Dear America, this is a former President of the United States...

[ShazzieB]

49. I think Trump may be more afraid of Jack Smith than he ever was of Garland.

And he probably has good reason to be. He knows that Smith has one job, and that one job is Donald J. Trump. The Orange Hellbeast doesn't like that one bit!

I think he sounds this desperate and unhinged because he's never felt this personally threatened before. In the past, he's always gotten away with stuff by lying, denying, and shifting blame. Those were the only things he's ever learned how to do, and they've always worked for him until very recently. I think he senses that his usual tactics are not working as well as they used to, and he's starting to panic.

Anyone who thinks he's some kind of criminal mastermind is mistaken, imo. He's not that smart; he's just been really lucky so far. He's bold, audacious, willing to take risks, and completely without shame, and those qualities can get a person pretty far. Unfortunately for him, he lacks 2 important things: common sense and good judgment. As a result, he doesn't know how far to push things and when it's time to back off.

Add that to the fact that he is absolutely incapable of accepting a loss (as in the 2020 election), and you get a guy who was crazy enough to think he could overturn an election and spit in the face of the entire federal government. Smart? I don't think so.