This is a very short and simple diary. Any even moderately educated person knows that any defendant has the right to testify in their own defense if they choose to do so. , If a person paid attention in high school, but lacked the opportunity to go farther, they still know that Donald Trump can testify in his own defense if he chooses to do so. There is no way to reasonably defend the thesis that Donald Trump is not allowed to testify in his defense in this or any other trial because of a gag order. Certainly, many Trumpers are ignorant enough or are so deep in the cult worship of Donald Trump that they actually believe this as well as any other statement that Donald Trump makes. A strong majority of Trump supporters follow him closely enough to know that he made the claim that he is not allowed to testify in his own defense in this prosecution because of the gag order. I would venture to say that at least a plurality of his supporters know that his claim is not true. My question is how does this not affect their perception of Donald Trump? How do they continue supporting him when they have a blatant lie? These same Trumpers, if they followed this up, would learn that Judge Merchan then corrected Donald Trump’s statement that he was not allowed to testify in his own defense. If he is lying so obviously about this, then shouldn’t this tell them that he is likely guilty? If he were innocent would he lie so transparently about his defense? Shouldn’t that lead them to ask why he doesn’t testify in his own defense since he is legally allowed to do so? Wouldn’t they wonder why he doesn’t testify in his own defense which we all know he will not do?
The only responses that I can envision from them are that (1) President Biden is the devil incarnate and a godless communist socialist abc abc … [but the whole communist socialist thing is easily refuted also as we all know and as I wrote about (and everybody here already knew it long before I wrote about it- it’s not like I was revealing a heretofore unknown secret) and this only means that you don’t vote for President Biden, it is not a reason to vote for Donald Trump] and so I guess the only way out of that is to say that President Biden is an even greater threat to “our way of life” than Donald Trump and, therefore, this imperfect vessel, Donald Trump, must be supported because President Biden is materially worse. This seems like a very difficult argument to make, but I guess with all the lies that Trumpers are begging to be told, then perhaps, somehow, you get there and (2) Anything is okay so long as you “own the libs”.
It is difficult for me to accept the idea that “holy, righteous, God-fearing” fundamentalists are okay with this and what this prosecution has only made more clear, namely that Donald Trump is a morally bankrupt human.
How do you think that the Trumpers who know that Donald Trump is lying when he said justify continuing to support Donald Trump?