Streets of Philadelphia

[Richard Smith]

Trump never did reschedule that Iowa rally after he postponed it due to “weather.” It’s so obvious he’s not actually running for anything and it’s all just a temporary grift before he goes to prison, and the media is just playing along with his imaginary campaign for ratings.

Why is someone as obscure as the Republican Governor of North Dakota looking at entering the 2024 presidential race? Trump is going to federal prison and it’ll be a wide open Republican primary (even if the media is still pretending otherwise) and they all want their shot at it.

LOL.  You can't be for real.  Baghdad Bob was more credible than this nonsense.  Old Joe rescheduled the entire Iowa primary because he knows he is weak there.  Election interference.  Trump is crushing every other Republican candidate by 30 or more points.  Ukraine Joe is struggling with a vaccine denier in the Dem primary.  Lots of folks run in these primaries to get publicity knowing they can't win.  It's the oldest game in the books.

[Rick Plant]

The media is still pretending to be confused about why Mike Pence, Chris Christie, Tim Scott, Nikki Haley, Asa Hutchinson, and a dozen other Republicans are running for President. Trump is going to federal prison so it’s a wide open GOP field. The media just won’t admit it yet.

[Richard Smith]

The media is still pretending to be confused about why Mike Pence, Chris Christie, Tim Scott, Nikki Haley, Asa Hutchinson, and a dozen other Republicans are running for President. Trump is going to federal prison so it’s a wide open GOP field. The media just won’t admit it yet.

You think the media is colluding with the Trump campaign?  HA HA HA HA.   That one is a keeper.  Even if Trump were made a political prisoner, that doesn't preclude him from being president.  I know that is your ultimate Stasi-fantasy to win elections by imprisoning political opponents, but it still would not keep Trump from being president in a democracy in which he wins the election.  That is how it works until the leftists revoke all our rights.  People vote for who they want to be president.  Again, many people run for president knowing they have no hope of winning.  They get publicity and air time while doing so.  It bolsters their reputation for media jobs and books etc.  Weak sauce.

[Rick Plant]

Trump’s departing attorney is not only quitting ahead of Trump’s indictment, he’s publicly accusing Trump’s other attorney of having incompetently led path down a path of self incrimination.

Trump’s departing attorney is publicly accusing Epshteyn of incompetence. Epshteyn might decide to tell a different version of the story, we’ll see. But when lawyers are publicly blaming each other before the indictment even comes down, it means they expect total calamity.

There’s a reason yet another former Trump lawyer (Ty Cobb from the White House days) is now publicly predicting Trump will go to prison.

This is shaping up to be catastrophic for Trump – and humiliating for his team. Everyone is distancing themselves before the indictment drops.

[Richard Smith]

I like DeSantis and Tim Scott.  Either of those folks are viable candidates.  A DeSantis-Scott or Trump-Scott team would be fantastic.  What an improvement over Ukraine Joe and Cackling Kamala.

[Richard Smith]

Imagine if the FBI under Trump had refused to turn over a non-classified document to Congress to protect Trump from an investigation.  He would have been impeached and the leftist media would have run the story continuously for weeks.  Same deal with Dirty Hunter's laptop and the leftist shooter's manifesto.  All suppressed for political reasons.

"The Federal Bureau of Investigation failed to turn over a document subpoenaed by House Republicans that allegedly details a bribery scheme from then-Vice President Joe Biden.

The agency refused to provide the document Monday in a private meeting with the House Oversight and Accountability Committee. The unclassified FD-1023 document details criminal allegations of a pay-to-play scheme related to the Biden family's business dealings, according to a whistleblower at the agency who spoke with Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa."

[Martin Weidmann]

Imagine if the FBI under Trump had refused to turn over a non-classified document to Congress to protect Trump from an investigation.  He would have been impeached and the leftist media would have run the story continuously for weeks.  Same deal with Dirty Hunter's laptop and the leftist shooter's manifesto.  All suppressed for political reasons.

"The Federal Bureau of Investigation failed to turn over a document subpoenaed by House Republicans that allegedly details a bribery scheme from then-Vice President Joe Biden.

The agency refused to provide the document Monday in a private meeting with the House Oversight and Accountability Committee. The unclassified FD-1023 document details criminal allegations of a pay-to-play scheme related to the Biden family's business dealings, according to a whistleblower at the agency who spoke with Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa."

It's a Republican Senator who says it....   

[Rick Plant]

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?