In a Monday article titled “Jailing Trump before RNC convention would seal red victory, GOP predicts,” the Washington Examiner quotes from far right dipshit Wisconsin Congressman Derrick Van Orden who warns libs are going to be very, very sorry if they throw the fat fuck in jail, because if they strike him down he will become more powerful than they ever could have imagined.
“I think the Democrat Party better be very cautious because if the [past] sitting president of the United States can’t attend the convention in person, they are essentially electing Donald Trump as president. I think it’ll fire up the Republican base to the point where it’ll be unstoppable. And I think independent folks, like I just said, are going to say, ‘We don’t want this. This is not the United States of America that we want to live in. We want to be able to have free and open discourse between political parties without having to worry about being jailed,’” said Van Orden, who himself quite possibly entered restricted grounds during the January 6th insurrection.
Committeeman Richard Porter echoed that bravado, saying “If that judge compounds the unfairness of the trial with a jail sentence or that otherwise restricts his freedom to campaign, righteous anger at the injustice will wash away Biden and the corrupt establishment in November.” Utah Congressman Blake Moore said simply “it would be a bad idea” for “Democrats” to jail Trump.
We guess they really want to find out. We do too. Little excites us more than seeing an outpouring of “righteous anger at the injustice” from the MAGA crowd. We’re just as confident as they are about the reaction to their Orange Allah being confined. Not so much about the electoral outcome.
Anyway, the Examiner completely buried the lede in their story, putting Van Orden and Porter’s assurances of nothing less than total victory after the fat fuck’s “martyrdom” above a complete falsehood from the Trump campaign and its wholly-owned subsidiary RNC, writing “While it is still unknown what path Trump’s sentencing will take, the RNC has denied it is preparing for the possibility that Trump would be forced to attend the convention remotely.” Then they quote from Trump campaign minion Brian Hughes who said “At no time has convention planning involved any option other than President Trump in person to accept his formal nomination as President.”
They should try to get on the same page with chair Mike Whatley.
Earlier this month Whatley told Newsmax’s Rob Finnerty the party “will make whatever contingency planning we need to make for” Trump being jailed during the convention. Pressed further, Whatley then said “We’ll cross that bridge but you sort of have to go into this stuff, as we certainly will be planning on it. We’ll be thinking about it, and we’re working on that right now.”
The Trump 2024 Campaign and the RNC are basically Pepsi and Diet Pepsi. There’s no organizational wall between them and not even the Examiner bothers to make any suggestion otherwise in their report, even if the only direct denial quote is from a “Trump senior adviser.”
The only anonymous quote they include is from “a Republican strategist” who says “It would be malpractice not to plan for what Trump himself seems to think is a distinct possibility: that he is sentenced to behind bars before the convention… Imagine the spectacle of him delivering an acceptable speech from the visitor room at a jail or prison. Trump probably wants this to happen.”