Don Gets his Con Going

 

by Pa Rock

Citizen Journalist

In a crass political move that was obviously designed to rile up his supporters, Donald Trump announced yesterday over social media that he expects to be indicted and arrested next Tuesday in New York on one of several significant legal proceedings against him that are currently working their way through the courts.  The particular case for which he expects to be (temporarily) arrested involves hush money payments that he allegedly made to a porn star to keep her from repeating stories of their sexual liaisons, stories which could have cost him conservative evangelical support during the 2016 presidential election.         

According to his own attorneys, Trump has received no official notice of impending indictment or arrest and is instead basing his claim on press reports.  He ended his social media announcement with a call for Americans to rally to his side and "PROTEST.  TAKE OUR NATION BACK."   At another point in his string of tweets on his own Truth Social, Trump expanded his call for public action to:  

"THEY'RE KILLING  OUR NATION AS WE SIT BACK & WATCH.   WE MUST SAVE AMERICA!   PROTEST, PROTEST, PROTEST!!!"

The call-to-action sounded startlingly reminiscent of an earlier version more than two years ago when Trump and his enablers encouraged people to come to Washington, DC, and protest on January 6, 2021, the day that Congress certified the 2020 election results - a protest demonstration that resulted in multiple people being injured and even killed, serious threats to the safety of public officials, and significant damage to our nation's Capitol Building.

Many Republican politicians slithered forth yesterday to hiss their support of Trump's continuing martyrdom, with former vice-president Mike Pence talking of "political persecution," Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene speaking of "communists" being involved in the legal effort to bring down Trump, and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy wailing about an "outrageous abuse of power" on the part of Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan District Attorney who is pressing this particular legal battle against Trump - one of many.

Barring an as yet unforeseen public disturbance with regard to an indictment and arrest of the former President, the process could - according to CNN - go something like this:

"Trump's US Secret Service detail would deliver him to the Manhattan district attorney's office for fingerprinting and then taking mugshots in offices of the district attorney's detective squad.  As is customary in cases where a defendant is allowed to voluntarily surrender after arrest processing, the former president would be brought directly to an arraignment before a judge where he would likely be released on his own recognizance."

Then Trump could rush straight home to Mar-a-Lago and spend the rest of the day posting appeals for public donations for his defense fund on social media.