Donald Trump goes off deep end as first Trump-Russia prison sentence handed down

| 6:54 pm EDT April 3, 2018
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Donald Trump spent thirteen hours ranting and raving on Twitter yesterday, a rare display of stamina by his standards. Then he woke up early this morning and promptly resumed ranting in increasingly bombastic fashion. His topics and targets have been too scattered and semi-coherent to fit into any single particular category, but there’s no escaping what just played out in the Trump-Russia scandal while Trump was acting in such agitated fashion.

While former Trump advisers Michael Flynn, Rick Gates, and George Papadopoulos have already agreed to plea deals which will require them to serve time in prison if the judge in each case ends up seeing fit, none of them have not yet been sentenced to any particular prison sentence. So when Gates associate Alex Van Der Zwaan was sentenced to thirty days in prison by a judge this morning, it marked the first official instance of a prison sentence being handed down in the Trump-Russia scandal. Van Der Zwaan’s only crime was lying to investigators, and he ended up turning over evidence against Gates in the end, yet he’s still headed to prison.

Trump has long seemed delusional about the seriousness of the jeopardy he’s facing in the Trump-Russia scandal. Was this a wake up call that prompted him to realize that the Trump-Russia scandal is indeed real, and that he and his family are indeed in real danger of going to prison themselves? If so, it would explain why his frenetic ranting on Twitter has launched into overdrive since yesterday morning, which was when the media first began talking about the fact that Van Der Zwaan’s sentencing hearing was today.

In any case, Donald Trump is now resorting to tweeting about a “Caravan of People from Honduras” and “Cheatin’ Obama” while launching attacks on people like CNN boss Jeff Zucker, whom he’s illiterately dubbed “Little Jeff Zuker.” Trump is acting like the he thinks the world is about to cave in on him. If this wasn’t a response to the first Trump-Russia prison sentence, then the most likely other explanation would be that he knows something we don’t about something ugly that’s about to drop.