Donald Trump has completely unhinged “full subpoena power” meltdown
One of the downsides to chasing away all your lawyers (and in some instance unwittingly turning them into grand jury witnesses against you) is that you end up with no one to explain to you how the law actually works.
To that end, Donald Trump now appears to be under the delusion that he now has “full Subpoena Power” over anything he wants because he’s been criminally indicted. That’s not within a million miles of how the discovery process actually works (and someone really needs to teach him how capital letters work), but that isn’t keeping Trump from going off the deep end about it.
Trump’s social media ranting tonight also includes an imaginary story about how the “Unselect January 6th Committee of Political Hacks and Thugs has illegally destroyed their Records and Documents.” Again, that’s not how capital letters work, but Trump has even bigger problems than this.
At this point Donald Trump is focusing his trial defense strategy entirely on things that aren’t real and don’t exist. That means he’s all but automatically going to lose. And because judges tend to quickly lose patience with idiot defendants who make up nonsense, Trump is only going to end up making his trial happen sooner, not magically delay it with nonsense filings.
“This is unthinkable,” Trump is declaring. He’s right, in the sense that the consequences – spending the rest of his life in prison – are going to be unthinkably bad from his perspective, “and the Fake Political Indictment against me must be immediately withdrawn.” Not until he withdraws some of these improperly capitalized words.
