This wasn’t the response Donald Trump was hoping for

After his arrest and arraignment, Donald Trump was making one unhinged social media post after another, attacking and threatening everyone from prosecutors to judges to witnesses, in an unhinged attempt at… well, who knows? Once you’re a criminal defendant, there’s no strategy in this kind of thing. It just makes it worse for you. So…

After right wingers came up with the idiotic phrase “Let’s Go Brandon” as a stand in for “F*ck Joe Biden,” the rest of us managed to turn that on its head by positively referring to President Biden as “Dark Brandon” any time he did something sly. Now that Biden is officially kicking off his 2024…

Over the weekend Donald Trump told reporters that the Manhattan District Attorney’s criminal case against him had been “dropped.” That was clearly a made-up story, and it’s unclear if Trump was trying to fool all of us or just fool himself. Either way, Trump’s former National Enquirer ally David Pecker testified to the Manhattan grand…

Criminal defendant Donald Trump is supposed to be trying to sell everyone on the idea that he’s somehow magically going to be a viable political candidate in 2024, instead of, you know, a prison inmate. The trouble is, he just can’t stay on topic. At what was supposed to be a political event, Trump went…

Donald Trump keeps trying to put on a show of bravado and force with regard to his indictment, because he knows that right wingers like a strongman. But now that he’s just 36 hours from having to surrender himself for arrest, he’s taking a more sullen tone. Trump just posted this on his failed social…