TRUMP IS TERRIFIED AND FUND RAISING

At 0726 this morning, Donald Trump posted a declaration on his site, Truth Social, that ended with, “THE FAR & AWAY LEADING REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE AND FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, WILL BE ARRESTED ON TUESDAY OF NEXT WEEK. PROTEST, TAKE OUR NATION BACK!”

(Take note that he used “former President,” not “the President” as he usually does - what happened to The Big Lie that he really won?)

A spokeswoman for the district attorney’s office declined to comment.

Two hours later, a Trump spokesman issued a statement saying that Trump had no direct knowledge of the timing of any arrest, adding, “President Trump is rightfully highlighting his innocence and the weaponization of our injustice system.”

As a point of fact, even if the grand jury did vote to indict Trump on Monday, it would be unlikely there would be a surrender on Tuesday, given the need to arrange timing, travel and other logistics.

Trump’s announcement is having the effect he wanted.

Quiverin’ Qevin. who owes his position to the continuing public blowjobs he gives Trump, posted on Twitter that he was calling for “relevant House committees” to commence investigations into whether federal funds were being used by a “radical prosecutor” for “politically motivated prosecutions against a former president,” a thinly veiled threat to district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg.

More importantly, within 30 minutes of the original Truth Social post, Trump’s campaign was blasting out an email fundraiser, asking “patriots” to show their support in his fight against the “witch hunt.”

There’s the tell. If life doesn’t give you an event to fund raise off of, invent one.

Another tell: when he urged GooberWorld to protest, there was no mention of the word “peaceful.” The threat is out there now: do this to me and my followers will riot again like they did on January 6.

Further: last night, the Trump campaign announced a rally in Waco, Texas for next Friday, March 24. Potentially, this could be following his arrest this week. The area around Waco is still a “hotspot” since the standoff with the Branch Davidians 28 years ago.

Scheduling such an event there, potentially following his arrest - or even without his arrest now that the Goobers have been riled up - might finally net Trump a rally reminiscent of his 2016 Nuremburg Rallies in size and content.

It also helps to have the Chief Twit, unreconstructed dodgy Afrikaner Elon Muck, tweet that such an indictment and arrest will mean Trump will return to the White House “in a landslide.”

Politically, it’s pretty certain that Trump sees an indictment and arrest like this - particularly on the likely charges to be brought by Bragg’s office, which do not involve such things as treason, sedition or insurrection, but rather more “mundane” issues such as whether the money spent purchasing Stormy Daniels’ silence was “properly recorded” in the financial records, and whether a political charge that would be a misdemeanor without the felony of improper finance recording, is not proof that he is being “persecuted.” Such an event - unlike what might happen were the first indictment to be announced be either Fani Willis announcing indictment for attempting to overturn an election in Georgia, or Jack Smith bringing charges of conspiracy to commit insurrection and incitement to riot - will force all the Republicans who are announced as 2024 candidates or preparing to do so to step up and take a stand of public support for Trump against such “obvious harassment.” The charges that would come from Willis or Smith are the kind even top-end Republicans have to think about before they come out in opposition to them and in support of Trump.

Trump has managed, with a bullshit tweet at Truth Social, to turn the national conversation for at least this weekend - if not the rest of the week - into an argument over him, culminting potentially in a political rally big enough to be newsworthy by itself that puts to rest the criticism that his 2024 campaign is “lackluster.”

He hasn’t managed this trick since he was de-platformed at Twitter and Facebook in 2021.

One thing Trump knows is political ju-jitsu. He may be terrified, but he is still dangerous.

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