…so I didn't watch much of the news coverage of Trump's arraignment at the federal courthouse in Miami. I guess I figured I could miss this one because there'll be a couple more before long.
What I guess I find fascinating about this story is how unsupported "his side" of the story is, yet he knows that a certain not-small number of his fans will not only gobble it down but donate money because of it. You have all these legal authorities saying The Indictment is a long, detailed, open-and-shut case. You have his former Attorney General saying "he's toast" and his former national security adviser saying of The Indictment, "This really is a rifle shot and I think it should be the end of Donald Trump's political career."
And after the arraignment, he goes and gives this speech about why he's innocent and how the Presidential Records Acts says he had every right to take the documents at issue…and it doesn't. Here's a fact check by CNN. Here's a fact check by Politifact. Here's a fact check by USA Today. Here's a fact check by The New York Times. Here's a fact check by Factcheck.Org.
There are others around and they all say pretty much the same thing. You have to assume what he's saying now is something he believes will resound with his supporters and bring in more donations, and that when it comes time to go to court, he and his lawyers (whoever they are at that moment) will have something better. I'm real curious as to what that could be.