This time, Trump is deploying his typical strategies of nuisance lawsuits and favor-trading to evade justice.
Trump is leveraging the fears of another January 6 — or worse — in hopes that it will intimidate law enforcement into backing down.
Trump, of course, immediately endorsed the threat by posting the video on his likely soon-to-be-bankrupt Truth Social network.
Trump has also been turning up the temperature generally by returning to his claims that President Joe Biden should be ousted.
On the contrary, this is all the more reason for the DOJ to go forward and prosecute Trump for his crimes.
But Trump simply has a harder time promulgating his bullshit when there's a countervailing narrative out there underpinned by facts.
There may, if Trump is prosecuted, be some violence, especially at the hands of his most deluded followers. »