OUTSIDE TRUMP’S CRIMINAL TRIAL, CALLS FOR KILLING MEMBERS OF THE MEDIA

“Kill the Media — We Will Eradicate All of You.”

Why it doesn’t matter if Trump is found guilty in this criminal trial

Jan 6, 2021. Lawmakers evacuate the floor as it becomes clear rioters have breached police lines. Many of these same lawmakers who fled the violent rioters recently introduced a resolution to minimize the invasion and absolve Trump of any responsibility for sending the mob he tried to join. Trump was prevented from joining the mob heading to the capitol by his own Secret Service detail, and spent 187 minutes ignoring desperate pleas to stop the violence. Image: Associated Press; Photographer, Pulitzer Prize winner Scott Applewhite.

It doesn’t matter if Donald J. Trump is found guilty in this criminal trial. We already know who he is.

In closing arguments in Trump’s current criminal trial, Trump lawyer Todd Blanche argued that every campaign is a “conspiracy to promote a candidate — a group of persons trying to help a candidate win.”

One group of “persons trying to help a candidate win” was outside the courthouse today. They had a threat for our free press:

As reporters await a Biden campaign news conference outside the courthouse, Donald Trump supporters demonstrating in the park are shouting profane taunts targeting President Biden, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg — neither of whom is present — and the press, including “kill the media” and “we’ll eradicate all of you.” — Washington Post

Trump has already lost four different trials in the past two years. And he is descending into full narcissistic collapse and dementia over the course of this, his third trial since last April. That fact has become increasingly apparent to…