Thursday, March 7, 2024

Trump's court cases

 In case you don't know.... Trump has four court charges against him, and he has already lost one other.  Thomas Edsel summarizes:

"A Jan. 30 to Feb. 1 YouGov survey asked voters whether they knew 
a) that Trump has “been charged with falsifying business records to conceal hush-money payments to a porn star,” 
b) that he “has been charged with taking highly classified documents from the White House and with obstructing efforts to retrieve them,” 
c) that he “has been charged with conspiring to overturn the results of a presidential election and 
d) that he “has been charged with attempting to obstruct the certification of a presidential election.”

Of those surveyed, 20 to 25 percent said they did not know, and 20 to 25 percent said they were “not sure” what the charges against Trump were; in other words, nearly half of those surveyed had little or no comprehension of the array of allegations against him."

In addition he has already been found guilty of decades of business fraud in his New York businesses and has been fined nearly half a billion dollars.
Why are so many uninformed about Trump's crimes?  Because they are locked into propaganda media to get their "news", and the right-wing extremist propaganda media don't tell them the news, just the distortions and lies.   Proof of this is that Fox News had to pay Dominion Voting Systems $787 Million for deliberately lying to its audience (in order to keep them from switching the channel) and telling them that the election had been stolen from Trump and the Dominion voting machines were rigged.  It was a lie. They knew it was a lie. It was proven they knew it was a lie.  They were sued and paid lots and lots and lots of money as a result.
It amazes me how uninformed so many "Republicans" are.  But so it is. It is the way extremist authoritarians overthrow a democracy.