It must gall a lot of super-right-wingers to see Donald Trump indicted, arraigned and generally treated like a criminal on the way to the slammer. Most of them fantasized about this scene, of course. They just wanted it to be Hillary Clinton. They wouldn't have called it "Weaponizing the Department of Justice" if it had put her away and outta sight. They'd have called it "The Rule of Law."
It's kind of amazing how many people who brag about being with "The Party of Law and Order" are willing to support a presidential candidate even if it means he could be on his way to the slammer.
I didn't see much of the arraignment today. Actually, no one reading this blog did. We just heard Rachel Maddow and other newsfolks repeating what reporters in the courtroom relayed was happening. I don't know how I feel about the suggestion — in some cases, the demand — that any Trial of Trump be televised. If the Writers Strike and SAG-AFTRA Strike were on then, the producers could have held out for eight months or more because that's how long America wouldn't have been watching anything else.
Transparency is one thing but giving the lawyers and witnesses a stage to perform…well, that didn't seem to have prevented the first trial of O.J. Simpson from turning into something that Barnum & Bailey should have built a tent around.
And I frankly don't understand the argument that Trump can't be found guilty of trying to overturn the election if he really and truly thought he'd won it. Does that mean that you couldn't convict that North Carolina man who fired an AR-15 rifle inside a pizza restaurant in Washington, D.C. because he really and truly believed it was the home of a Satanic child sex abuse ring involving top Democrats?
How about John Hinckley who really and truly thought that he'd wind up sleeping with Jodie Foster if he shot President Reagan?
And through all this, I wonder about Rudy Giuliani who made that long, hard struggle from being the most honored man in America to being Co-Conspirator #1 in what some are calling the greatest crime of this century. That's along with being a known sexist pig and harasser. He's gotta be thinking that in The Tunnel of Life, he should've turned left at Albuquerque.