Donald Trump is privately preparing himself for life in prison
Donald Trump is going to prison. His fate was sealed the minute his goons breached the Capitol. Of course we’ve since had to listen to endless hype (on both sides) about how he was going to get away with it all and magically take over the country again. Even after four indictments and 91 criminal charges, we’re still hearing that narrative. But it turns out even Trump now understands that his future consists of prison and nothing more.
Trump is now asking the people around him what prison is going to look like for him. He’s asking if he’s more likely to end up in federal prison or state prison. He’s even asking if he’s going to have to wear a prison jumpsuit. More to the point, Trump is talking about his future in prison so obsessively that it’s now leaking out to the media, in the form of a Rolling Stone expose.
In other words, even with as senile and delusional as Trump has been behaving of late, even he understands where this is headed. No one goes on criminal trial four times and then magically comes out President on the other side of it. That’s laugh out loud silly season stuff, a child’s tale. And even though Trump now often comes off as being the cognitive equivalent of a child, even he seems to grasp that his legal troubles are going to wipe out his political viability before we even get to the next election.
At this point Donald Trump is apparently spending half his time indulging in confused and delusional fantasies about things like Congress magically saving him by shutting down the government (a shutdown wouldn’t impact Jack Smith’s probe at all), and the other half of his time preparing himself psychologically for his upcoming life in prison. Yet the media still wants us to believe that this broken man, whose life is over and who’s clearly giving up hope, is somehow going to be politically viable next year. Silly season indeed.
