If you’re not looking forward to seeing some of your crazy relatives in ten days, think how Mary Trump must have felt back in the day across the turkey from her uncle and cousins from Hell. Mary Trump has consistently called the shots with respect to her crazy uncle’s doings and it will be interesting to see if her 2024 prediction comes true, which is: Donald Trump won’t run for office. He will pretend to be doing so up until the last minute so that he can continue his grift, but he won’t actually run.
And maybe he and Ron DeSantis have already agreed upon that. Trump has said on more than one occasion, “You’ll be happy with the decision,” in answer to whether he’s going to run or not. Maybe that translates as, “I, the Dreamsickle Deity have chosen my favorite son, Ron, to take my place.”
Here is Mary Trump on Lawrence O’Donnell’s show last night, after the January 6 Committee voted unanimously to cite Mark Meadows for contempt of Congress.
As pundits continue to weigh in, the inescapable truth is that Trump’s cronies knew precisely what was going on. The Fox News consiglieres chose to whitewash it later and blame it all on Antifa, but that’s hopeless now, since the revelation of the text messages last night.
Jack Holmes, Esquire Magazine:
But the main takeaway is that the president’s staunchest allies knew exactly what was going on that day. The president had summoned his fans to Washington, sent them to the Capitol to disrupt the certification, and did nothing to halt the carnage when they started breaking down doors and windows, hunting the vice president and members of the Legislative Branch. This has not exactly been reflected in Fox programming, including from these stars, in the time since. (Just hours after she sent that text, Ingraham was on air spinning conspiracies about antifa.) But they knew something fundamental: Trump was watching this unfold on TV and doing nothing to stop it. The Capitol of the United States was under attack, and the president didn’t lift a finger.
That alone was a betrayal of his oath of office, and should have resulted in his impeachment and removal. Instead, he is eligible to run again, at which point all of these people will help him try to win, knowing full well that he will reject any outcome of the democratic process that does not suit his immediate needs and desires. They know he will even turn to force, or at the very least look away as some section of his supporters turn that way. That is, they know he is an autocrat who wipes his ass with the United States Constitution and they will support him anyway, all the while calling themselves American patriots.
Couldn’t have said it better myself. Let us hope and pray devoutly that Mary Trump’s batting average holds up and that she’s right about Uncle Donald not running in 2024.
