Asked by CNN’s Manu Raju if he still fully supports convicted felon former President Trump’s comeback campaign, Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell was kind of meh, saying simply “What I said last week, I will say again: this is a case that never should have been brought in the first place, and I think will be overturned on appeal,” rather than being all like “WER GONNA FUCK SHIT UP BECAUSE THAT WAS A COMMIE NAZI SHOW TRIAL THAT BIDEN SECRETLY DIRECTED!”

In a related development, Newsmax copied and pasted a bunch of quotes from The Hill’s originally reported article titled “GOP senators warn judge against sentencing Trump to prison” to compose an article titled “GOP Senators Warn Against Putting Trump Behind Bars” on Tuesday morning. So we’re going to go ahead and link the Newsmax article to give them the credit and traffic for their “work.”

Texas Senator John Cornhole Cornyn told Newsmax The Hill that it would be “further abuse of power,” if “Trump is put behind bars or sentenced to home confinement… I’m very troubled by what I see in the way the courts have been weaponized. It used to be there were some institutions in America, namely the FBI, the Department of Justice, and the courts which were regarded as out of bounds for overt partisan politics but, unfortunately, that’s changed and not for the better.”

North Carolina Senator Ted Budd said it would be “foolish” for the Merchan to sentence Trump to either prison or house arrest, “but when you see the conviction and the rules that he instructed the jury with, it’s completely unfair, it’s unconstitutional, and I would put nothing past him at this point.” Fellow Tar Heeler Thom Tillis said “unless they can pretty quickly find examples of where similar cases have resulted in prison time, it just adds more fuel to the fire that it was [Manhattan District Attorney Alvin] Bragg’s politically motivated decision.” Aside from the obvious that no other defendant was found in contempt ten times so there would be no comparison, it doesn’t sound like Tillis actually all that concerned with Trump actually ending up in prison or otherwise confined.

What makes this story stupid however is that the “warning” part seems, uh, kind of lacking. Like what the fuck are they going to do to Merchan if he sentences Trump to a year at Rikers? Merchan sent Allen Weaselberg Weisselberg – a then-75 year old man with no priors – to that nightmarish fucking place for five months after a guilty plea for 15 white collar felonies so you better believe it’s on the table for Trump too. What are Ted Budd and John Cornyn going to do to Merchan for ignoring their non-existent authority over him? They going to “warn” him more in another shitty Hill article?