{"id":61345,"date":"2024-05-11T13:34:53","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T20:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=61345"},"modified":"2024-05-12T03:00:20","modified_gmt":"2024-05-12T10:00:20","slug":"trump-and-fox-news-are-priming-the-maga-cult-for-devastating-and-dangerous-disappointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=61345","title":{"rendered":"Trump and Fox News are Priming the MAGA Cult for Devastating and Dangerous Disappointment"},"content":{"rendered":"

The trial of Donald Trump for election interference and campaign finance fraud (sometimes known as the “Hush Money”<\/em> trial), has wrapped its fourth week. Throughout that time the prosecution has presented witnesses whose testimony has been credible and severely damaging to Trump’s fading prospects for an acquittal. And the cross examinations by Trump’s defense counsel have been wholly ineffectual, and at times even beneficial to the prosecution.<\/p>\n

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Consequently, Trump has resorted to pitifully lame outbursts that range from whining that he is the victim of a “hoax”<\/em> prosecution that is being run by President Biden (for which he has never provided a shred of evidence), to infantile insults aimed at the judge and other parties to the proceedings. Yet somehow, in the midst of all this seething angst, Trump still babbles about how splendidly everything is going.<\/p>\n

SEE THIS: CRYBABY TRUMP Says \u2018The Case is Going Fine,\u2019 While Also Whining About How Badly It\u2019s Going<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

In what has become a staple of Trump’s hallway harangues, he has been brandishing batches of print outs provided by his campaign caretakers. This stack of carefully vetted emotional support documents consists of entirely of articles by Trump’s Fox News flunkies and assorted legal hacks who are unflinchingly devoted to Dear Leader.<\/p>\n

This courtside ritual sees Trump rifling through the documents and reciting the names of his TV legal advisers. What it doesn’t do is offer any coherent argument in his defense or evidence of his innocence. He doesn’t even bother to quote from the articles he is flaunting.<\/p>\n

However, on Friday Trump posted a series of citations from some these legal “experts”<\/em> on his floundering social media scam, Truth Social<\/a><\/strong>. This should give everyone an idea of why he is so convinced that he will prevail in his criminal cases. Trump began with own fact-free decree of confidence, shouting<\/a> in all caps that, “THERE IS NO CRIME, ACCORDING TO ALMOST EVERYONE, AND IT IS TOO LATE FOR OUR CORRUPT GOVERNMENT TO CREATE ONE!”<\/em> What follows are some of the “everyone”<\/em> to whom he is referring…<\/p>\n