Friend, 

Get ready. We’re about to go down the political rabbit hole…again. Tomorrow, a former President of the United States (spoiler: not Jimmy, Bill, George or Barack) will likely be arrested for arranging the least quiet hush money payment in the history of hush money payments. 

And he couldn’t have planned it better. He wants this. 

Predictably, Donald Trump is calling the MAGA faithful to take to the streets for political protest (something tells me they won’t be following the First Amendments’ right for peaceful assembly). 

Now, I’ve got the popcorn ready for tomorrow. If I can get a glimpse of a Trump mugshot or him being hauled away in cuffs it’ll make my day, month, and year. I’ll be set. (Side note, do you think they make handcuffs small enough for his tiny orange paws?)

But as glorious as that image will be, don’t expect it to solve any of the political mayhem Trump has unleashed. In fact, it’s fair to say that somewhere deep inside his twisted mind - he wants this.

 Here’s what’s going to happen. 

1. The MAGA base is already going rabid. They’ll be more united than ever politically and the threat and act of political violence will exponentially increase overnight. 
2. The Washington lobbyists, big hedge fund donors and the gentry GOP will try to rally around DeSantis as the safe alternative, to absolutely no avail. 
3. Trump will make bail and walk right into the GOP nomination.

Yep, Trump’s arrest locks in his front-runner status and we’ll get a new depraved party line from the formerly Grand Old Party. 

Something like… “sure he’s a criminally-indicted, lavishly corrupt, 2x impeached, Putin- loving, spray tanned mound of evil who ordered a terrorist attack on the Capitol and tried to steal an election. But it’s better than supporting Joe Biden and his Antifa BLM movement that will impose sharia communist woke law.” (I know that makes no sense, but have you met the MAGA GOP?)

No Republican will break cover and do the right thing. I don’t care if it’s Nikki Haley, Kevin McCarthy, Elise Stefanik, or Ron DeSantis…or any of the joker “problem solvers”...they’ll all bend the knee.  In fact, every single candidate running for President in 2024 is defending the man say they’ll beat. Just today, Pudding Fingers Ron attacked the prosecutor on Donald Trump’s behalf. Sit Ron. Stay. Roll over. (And please, play dead.)

Of course, 99.999% of the party will parrot whatever Trump says. Whether he’s in a jail cell or elbowing his way through Mar-a-Lago’s build-your-own taco bowl buffet line, he will be the GOP’s nominee for President. 

Too many folks think this indictment ends Trump…including a lot of disaffected Republicans, independents, and way too many Democrats. It makes him stronger. It makes the election of 2024 tougher to win. We’re making fun of his sycophants and boot-lickers, but the threat is real and the fight it on.

As always, it’s up to us to beat him

-Rick

@TheRickWilson