Over on Fox News, even Trump’s naps are a power move. The reality is different—and no one knows it more than Trump himself.

I greatly enjoyed this part:

Trump has been angrily venting about one of his lawyers, Todd Blanche, ever since the trial began.

He has griped that Mr. Blanche, a former federal prosecutor and veteran litigator, has not been following his instructions closely, and has been insufficiently aggressive. Mr. Trump wants him to attack witnesses, attack what the former president sees as a hostile jury pool, and attack the judge, Juan M. Merchan.

  • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
    68·
    5 months ago

    This headline is stupid and shows how many on the left still don’t understand Trump or his followers. The article goes further:

    Because Donald Trump must always be seen as wielding absolute mastery over his hapless, flailing opponents, he and his propagandists want you to believe his hush-money trial in Manhattan has proven nothing but a smashing political success for him.

    Here’s the rub: it doesn’t matter. None of this does. Trumps followers believe this regardless of the reality, and the truth doesn’t matter. It never did. For whatever happens, they’ll believe whatever they want.

    • ulkesh@beehaw.orgEnglish
      16·
      5 months ago

      I’m pretty sure many on the left know quite well that Trump and his followers are all pieces of shit.

    • Dippy@beehaw.org
      1·
      5 months ago

      Trump support is a spectrum, now an awful chunk will rationalize or dismiss anything. But there are those around the edges of verdant support who can become uneasy as they learn more.

      • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        5 months ago

        verdant support

        Perhaps you meant “ardent support”? “Verdant” means ‘green’, and is a word you would use to describe a lawn or shrubbery. Perhaps a forest.

    • flying_sheep@lemmy.ml
      1·
      5 months ago

      If you read the article, you will see that two thirds (so also his voters) take the hush money trial seriously.

      • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        5 months ago

        His core followers, the ones I’m referring to, are that other third.