Donald Trump has never hidden his fascination with Putin. Well, perhaps he no longer seems like a leader in his image and likeness after the recent rebellion of the Wagner Group and his sudden panic attack upon learning that the tanks were headed for Moscow.
If he were Russian, and given the fate of Alexei Navalni, the main opponent of the Kremlin regime, sentenced this Friday to another 19 years in prison for his “extremism”, Trump would be rotting in a high-security hell in Siberia.
His continuous accusations of corruption directed without evidence against the US president, Joe Biden, or his gratuitous complaints of being a victim of “political persecution”, neither one nor the other would be tolerated by his friend Putin, on whom more than suspicion falls for a few poisonings in even minor matters.
Does anyone think Trump would go back to his Bedminster, New Jersey mansion, broadcast live, after being charged in court with conspiring to overturn the 2020 election result? Is it in any head that an autocrat would let a rival insist at the bottom of the plane stairs that he is the victim of a plot hatched by the person in charge of the Government? Not even the craziest and craziest artificial intelligence could think of anything similar. Make game.
Luckily for Trump, the United States is not Russia yet. The “yet” is because the former president vows revenge on all who do not cheer him if he returns to the White House. He just had to look at the grumpy face he wore on Thursday after regaining his freedom. Reporters from the environment assure that he was angry. Not only because of the seriousness of the facts charged, but because of the treatment that the judge gave him, who addressed him as “Mr. Trump” and not with the reverential “Mr. President.” They say that it tasted terrible for him to be reduced to a normal citizen, like one more of his faithful.
Unlike the other two judicial appearances – in New York for the alleged bribery to shut the mouth of a porn actress and in Miami for the alleged theft of state secrets – this time he did not mount a triumphant appearance upon his return to his barracks. He limited himself to a barely minute statement to the press, without accepting questions, where he insisted on accusing his successor of everything that is happening to him without evidence, as if Biden had incited the fascist masses to storm the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
This Friday, after the third accusation and the most serious, he persevered in placing himself in the center of the target. He reiterated that she is the victim of an operation to end the leader in the Republican field by 2024. But he added an unprecedented element. He demanded that the Supreme Court end his judicial nightmare in the purest Putin style: with a stroke of the pen.
He has a sense of ownership. The high court is dominated by conservative magistrates (six out of nine), of whom three were nominated and appointed by him. It gives the impression that he thinks they owe him something, although the Supreme Court dismissed all the cases about the lie of electoral theft in 2020 that have led to this latest accusation, of a magnitude never seen before.
Although he then assured that the magistrates lacked guts, an unparalleled legal argument, he has once again resorted to them. “This is electoral interference and the Supreme Court must intercede,” he demanded from his social network.
“I’m leading in the polls, even against Crooked Joe, but this isn’t a level playing field,” he said.
“My political rival attacks me with a barrage of flimsy accusations and this requires large amounts of my time and money,” he added. “Resources that would have gone to ads and rallies I will spend fighting these radical leftist thugs in numerous courts,” he added.
Thus Trump publicly acknowledged that he deceives his campaign donors. He accepts that he violates the maxim of beggars, that “it is sad to ask, but it is sadder to steal.” Trump asks for money to finance his political career and then diverts those funds to pay the bills of his lawyers, who are loyal, but not cousins.
In fact, according to official data, the former president has the best fundraising machinery. His political action committee brought in more than $105 million. This week he had just $4 million in his accounts after legal fees were paid. His campaign finances are inversely proportional to his poll results and he is in danger of running out of steam if he is forced to cut his propaganda spending.
But the machinery has benefited from the imputations. This week, as soon as the third indictment was announced, Eric Trump, one of his sons, began sending e-mails requesting cash, please.
In another post, his father continued to grease the engine. “I just need another impeachment to secure my election,” he wrote. He knows that the Georgia prosecutor is ready to act on his attempt to reverse the election result in that state. She asked that 11,780 votes be drawn from anywhere. The Putin Doctrine.
