You Will Anyway: Still doesn't have the best advisers

Friday, March 31, 2023

Still doesn't have the best advisers

The indictment that the Manhattan grand jury issued for former President Trump caught both him and his advisers by surprise when it was approved Thursday, multiple outlets reported.

The Washington Post reported that Trump had started becoming cautiously optimistic about the future of the case looking into a hush-money payment made to adult film star Stormy Daniels, and his advisers told him that any possible indictment would take some time if it was issued at all.

[...]

People familiar with conversations between Trump aides and the former president told the Post that some aides started telling Trump he would not be indicted.

The Hill

Who are these people? Everybody else believed it was coming.

The indictment was issued just after reports indicated that the grand jury would not hear additional evidence in the Trump case this week and was set to take a previously scheduled break until late April.

[...]

Two people familiar with the matter told the Post that some of Trump’s attorneys were preparing to take a few days off and were not expecting new developments on the case for several weeks.

So sad. Now all they have to do is get him to keep his mouth shut.*

Stop laughing.

UPDATE 11:09 am:

Shortly after 5pm on Thursday, his 2024 campaign advisers learned from a New York Times alert that Trump had been indicted, catching them off guard in part because they assumed they would hear about it first from the Trump lawyers, who had themselves assumed they would confidentially hear it first from prosecutors.

Though Trump had indicated that he expected to be one of the first people to be told if he was charged in the hush money case, the sources said, when the news actually arrived, Trump appears to have been one of the very last people to find out.

Guardian

Sad!

Sure. Why not ask the Secret Service? They've been expecting and preparing for this for a long time. At LEAST since last Tuesday when Trump bleated that he was going to be arrested on that day.

The time they needed was to allow as many Trump supporters as possible to make arrangements to be in Manhattan when it happens. And perhaps so the orange godking can say that THIS was the Tuesday he was talking about.

UPDATE 11:48 am:

"they need time to find a copy of that movie ‘Dumbo Drop’ (i think) about transporting an elephant via helicopter. "

h/t Sheila

*UPDATE 11:55 am: He's got a whole weekend to hang himself. He just got started.

UPDATE 04/01/2023:

I wouldn't be at all surprised if the judge puts a gag order on him, but I WOULD be surprised if they put him in jail.

UPDATE 04/03/2023:

UPDATE 04/09/2023: As we already knew...

Appearing on MSNBC on Saturday afternoon, the Washington Post's Carol Leonnig said reports that the Secret Service asked for a delay before handing Donald Trump over to the Manhattan court system was something cooked up by the former president's lawyers.

Raw Story

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Life, as Explained in "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead"

GUILDENSTERN: What a fine persecution---to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.

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ROSENCRANTZ : The only thing that makes it bearable is the irrational belief that somebody interesting will come on in a minute.

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GUILDENSTERN: But for God's sake what are we supposed to do?!

PLAYER: Relax. Respond. That's what people do. You can't go through life questioning your situation at every turn.

GUILDENSTERN: But we don't know what's going on, or what to do with ourselves. We don't know how to act.

PLAYER: Act natural. You know why you're here at least.

GUILDENSTERN: We only know what we're told, and that's little enough. And for all we know it isn't even true.

PLAYER: For all anyone knows, nothing is. Everything has to be taken on trust; truth is only that which is taken to be true. It's the currency of living. There may be nothing behind it, but it doesn't make any difference so long as it is honoured. One acts on assumptions.

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GUILDENSTERN : We act on scraps of information... sifting half-remembered directions that we can hardly separate from instinct.

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PLAYER: Life is a gamble, at terrible odds-if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.