Fat former President Trump was, obviously, enraged to charged with seven very serious federal felonies, but as CBS’s Robert Costa describes it in a long thread of various updates, he had particular anger toward his closest sycophants who had downplayed the possibility that it would happen. “Too much happy talk for way too long,” one minion told Costa.
Trump’s team are also actually “thrown for a loop” and freaked out that Smith went for it in Florida, which, while the state obviously offers a friendlier pool of jurors and jurists, takes away both the political angle of bitching about Washington DC federal courts and the practical angle of it as there won’t be any delay with a fight over venue that could’ve cost months for Smith’s case. Costa describes law enforcement sources as telling him it’s “a grave, serious case in the eyes of many law-enforcement sources… those who know Jack Smith say he would NEVER bring charges of this nature unless he had tons of testimony and evidence and is convinced he will win” and that Smith is “someone who would hesitate to bring that charge unless it was nailed.”