Donald Trump clearly isn’t pleased about having been indicted by a Manhattan grand jury, but the former president also seems painfully aware of the fact that he’s facing several other ongoing criminal investigations, each of which might lead to additional charges.
And he’s not handling that especially well, either.
On the investigation into his retention of classified documents, he published an item to his social media platform last night, calling the scandal a “hoax.” (It’s not.) The missive came just days after the Republican, giving a post-arraignment speech at Mar-a-Lago, peddled a series of related falsehoods about the case.
My personal favorite was Trump’s insistence that he was “working with” the National Archives and Records Administration “very nicely” until the FBI showed up at his glorified country club. In reality, of course, NARA practically begged the former president to return the materials he took, but he refused. (He also said that under federal law, he was supposed to “negotiate” with the Archives. That was absurd, too.)
But the threat of an indictment in Georgia also has Trump’s attention. He published this item last night:
Just like New York, the Racist District Attorney in Atlanta, who presides over one of the most deadly and violent jurisdictions in the U.S. (and does nothing about it!), is having an impossible time showing that my ‘PERFECT’ phone call was bad, when none of the many lawyers on the call interjected that I was saying something wrong or improper — Not even a word of admonishment. They never hung up or said ‘how dare you.’ That’s because, as everyone knows, there was nothing wrong with the call!
He pushed a similar line at Mar-a-Lago last week, telling supporters, “Nobody said, ‘Sir, you shouldn’t say that.’ [Nobody] hung up in disgust because of something I inappropriately said, because nothing was said wrong.”
As amazing as this might seem, Trump seems convinced that this line is the…
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