Four reasons Donald Trump might want to campaign from jail

[Nevilledog]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2023/08/14/georgia-trump-indictment-looms-should-campaign-jail/70586334007/

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Why would GOP primary candidate Trump want to become “jailed GOP primary candidate Trump"? Here are four reasons.

It would allow him to reach peak-victim status

Since he first descended an escalator to declare his candidacy and make America irrevocably worse, Trump’s entire schtick has been playing the victim. Everyone is out to get him, and if they’re out to get him, he suggests to his followers, then they’re out to get YOU.

He gets investigated while in office and it’s a “witch hunt.” He loses the 2020 election and cries that he’s a victim of a “rigged election.” He gets indicted and he’s the victim of a political prosecution.

So what better way to reach the mountain of victimhood than to be “jailed.” Trump can whine ad infinitum about being “locked up by radical leftists” and bemoan the unjust horrors of life behind bars. He’d probably be comparing himself to Martin Luther King Jr. after the second day and posting an all-scraps screed mimicking “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”

It would be way easier than actually campaigning

I have bad news for Trump supporters – your hero isn't one of you, not even a little bit. The former president is a wealthy New Yorker who lives at a country club he owns. Putzing around and pressing the flesh with regular folks at the Iowa State Fair or sweating through a campaign speech in Alabama is not something the man enjoys, regardless of what he says.

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[badhair77]

1. These are believable.

I immediately thought of his loving being a victim but the others are valid, too.

[hlthe2b]

2. #3 Melania might come visit him (I'd bet my last dollar against that one)

#4 Major Merchandising Opportunities... Yeah, no doubt.

[lastlib]

3. Just imagine the "In Jail For YOU" T-shirts he could selll.....

I could see those selling like week-old hotcakes..............

[rubbersole]

4. He is used to sitting on a metal toilet..

..butt not gold and without a toilet seat. There would be an adjustment curve.

[republianmushroom]

5. Well, it would be a first.

[Shermann]

6. Face-to-face meetings with his inner circle nt

[SeattleVet]

7. He should hold his rallies in the prison yard!

Makes it easier for the authorities to contain and detain the crazies.