It is becoming clearer with every passing day that Donald Trump and his criminal associates are in big trouble. The latest bombshell is the news that special counsel, Robert Mueller, has impaneled a Grand Jury. It's purpose is to investigate Trump's finances and connections to Russia. That has surely put everyone in the White House on edge as the legal noose gets tighter.
Consequently, Fox News is ramping up their obsequious support for the President with ever more ludicrous pronouncements. On Trump's favorite TV show, Fox and Friends, they interviewed Jeanine Pirro, host of Fox's "Justice with Judge Jeanine." The segment featured Pirro unleashing what amounts to an incitement to riot (video below). And Trump thought so much of that that he retweeted it to his fans:
"My concern is, if they end up with an indictment against a family member just to get at Donald Trump when they couldn't get at him, there's gonna be a real uproar - a real uprising in this country."
There is so much wrong with statement. First and foremost, Pirro is setting the stage for crackpot Trump supporters to take to the streets in an outburst of violence. She didn't bother to offer any objection to the uprising she's predicting. That will serve as permission to the StormTrumpers who believe that their Leader is God's anointed savior of the alt-right's America. She is also echoing Trump's own inciteful rhetoric during the campaign. When asked about the prospect of his not getting the GOP nomination he said "I think you’d have riots."
Additionally, Pirro's framing of the subject of indictments was narrowly focused on Trump's family. She seems to be deliberately avoiding any talk of Trump himself being charged with a crime. Of course, any neutral observer knows that he is the most likely target of prosecution. But in Pirro's remarks it's only the family that is at risk. Is that a purposeful deflection?
Finally, the notion that the current investigations would target Trump's family because they can't get to him is downright delusional. The President is virtually dripping with guilt. He has made public confessions to obstruction of justice on national television. His financial conflicts could be unraveled by a middle-schooler with a Scooby Doo junior detective badge. The number of times Trump and those around him have lied and altered their stories constitute a clear consciousness of guilt.
If it were really a concern of of Pirro's that there might be an uprising in the wake of Trump indictments, she would have said something to mitigate it. She would have warned people to abstain from violence and let the courts do their job. She would have shown respect for the judiciary and the concept of justice, after which her show is named. Instead, she and the Fox News regulars chose to denigrate the law in defense of the wannabe dictator they so admire.
The good news is that any uprising by the lawless traitors fighting for Trump would have negligible effect. Their numbers are already in the low 30's and sinking further every day. It wouldn't take long to subdue them. And once the truth is well disseminated, there wouldn't be very many people who would go to the mat for a lying grifter who brought nothing but shame to America.
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