Down goes Donald Trump’s press conference
When Donald Trump announced the other day that he’d be holding a press conference next Monday to reveal new evidence that he secretly won the 2020 election, most of us just rolled our eyes. Trump pre-announces these kinds of things to try to get us all riled up so we’ll fret over it, and then they either end up being a total dud or they never do happen. Few people get riled up over his stunt announcements anymore, but he keeps trying the same old trick over and over.
The kicker is that it’s falling apart already. I predicted that there was less than a 50-50 chance this press conference would even end up happening, and I think a lot of you saw it the same way. Sure enough, now Trump’s own lawyers and legal advisers are leaking to the media that it’s a terrible idea and that they’ve advised him to cancel it. Of course this is what any attorney would tell Trump. He just got indicted for his fraudulent actions in relation to the 2020 election, and now he wants to get up and commit even more fraud in relation to the 2020 election? At best he’ll look like an idiot and fail to change a single mind. At worst he’ll end up further incriminating himself and make it easier for prosecutors to convict him at trial.
We’ll see if Trump ultimately goes through with his press conference on Monday or not. It wouldn’t be the first time he’s stupidly gone directly against his attorneys’ advice. But it’s only Thursday and we’re already at a point where his attorneys are using the media to try to embarrass him into canceling it. If he still goes through with it, it’ll be such a debacle that it could leave him (once again) looking for new attorneys.
What stands out the most here is that the public doesn’t really care anymore. Trump can hold his event or not hold it, and most people are just going to yawn either way. No one is sitting around worried that his press conference will somehow magically put him in the driver’s seat. Even his base seems too tired to care anymore. Donald Trump is now, for all intents and purposes, Mike Lindell.
