American policy is conjugated conditionally.
It’s another “what if…” test. It hasn’t happened yet. It is not even known with certainty when the criminal charges against former President Donald Trump will take place, if any, a fact that would really be historic in the United States, because it is something that has never happened.
However, the loudspeaker that Trump still has, as if he were still in power, has caused the entire country to be aware of whether the Manhattan prosecutor, the Democrat Alvin Bragg, announces possible charges for the alleged bribery of the porn actress. Stormy Daniels.
It happened on the eve of the 2016 elections to silence an alleged sexual relationship with the then Republican candidate for the White House.
Although his lawyers issued a statement stating that they did not have any communication, Trump used his social network and assured that he would be “arrested” this Tuesday. And, evoking his involvement in the “wild” mobilization (in his terminology) on January 6, 2021 to revoke his electoral defeat, the former president demanded that the people take to the streets.
“We have to save America. Protest, protest, protest,” she wrote.
Although there have been no incidents and no demonstrations since he launched that message on Saturday, his initiative has changed the pace of the news and has achieved a clear propaganda effect.
As he has already announced that he is a candidate for the Republican nomination in 2024, he also accused Bragg of “criminal interference in a presidential election”, using a “politically motivated accusation”.
This has caused his allies, Republican figures and even rivals in that possible race (former Vice President Mike Pence) to close ranks and consider that all this is the demonstration of a corrupt initiative.
The Trump campaign immediately began using the messages on its social network as a claim to boost its fundraising machinery. And, above all, to put pressure on what is supposed to be his main rival among the conservatives to determine his candidate in the next elections.
The governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, had not said a word, and this was seen by Trumpism as an affront to the leader. DeSantis spoke yesterday and it seems that his assessment of his case did not please Trump.
“I don’t know what it means to pay money to a porn star to ensure the silence of some kind of alleged relationship, I can’t talk about it,” he said during his appearance.
“What I can talk about is having a prosecutor who ignores the crimes that occur in his jurisdiction and prefers to go to a case from years ago and try to use something from a payment to a porn actress to pursue a political agenda,” he said.
Although he insisted that Bragg is financed by George Soros, the evil of conspiracies, Trump’s entourage was upset that, in his interpretation, DeSantis pointed out that this instrumentalization of justice “is not a real issue,” according to an e-mail. of his campaign. That he claimed that in Florida he spent his time “on important issues” upset them.
“So DeSantis thinks the Democrats’ instrumentalization of the law to impeach President Trump is a fabricated circus and not relevant,” Donald Trump Jr., the eldest son, tweeted. “Sheer weakness. We already know why he was silent all weekend…he is totally controlled by the opposition”, he insisted.
The former president was particularly annoyed by the reference he made to paying a porn actress and mocked the governor’s sexuality by baptizing him Ron DeSanctimonious (meapilas). “In the future,” he wrote, “he will know of false accusations, as he grows older, wiser and more well-known, when he is unlawfully assaulted by a woman. He will fight it like me ”.
