Republicans are counting on people not to read the Trump indictment
Donald Trumps critics want people to read the special counsels indictment. Trumps supporters do not. This is part of a striking larger pattern.
June 12, 2023, 1:19 PM EDT
By Steve Benen
Scrutinizing the Republicans who scrambled to defend Donald Trump in wake of his latest indictment, a New York Times analysis noted, Few if any of them bothered to wait to read the indictment.
This is demonstrably true. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy slammed the indictment as a grave injustice nearly a full day before the California Republican had any idea what it said. Similarly, Sen. Ted Cruz told his podcast listeners, This indictment is garbage, long before it was unsealed. The Texan a Harvard Law school graduate and a former state solicitor general was condemning a legal document he had not read and knew effectively nothing about.
There were, however, other conservatives who preferred a more literate approach. John Bolton, who served as Trumps White House national security advisor, wrote on Twitter, All American voters should read the full text of the Trump indictment, and then consult their own consciences.
The editorial board of National Review, which I nearly always disagree with, added on Saturday:
It is impossible to read the indictment against Trump in the Mar-a-Lago documents case and not be appalled at the way he handled classified documents as an ex-president, and responded to the attempt by federal authorities to reclaim them.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/republicans-are-counting-people-not-read-trump-indictment-rcna88881
mucifer
(24,659 posts)Lovie777
(14,566 posts)comprehensive reading and writing will be ban in red states.
Alexander Of Assyria
(7,839 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(36,373 posts)The Republican party cannot hold power if people are fully informed.
Bernardo de La Paz
(50,642 posts)Smith is Department of Justice, hence he is automatically corrupt in their minds and everything he signs his name to is false.
The photos in the indictment? They say the FBI ("fibbies" in their lingo) put the boxes there.
Watch them turn on Cannon when she makes her first ruling accepting a DoJ prosecution argument. They will apply sexual slurs and claim she was always corrupt.
But fundamentally, they have been told that the moral panic over transgenderism is the most important item. After all, tRump told them so at that state GOP convention.
SouthernDem4ever
(6,618 posts)Lies and misdirection have served them well up until this point, otherwise their sorry asses wouldn't be in the positions they hold and right-wing media would be known as the joke it is.
Alexander Of Assyria
(7,839 posts)Feigning being a legal moron isnt hard, but while an Ivy League law school graduate..that takes a doctoral level of evil!
And a sleeping corporate media
wall to wall propaganda and deflections and projection
so most will forever forget!
Propaganda only works of most of the media plays along
is it working?
SouthernDem4ever
(6,618 posts)They don't want to know the reality side of things. If someone from Harvard goes along with this, you think they just might be in it for the money?
kimbutgar
(23,019 posts)And there would be too many big words for them. I read that a large percentage of his supporters only just have a high school diploma. More college educated people voted for President Biden than the orange maggot.
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)I have little hope the pundits of Fox news will read it to their audience....they know better.
IronLionZion
(46,844 posts)you can indict a bologna sandwich or various other non-human items, etc.
Alexander Of Assyria
(7,839 posts)Excuses for NOT having read it will include the classic the dog ate my indictment! Cant answer any more questions, obviously! Now go away! Wheres Fox?
IronLionZion
(46,844 posts)a political witch hunt
Alexander Of Assyria
(7,839 posts)Not reading it cause its fake
lol
Ivy League law graduates wont even read?!
what questions will media have for them?? They have to read it, can distort it if they like, but cant keep on saying havent read it!
IronLionZion
(46,844 posts)some of them might struggle with reading comprehension or critical reasoning
Alexander Of Assyria
(7,839 posts)There really is zero excuse for an elected LAWmaker to not comprehend what this indictment alleges, in great detail and sufficient comprehension.
Damned if they read, damned if they dont. Damned if I care!
Sweet!
SouthernDem4ever
(6,618 posts)They just made up their mind to support an insurrectionist.
dutch777
(3,386 posts)As can all of the press. Those who note Trump supporters are unlikely to A) read the indictment and B) understand them in an accurate context of the law and national security are right on. And Fox won't help but everyone else can.
LetMyPeopleVote
(153,721 posts)BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)does nothing more than validate the worst parts of what a human can be and still keep his fold so happy.
Poverty increased with Trump, healthcare costs, he was a trainwreck regarding the handling of covid!
It seems they project a lot onto him, which never ceases to amaze me.
SouthernDem4ever
(6,618 posts)Where all people are white christian men with rifles and a supreme court that tells women what to do with their bodies. Don't ask me what the F is mentally wrong with women that buy into that shit.
robbob
(3,629 posts)Shoot someone in the middle of 5th avenue and theyll still support him. It both pathetic and frightening.
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)SWBTATTReg
(23,965 posts)either. The only thing that they read is Faux News.
republianmushroom
(17,175 posts)The Full Indictment Read by Ali Velshi - Prosecuting Donald Trump
https://pca.st/fsq0sld1