Donnie-N-Clyde, Why Indictments Make Trump So Popular
Some pundits seem continually shocked that Trump’s poll numbers continue to soar, even as indictments mount.
In an era when Hillary Clinton’s electoral defeat in 2016 was (in part) due to the FBI reopening an investigation into her days before the election, many are wondering ‘why legal trouble has made the former president so popular?’
The Answer: Trump is under attack from all the figures who Middle America (rightly) believes are ruining this country.
Trump is being persecuted by sleazy New York prosecutors, who only appear able to prosecute a “crime” when it involves the 45th president.
The same big banks that crashed the economy in 2008, ripped off consumers with fraudulent charges, and closed the accounts of many conservatives, have embargoed Trump.
Silicon Valley firms like Meta and Twitter who were the greatest collaborationists with the CDC and Biden Whitehouse for censoring dissent on COVID, have also banned Trump.
The corporate press loves to hate Trump. They use every opportunity to attack him and his family, just as they attack innocent children at football games for wearing face paint.
The latest installment of the media’s relentless attacks over nonsense came two days after Christmas when anti-Trump media figures were questioning why Melania was absent from the Trump family Christmas photo.
As it turns out, Melania Trump’s elderly mother was hospitalized and the former First Lady was at her bedside when the photo was taken. However, Viktor Knavs, Melania’s father is pictured (far left) with the Trumps.
Notably, Eric Trump, his wife Lara, and their several children are missing from the photograph, as well.
Figures like Bill Mitchell did not conduct the basic journalistic duty of at least “googling it” before they attempted to manufacture stories and make false insinuations about Trump’s personal life. Does anyone seriously believe Melania would abandon her and Donald’s son, Barron, on Christmas, unless her mother’s condition was serious?
Most importantly, Trump has been targeted by the same Justice Department that has targeted Catholics and parents at school board meetings.
By waging senseless attacks against the 45th President, America’s institutions have counterintuitively produced a bond between the former commander-in-chief and the Forgotten Man in America.
Trump is like the gangster who busts through the door and ransacks the bad guys’ hideouts, taking their ill-gotten gains and taking a Tommy gun to their fineries and champagne flutes.
He is to Americans today what Bonnie & Clyde was to Depressioners in the 1930s.
Typically, Americans do not root for accused criminals. Still, Middle America sees how their country has been ruined in recent years and they know it is the “respectable” politicians and social elite who have done it to them. They identify with Trump’s undeserved victimhood and see him as a defiant rebel (who has the resources they do not) to fight back.
This is something Trump understands when he says “I am your retribution.”
(Sorry for embedding a video from ODN, C-SPAN does not embed on substack yet)
Further, Trump’s Truth Social account recently posted this word cloud.
The key word was “revenge”.
Among other words prominently featured were “power” and “freedom”, something most Americans feel they are lacking, and “economy”, something that regular people widely expect to crash.
Unfortunately, DailyMail created the word cloud from a survey online which inevitably swept up slurs used by leftists like “dictator”.
Trump’s troubles are distinguishable from the burgeoning bribery case surrounding President Joseph Biden, whom the New York Post recently dubbed “Joe Bribin’”.
Bribery feels like more of the corruption that Washington D.C. has become accustomed to.
Americans instinctively know bribes are bad. They also know that you do not take bribes when you are doing something good for them.
To the extent Americans are aware of the bribery allegations against Biden, they draw no analogies to the charges Trump faces.
But why haven’t voters moved to other candidates with less legal woes? No one else has Trump’s story.
When you speak to regular people in Texas and other places outside the elite cultural/economic hubs, most will tell you “I would love DeSantis to be Trump’s VP.” Few people seriously object to DeSantis, most are open to him running for president in 2024. However, the connection they feel to DeSantis is currently less than what they feel for Trump.
DeSantis can not say, “In the end, they're not coming after me. They're coming after you — and I'm just standing in their way,” as Trump has. If the Florida governor said it, regular people would not feel in their hearts he was right.
While Trump may be a billionaire, he is nonetheless a sympathetic outlaw, in the minds of everyday Americans. He is Clyde Barrow as much as he is a candidate for president.
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