Six months ago, Donald Trump held a campaign event in New Hampshire, where the indicted former president suggested he was prepared to be incarcerated. “I don’t mind being Nelson Mandela because I’m doing it for a reason,” the Republican told a group of followers. “We’ve got to save our country from these fascists.”
Evidently, the presumptive GOP nominee is still thinking along these lines. The Washington Post reported:
Former president Donald Trump said Saturday that it would be a “great honor” to be jailed for violating a gag order, marking an escalation in attacks he’s made against New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan and other court officials in a case about to go to trial. … Writing on the Truth Social platform on Saturday, Trump dared Merchan to throw him in jail. He also compared himself again to Nelson Mandela, a political prisoner who became the first president of a post-apartheid South Africa.
Trump, of course, has an unfortunate habit of comparing himself to Abraham Lincoln, and the Republican recently likened his civil fraud judgment to the persecution of Jesus, so perhaps it shouldn’t come as too big of a surprise that he sees a parallel between himself and the iconic Nobel laureate.
As part of Trump’s latest tantrum, the former president published a trio of items to his social media platform on Saturday afternoon, the first of which began, “Crooked Judge Juan Merchan is not allowing me to talk, is taking away my First Amendment Rights, he’s got me GAGGED.”
In reality, there’s literally no evidence of Merchan being corrupt; gag orders against suspected felons are not unconstitutional; and Trump’s claim about not being allowed “to talk” is self-defeating, given that he never shuts up.
In the third of three missives, Trump repeated the same claim about being silenced; peddled a new conspiracy theory about the judge in his hush-money-to-a-porn-star case, before concluding, “If this Partisan Hack wants to put me in…
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