That the fanboys had known Trump's indictment on the gravest of his crimes against democracy was coming brought no comfort to them as they reacted to the news of his legal jeopardy sharply increasing on Tuesday. This roundup was a very long time coming and savors their pain accordingly.
"The funny thing is you people think that there is not going to be a repeat of the fraud in the 2024 election as was the case in 2020. And that no matter what happens, no matter what they do to the man, or how much your freedoms keep getting taken away, the most that all of you will do is simply write angry comments in websites" – The current top comment on the Daily Caller article "Donald Trump Indicted For Third Time," written in a comment on the internet. That said, we could certainly buy that this guy is a Capitol rioter currently out on bail or already did time for it.
"No reasonable prosecutor would pursue this" – Top comment on TownHall's article. Nice inversion of the "No reasonable person" line from one of the famous unindicted co-conspirators.
"0bama, Biden and Hillary tried to illegally overturn the 2016 election using dirty FBI agents, dirty judges, and fabricated evidence to frame Trump associates. Proven. In. A. Court. Of. Law. If they're not guilty of insurrection, no one is" – Top comment on the Breitbart article "Indictment 3.0: Jack Smith Indicts Trump Day After Hunter, Joe Biden Implicated," because lol they had to mention the Bidens in the headline to remind readers of the whole point of the GOP's "investigation."
"What unmitigated bullshit" – Top comment on PJ Media's article.
"Dems are trying to do through the legal process what they couldn't do through TWO impeachment. Having read the indictments and hearing Jack Smith's presentation I don't think I've never seen a more political document and poisonous presentation in the 45 years I've been paying attention to DC politics" – Top comment on the Fox News story "Special Counsel Jack Smith says Jan 6 'fueled by lies' from Trump, praises 'heroes' who defended Capitol." The impotent rage is strong with this one.
"Be useful, Kev. Call the House back to Washington" – Top comment on the Gateway Pundit article "Speaker McCarthy Statement on New Trump Indictment: 'Attempt to Distract from From the News and Attack the Frontrunner.'" Yeah, good luck with that. The House isn't back until next month.
Weep for your nation. Justice is dead. In its place, raw authoritarian persecution.
We have once chance to revive it: 2024.
- Stephen Miller (@StephenM) August 1, 2023
"They always wanted to convict Trump of a felony so that they can have that narrative that Biden is running against a felon. Skittish moderate voters will vote against Trump just because they hear he is a felon. If we nominate Trump, we will forfeit this election to Biden" – Top comment on RedState's article "The Judge Assigned to Trump's January 6th Indictment Is Going to Be a Nightmare."
"Figure it out, the only thing the democrats have going for them is their sick obsession with Trump and using racism as a means to keep a segment of the population down and dependent on the government, while at the same time keeping America divided" – Top comment on Newsmax's article.
"I would like them to try to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Donald Trump believed that these allegations were false" – Trump lawyer John Lauro on Fox News, via Maggie Haberman.
At this point, wouldn't be surprised if Jack Smith actually tried this. pic.twitter.com/xdg5gwaxnv
- House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) August 2, 2023
"They had to turn the attention away from Devon Archer's bombshell testimony yesterday. I wonder how long it will take for the citizens of the United States to realize that this is truly election interference" – Top comment on the Daily Wire's article. Lol at what this asshole thinks counts as "election interference" and what doesn't. Also if "the citizens of the United States" didn't "realize" that after the first three indictments then they probably won't on the fourth one.
"I feel the notion of a Trump indictment related to the events of January 6th is further evidence that federal agencies have been corrupt and weaponized for decades by the DC Uniparty… Nothing surprises me anymore. My sympathies go out to Trump for everything he has endured for the American people due to the corruption in DC" – Jacob "QAnon Shaman" Chansley to Newsweek.
"What a horribly corrupt government we now have. It's been bad and getting worse for a while, but it's now gone over the top. This country is finished" – Top comment at PowerLine Blog.
It's an assassination by other means. There's no turning back from this moment. The 🇺🇸 is officially occupied by a hostile, demonic regime. Shed all childish delusions and naivety. Comply when you must, resist when you can. The shadow of a new dark age is upon us.
- Cernovich (@Cernovich) August 1, 2023
"He may well be baiting them but he's also grabbing the headline and not only asking the pertinent question: 'Why did they wait so long?' But also, answered it: 'Campaign Interference' He's often ahead of them and supplants their narrative with the truth of their agenda front and center before they act. Masterful" – Top reply to a post on QAnon fan site GreatAwakening.win featuring a screenshot of Trump's Truth Social post announcing he'd been charged in the post-2020 election coup plot. "It's as if…the Patriots are in control 😉" the OP writes in response.
"Funny, From before Trump was elected the democrats and the main stream media spewed propaganda, then Russia,Russia,Russia, then Ukraine, Facebook, to name just a few, all could be considered election interference" – Top comment on "OAN's article."
Media: "Congressman Higgins, if Biden manages to have Trump convicted, is Ron Desantis plan B.?"
Me: "Lady, are you in a coma? Yeah, We the People have a plan B. That's not it." pic.twitter.com/vI3EUubFW2
- Rep. Clay Higgins (@RepClayHiggins) August 1, 2023
And we'll wrap it up with angry racist redneck Louisiana Congressman Clay Higgins threatening violence with more subtlety – though not much more – than he did after Trump was charged with stealing classified documents from the White House and hoarding them at Mar-a-Lago. Fun stuff.