This is off the deep end, even for Donald Trump
Last week Fox News published a poll which said that 51% of Americans want Donald Trump impeached and removed. This number was roughly in line with all the other major polling outlets, but the big news was that it was coming from Fox of all places. Trump threw a tantrum about it, insisting that the poll had to be wrong, and that whoever Fox’s pollsters are, “they suck.” Now Trump has taken things much further to try to disprove the poll.
The New York Post, which is also owned by Fox News boss Rupert Murdoch, has run an article which makes the argument that the Fox News poll can’t possibly be correct. Of course the “evidence” presented by the Post is bogus, as it merely claims that the poll surveyed too many registered independents, and that if some unspecified magic math is applied, the 51% pro-impeachment number somehow becomes 44.9% instead.
It’s bad enough that Donald Trump has cajoled his allies into publishing complete gibberish about why the Fox News poll can’t be correct. This is how far he’s going to try to convince himself that his presidency isn’t collapsing. The real kicker is that, even if the Post’s math were correct, it would still mean that 44.9% of Americans – nearly half of them – want Trump ousted from office.
This is what Donald Trump and his remaining allies are focusing on, even as he circles the drain. Trump can’t stop witnesses from testifying against him. He can’t stop his Ukraine henchmen from being arrested. He can’t do anything to save himself. So instead he’s using his limited remaining capital to convince himself that none of it’s really happening.
