If being a convicted felon is so great for Donald Trump, why are Republicans freaking out?
The general response to Trump’s verdict has, in some ways, been a uniformly clear conspiratorial throwback to his two impeachments as well as the January 6 hearings: that all of this can be boiled down to a “Democratic witch hunt.” “This was a purely political exercise,” wrote House Speaker Mike Johnson, who got his job partly because of his own efforts to undermine the 2020 election. Gubernatorial loser and Senate candidate Kari Lake called the trial “a shameful political stunt.
Another messaging misfire came from vice presidential hopeful Tim Scott: On Fox News over the weekend, the South Carolina senator claimed that Never Trumpers—many of whom repudiated the former president nearly a decade ago and may ultimately pivot to Joe Biden—are now going to reenter the MAGA tent over Trump’s guilty verdict. This, again, is a strange assertion when Never Trumpers originally left the tent because of the very shenanigans like his trial.
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