_meta":{"origin":57102,"position":0},"title":"Trump&#8217;s Response to Mueller&#8217;s Indictment of 12 Russians Further Implies His Consciousness of Guilt","author":"Mark NC","date":"7\/13\/2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The breaking news this Friday morning is on a scale that is rarely seen in modern politics and crime. 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