As the saying goes “Pride goeth before the fall”.
And Trump is about to fall.
Think about it.
He’s been going around the country screaming ‘rigged election’ for weeks, castigating the FBI, the GOP, the entire US media for not falling in line with him, and threatening post-election chaos no matter how large the spread is between the two.
Then, on Friday, FBI Director, James Comey, pops up with a vague letter to Congress saying they found something on Abedin’s laptop with Clinton’s name on it that they’re looking into...and Trump is going out on massive limb, virtually claiming victory, backslapping Comey, and getting keys made for Hillary’s prison cell.
Except for one thing. He’s still going to lose. And his supporters are in for a massive case of whiplash when that sinks in.
With every passing hour we learn there’s likely less to anything Comey has found on that laptop than we thought the previous hour. Yet, Trump is out there acting like the president-elect 10 days before the election.
Just how effective will his post-election rallying cry of ‘rigged election!’ going to be then? It was rigged, then they were ‘going to win’ because the FBI ‘got courage’, and now they’ve lost anyway?
My guess is, a lot less than it might’ve been had he not been prematurely dancing on Clinton’s electoral grave.