Donald Trump confesses to Florida election crime just to harm Ron DeSantis
The 2022 midterm elections have finally proven to everyone that Donald Trump is indeed every bit as unpopular and non-influential as we’ve spent the past twenty-two months saying he was. At this point Trump has no realistic 2024 prospects, and is only relevant in the sense that everyone is waiting for him to be indicted for espionage and arrested.
Trump seems to understand that his political relevance is fading by the minute, and so he’s going to great lengths today to try to get himself into the headlines. First he made a point of calling himself a “stable genius” again, even though he has to know how poorly it played the last time he used that phrase. Now Trump is doing something far more substantive: he’s confessing to crimes.
Trump announced on his social media network today that in 2018 he ordered the FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s office to prematurely stop the vote counting in Florida, and that this single handedly allowed Ron DeSantis to declare a narrow victory. Trump is framing his actions as an attempt at stopping the election from being “stolen.” But the actions he’s describing are felony election fraud.
This is the same thing he got caught doing in Georgia during the 2020 election, and that he’s now under criminal investigation for at the federal and state level. The difference is, he was more blatant about it in 2020, and got caught in the act. The 2018 election in Florida did seem highly suspicious at the time, going the complete opposite of the way every other demographically similar state played out in that same election cycle. But there wasn’t any evidence that Trump had the Feds block Florida officials from finishing the vote count.
Trump could simply be making this up. That’s how far gone Trump is. He’s openly confessing to a four year old felony, and we’re left trying to figure out whether he’s making it up. But either way, Trump just put the public’s focus on the suspicious manner in which DeSantis was very narrowly elected to begin with, in a way that scandalizes DeSantis and portrays him as a weak candidate – even as DeSantis is hoping the media will portray him as dominant and inevitable.
At this point Donald Trump does have the benefit of knowing, deep down, that he’s likely on his way to prison no matter what. This means he can confess to a 2018 felony like this, and it doesn’t really change anything for him; he’s already set to be indicted on more serious and easily proven charges. If Trump consciously or subconsciously understands that he’s going down anyway, he doesn’t really have to worry about how much he harms himself in the name of trying to take his designated enemies like DeSantis down with him.
