Timeline
The Emperor Has No Clothes
On Tuesday, June 13th, Donald Trump was arrested and booked in a Miami federal court but his promised protesters failed to show up.
Trump is still the frontrunner to be the Republican nominee, but after being arrested twice and facing multiple criminal investigations, his grip on the Republican party may be slipping. Trump called for “protest, protest, protest,” at his Miami criminal booking, but only a handful of his supporters bothered to show. GOP political insiders are privately worried that Trump’s legal problems will hurt them in the 2024 elections and some Republican leaders are starting to publicly speak out, including Rep. Don Bacon who said of Trump, “I just think the emperor has no clothes.”
Republicans Embrace Political Violence
Since Trump was first elected in 2016, violent threats against members of Congress have increased more than 10 times.
Trump's Republican Party has fully embraced a biblical culture war that is mainstreaming hate speech used by Christian nationalists and white supremacists who believe that armed confrontation with the U.S. government is inevitable. A majority of Republicans now support violence to stop the decline of the “traditional American way of life,” and “declaring the US a Christian nation”.
GOP Attacks FBI to Protect Trump
Jim Jordan's Republican House Weaponization committee shamefully embraces right wing conspiracy theories on live TV.
To shield Donald Trump from criminal prosecution for attempting to overturn American democracy, the GOP Weaponization committee heard testimony from disgraced FBI agents that have embraced right wing domestic terrorists and deep state conspiracy theories. The January 6 Investigation is the largest in U.S. history with over a 1,000 people charged and members of right wing militias convicted of seditious conspiracy by three separate juries. Despite this, a significant number of Republicans still voted to object to the results of the 2020 elections after the Insurrection that day.
Much Ado About Nothing
6 million taxpayer dollars, 4 years of Republican hype, 2 unanimous jury acquittals, and not 1 single piece of evidence supporting Trump's deep state conspiracy theories.
Trump's GOP believes voters are too stupid to care about the truth. So, despite the fact that the 306-page Durham Report failed to produce any evidence of wrongdoing by the FBI, Trump and his Republican enablers are claiming vindication for their crazy deep state conspiracy theories. The truth is that candidate Trump asked for Russia's help on live TV, his campaign had hundreds of secret meetings with Russian agents, and then Russian spies hacked and leaked Clinton's emails to help Trump win the 2016 election.
Republicans Stand By Your Man
Republican primary voters and the GOP leadership are still supporting Trump despite a jury concluding that Trump is liable for sexual abuse.
Trump once famously claimed that he could "shoot somebody," and "not lose any voters." Trump is still the hands down front runner to win the Republican nomination, even after 26 women have publicly accused Trump of sexual misconduct and a jury found that he sexually assaulted E. Jean Caroll. The response from Kevin McCarthy and the Republican leadership proves that power and Party loyalty is more important than holding their own members accountable for unethical or criminal behavior.