“Guilty and scared”
Even as the DOJ comes demonstrably closer to indicting Donald Trump, and it becomes more obvious that Trump is going down, we’re paradoxically seeing more idle fretting than ever from those who are afraid he’ll just “get away with it all.” They’re reasoning that because Trump is still out there defiantly running his mouth, he must somehow know that he’s going to magically get away with it all. But in reality nothing works that way.
Take, for instance, Trump’s rally speech this weekend. Instead of trying to help the candidates he was supposedly there to promote, or even trying to help his own political cause, he instead spent his speech obsessing over the fact that the DOJ is closing in on him for stealing classified documents.
But Trump wasn’t even really trying to defend his actions, or make the case for his innocence. Instead he’s now moved on to the stage where he’s suggesting that it’s okay that he committed crimes because others out there have (supposedly) committed similar crimes. As if that ever goes over well with prosecutors or trial juries.
The kicker is that Trump can’t even seem to get his own phony argument right. He’s now insisting that former President George H.W. Bush will soon be prosecuted for supposedly stealing classified documents. Trump doesn’t appear to be aware that Bush has been dead for years. If anything it sounds like Trump’s babysitters are feeding him tall tales like this to try to keep him pacified on his way down, and he’s so far removed from reality that he doesn’t even know or care that Bush isn’t alive to be prosecuted. After all, it’s just a fantasy.
In fact here’s just how frazzled Trump sounded while trying to make his argument. C-SPAN transcribed it this way: “George H.W. Bush took millions of documents to a former bowling alley and a former Chinese restaurant where they combined them. So they’re in a bowling alley slash Chinese restaurant.”
No really, Trump is so far gone, he’s rambling about how a dead President is about to be prosecuted for stealing classified documents and hiding them in a Chinese restaurant that is also a bowling alley. Trump is trying to put on a brave face, but all his bravado and bluster is merely coming off like a petrified man who’s tepidly trying to convince himself that he’s somehow going to come out on top of this.
We’re not the only ones who see it that way. Former federal prosecutor Joyce White Vance cited Trump’s bowling ally rambling and summed it up this way: “In my experience as a prosecutor, people say stuff like this when they’re guilty & scared.” That pretty much says it all.
