We just found out Trump’s Manhattan criminal trial will take place half a year before election day, meaning he’ll be in prison well before the election. Which is why many Republicans are entering the 2024 race because they know Criminal Donald will be in prison.
Even as the mainstream media (on both sides) periodically acknowledges that Donald Trump is about to be criminally indicted by DOJ Special Counsel Jack Smith on serious airtight charges including the Espionage Act, the media then immediately goes right back to discussing the 2024 election as if Trump is somehow magically off the legal hook. It’s as if 2024 exists in some alternate universe that won’t be affected by the things that are actually going on in this universe.
But even as the media keeps trying to push this charade, reality has a way of creeping in. And now even former Trump White House lawyer Ty Cobb is acknowledging – on CNN of all places – that Donald Trump is indeed going to federal prison. Cobb says that Jack Smith and the Feds are moving in fast on Trump, and “yes I do think he’ll go to jail."
After Ty Cobb said this on CNN on Wednesday, MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell did acknowledge this moment on his show Thursday evening. But apart from that, the mainstream media – including nearly every host on CNN and MSNBC – is still hyping 2024 as if it exists in a vacuum where Trump’s criminal jeopardy magically doesn’t exist.
Jack Smith’s criminal indictment of Donald Trump is surely coming within weeks at most. At that point Trump will be arraigned and a trial date will be announced, at which point the public will find out that federal trials take place much more swiftly than New York state trials. Once the date of Trump’s federal trial is in place, the public should be able to do the math and start figuring out that Trump will indeed be in prison before the 2024 election even gets particularly serious.
Once the public starts to realize that Trump is going to prison and not the 2024 election, you do have to wonder what the media will do in response. Will the media try to keep its “Trump is a lock for 2024” ratings narrative alive a bit longer by pushing it even more loudly and hyperbolically? Or will the media finally start to acknowledge that Trump is going to prison? After all, Trump’s former lawyer just publicly admitted as much. It’s becoming that obvious. How much longer can the media keep pretending otherwise?
