Donald Trump has completely bonkers meltdown about fleeing the country to Russia
Now that Donald Trump has been criminally indicted in four jurisdictions on 91 felony counts and is clearly going to end up in prison, we’ve all been wondering if he’s going to end up fleeing the country.
I don’t think he has it in him to go on the run, given the harsh conditions and vulnerability he’d face no matter where he went (think Assange in a basement). Nor is he nearly clever enough to pull it off. But I get why others think he might flee. And if he did try to make a run for it, it would have to be to Russia, right? It’s just so obvious. Now even Trump is admitting how obvious it is. Trump posted this insane screed on Truth Social tonight, which pretty much has to be presented in full context:
The failed District Attorney of Fulton County (Atlanta), Fani Willis, insisted on a $200,000 Bond from me. I assume, therefore, that she thought I was a “flight” risk – I’d fly far away, maybe to Russia, Russia, Russia, share a gold domed suite with Vladimir, never to be seen or heard from again. Would I be able to take my very “understated” airplane with the gold TRUMP affixed for all to see. Probably not, I’d be much better off flying commercial – I’m sure nobody would recognize me!
Uh, what? Wait, what? Where do we even begin with… what? Uh… yeah. For one thing, there’s no logic to what Trump is saying. If the court considered him a flight risk, it wouldn’t allow him out on the kind of bond money that he wouldn’t necessarily miss. It would simply lock him up. So this bond isn’t about him being a flight risk, it’s about getting him to behave.
Yet Trump’s meltdown appears to give away that he thinks the courts should view him as a flight risk. Yes, his rant about sharing a suite with Putin is obviously meant to be sarcastic. But why is he even bringing it up? He just managed to get pretrial release from four different judges who clearly don’t think he’s a flight risk, and now he’s turning around and talking obsessively about which country he would flee to if he did flee. He’s basically telling the judges in his criminal trials to think of him as a pretrial flight risk. And that’s a very, very stupid game to play.
But then that’s all Donald Trump does these days. He just keeps finding ways to dig himself an even deeper hole. Yes, he’s trying to be sarcastically witty with posts like these. But when you’re out on bail while awaiting trial on 91 felony counts, you don’t go online and even joke about fleeing the country. If even one of the four judges takes it seriously, Trump can get himself locked up with posts like these. All he’s doing is steadily marching himself closer to pretrial detention.
