Ana Marie Cox: Why former President Trump is not fearing a Justice Department indictment. - NBCNewsTHINK
For Trump, the absolute pinnacle of power is to have other people do what you want. Getting them to execute on something stupid and dangerous? Even more evidence he has control over them. He would welcome proof that he spurred armed rebellion! He said as much himself in response to the Jan. 6 committee referral. “These folks don’t get it that when they come after me, people who love freedom rally around me,”on his Truth Social social media site. “It strengthens me.
There are always losers who see attempted insurrection as bad-assery — that’s the misguided pride behind brandishing Confederate flags and a thousand teenage acts of petulant rebellion. But to be found guilty of pilfering paperwork because you wanted to Potemkin village your own presidency? How sad. How irrelevant. How weak.
I want Trump punished, but I don’t mind making the punishment the kind that would hit Trump where it actually hurt — beyond the reality-bending reach of his unthinking minions and the QAnon crowds. Put him in a prison built of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis mentions and Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene memes. There is nothing we can do to him using state power that would put him in as much anguish as being forgotten.
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