What Else Trump Did Thursday Morning Besides Firing His Lawyer

It’s always interesting to see what’s happening on Truth Social because it’s a Rorschach test of Donald Trump’s current thought processes. From what’s up there this morning and what we know from other sources, Trump got up, fired his lawyer, and then boasted about the massive success (his version of the facts) of his interview with Tucker Carlson last night on his platform. Maybe not in that order. He also re-posted a story about “Mediate scum trashing and attempting to intimidate Judge Cannon.” Cannon may be his hero, because she’s as bumbling as he is. In any event, she was on his mind, along with Georgia, because his trial calendar is getting heavy. We mean hevv-eee. And Trump is not helping things by shit-canning lawyers at the last minute.

Where he’s getting that figure or anywhere near it is unknown. Here’s a clip of the video and the numbers beneath it don’t say anything like that.

Ep. 19 Debate Night with Donald J Trump pic.twitter.com/ayPfII48CO

— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) August 24, 2023

You see there’s over half a million likes and almost 50K replies — not all of which are complimentary, I might add. Here’s a screenshot with all the data underneath.

As you see, over half a million people liked it. And 157.5K reposted it. So where oh where is he getting this 200,000,000 figure from? That’s 2/3 of the people in this country, man, woman, and child. Or, maybe that’s worldwide, who knows?

This issue is complicated by the fact that Elon Musk removed Twitter’s ability to measure video views earlier this year. And here’s what’s important: the metric that is on X only displays how many people “saw the post, however fleetingly,” to quote Newsweek, not who watched it. We grant that a lot of people see the post coming through, but clicking on it and watching it, are two different things. Since Musk saw fit to cripple the platform’s measurement capability, we are in the dark about how many people actually “saw” Trump’s interview, meaning opened the X and watched the thing, as opposed to seeing it in the menu of things to click on. In any event, with this caveat, Newsweek is granting that 100K people “saw” Trump’s Carlson interview. Not watched it, “saw” that the thing existed on the platform.

But what difference does it make? We live in Trump Wonderland, where the facts are whatever you want them to be.

The other item on Trump’s early morning to-do list was interesting. Chris Kise, one of Trump’s lawyers, sent a letter to Aileen Cannon asking her to do something about Jack Smith. Mark Levin later picked up on the Mediate article and said that “scum” pretending to be journalists were “intimidating” Judge Cannon. Here’s the letter.

In its brief in the D.C. Case, the Special Counsel’s Office argues that a December jury selection and January 2, 2024 trial date before Judge Chutkan is appropriate, with full knowledge of the schedules of both President Trump and his attorneys between now and the end of that year, not the least of which includes preparing for the May 2024 trial before Your Honor. President Trump opposes a January 2024 trial date in the D.C. Case for many of the same reasons articulated in President Trump’s July 10, 2023, brief to Your Honor in which we responded to the government’s revised scheduling order. (See generally ECF No. 66). As the Special Counsel is aware, there are a multitude of complicated practical issues surrounding President Trump’s schedule, including a six-week trial beginning in October 2023 in New York in a matter brought by the New York Attorney General against President Trump and his companies, as well as an ongoing contested primary for the Republican nomination for President of the United States. This is in addition to preparation for a March 25, 2024, criminal trial brought against President Trump by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. A Special Counsel committed to the fair administration of Justice should never have circumvented this Court’s orders under any circumstance, much less with full knowledge of the various issues presented with these multiple indictments against the leading Republican candidate for President of the United States.

Respectfully, the Special Counsel’s conduct necessitates appropriate action by Your Honor. In addition to blatantly ignoring this Court’s scheduled evidentiary hearing on December 11, 2023, the Special Counsel’s actions appear to be intentionally motivated to prevent President Trump from meaningfully preparing for either trial and to simultaneously prevent him from running a campaign for President of the United States. We are separately seeking appropriate relief from Judge Chutkan, as noted in Exhibit 2, and we respectfully request Your Honor order the Special Counsel to explain its reasoning for arguing for a pretrial and trial schedule in the D.C. Case that conflicts directly with this Court’s current trial schedule.

Respectfully submitted, Christopher M. Kise

If you read the article there is nothing that any sane person could regard as intimidation. It’s just a factual preamble to Kise’s letter. I think the only issue here is that Levin is upset because Mediate reported on the letter at all. Oh well. Reporting what’s going on out there is journalism, not intimidation. As Mark Twain put it, “Journalism is reporting things that somebody doesn’t want reported. The rest is public relations.”

The takeaway that Donald Trump wants you to have, and why he posted these things on Truth Social, as he prepared to go to the hooscow — again — is that 1) He’s a major star; 2) the Forces of Evil are aligned against him.