. . . but the dimwit goobers who support Trump just keep sending him money and going to his rallies and making asses of themselves.
Trump has put his attorneys in a bad place every time they face a judge and have to explain claims he keeps making to his rabid followers.
It’s one thing for Trump to hold a rally where he raves for 2 hours but it’s a completely different story when his lawyers present the case to a judge. The judges are not buying Trump’s MAGA make-believe stories and his legal team has no way of defending him without perjuring themselves.
Frankly, Trump’s lawyers do not have any defenses. At the end of the day this is always been sort of a publicity stunt, something to fund-raise off of, something he could take to his base and continue the narrative that somehow he has been wrongly investigated, and the deep state is going after him and that he can use this to engender more support for this nonsense tale that he is trying to get away from any accountability for any criminal acts he engaged in.
However — at the end of the day, all this nonsense in this land of MAGA make-believe hits the judicial system of the United States where it crumbles immediately. This is what you have seen from Judge [Raymond] Dearie, the special master laying out an aggressive timeline saying “We have heard you make the statements that you declassified them, we heard you make statements that evidence has been planted. Fine, by Friday, give details of exactly what you mean by that, and not only that but by next month, by mid-October, to have a complete review of a privilege log for anything you claim as executive privilege, client-attorney privilege.” (Remember: Trump’s attorney requested Judge Dearie for the Special Master position.)
There is no argument Trump can make, and more importantly, if the attorneys representing Trump put their name on the line for something that isn’t supported by the law, that isn’t supported by fact, that will get them into a lot of trouble ethically and with their bar memberships and their licenses to practice law.
I don’t expect to see anything of substance coming from Trump and his attorneys this week. We will hear more social media bullshit from Trump while his lawyers must decide whether to tell the truth — and put their client in jail — or continue to lie for their client and put their licenses in jeopardy.