Donald Trump’s new strategy: admit he’s a criminal
Donald Trump is so obviously guilty of the two felony accusations brought against him by the SDNY, he’s no longer even trying to pretend he didn’t do it. Instead he’s embarking on a new strategy, one which centers around acknowledging that he and the people around him are indeed criminals, and trying to paint himself as a victim because he’s a criminal.
If that doesn’t make any sense to you, don’t worry, you’re not alone. We thought Donald Trump’s bumbling attorney Rudy Giuliani might have simply blown it yet again when he said the two felonies in question were “not a big crime,” thus flat out admitting Trump’s guilt. But then Trump got in on the action himself.
Trump posted a tweet trying to paint Rod Blagojevich, the former Democratic Governor of Illinois, as some kind of victim. After hinting that Blagojevich was the real victim when he went to prison for corruptly trying to sell a U.S. Senate seat to the highest bidder, Trump added “If that doesn’t tell you something about what has been going on in our Country, nothing will. Very sad!”
This is a rather bizarre strategy, considering that few people of any political stripe tend to think of Blagojevich as a victim. Our take is that Trump is drawing the parallel simply because Blagojevich is a famous example of a holder of high political office who went to jail for his crimes, and Trump fears that’s the path he’s now on.
Donald Trump may have provided another clue when he insisted on Twitter that prosecutors are “entrapping people for misstatements, lies or unrelated things that took place many years ago.” Interestingly, he’s admitting that his own people are criminals, and then accusing prosecutors of somehow abusing the system by busting his people for being criminals. It’s a terrible strategy, but at this late date, it may be all he has left.
