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Is MAGA a Political Party or a Brand?
It’s now slightly less than 48 hours since Donald Trump walked into the Criminal Courts building at 100 Centre Street in New York City and guess what? Alvin Bragg is still the DA, Juan Merchan is still the judge, and in THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK -against- DONALD J. TRUMP, Donald J. Trump is still under arrest.
And Donald Trump will remain under arrest until and unless he’s found innocent of the 34 felony crimes for which he has been charged, a process which will probably take at least until the first Presidential debate occurs in 2024.
Being an arrested felon, however, doesn’t stop Trump from shooting his mouth off, the judge having wisely refrained from slapping Trump with a gag order, which allows Trump to act like an idiot and a fool, which is exactly what he did. Yesterday, Trump went on social media and demanded that GOP Members in the House defund the FBI and the DOJ.ouou
Now maybe I’ve got it all confused, but I thought it was those Commie-Socialist-Liberal Democrats who wanted to defund law enforcement. In fact, didn’t Trump predict last week that no cop in New York City would dare arrest him? Here’s part of Trump’s statement to that effect: “HAVING TO DEFEND & PROTECT THE ‘DEFUNDERS’ & ‘COP HATERS’ OF THE RADICAL LEFT THAT WANT TO PUT THEIR GREATEST CHAMPION & FRIEND IN PRISON FOR A CRIME THAT DOESN’T EXIST…”