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Thursday open thread: Oh? Has Weisselberg flipped?


Well, well, well.

News came out yesterday that Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg's grand jury looking into Donald Trump's hush money payment to Stormy Daniels was going to take a scheduled break for the month of April.

Cue the wails and lamentations. "WE KNEW IT! NOTHING WILL HAPPEN TO TRUMP! HE'LL GET AWAY WITH EVERYTHING AGAIN, LIKE HE ALWAYS DOES!"

That reaction was predictable. The outrage farmers only thrive if they have outrage to farm. It's their bread and butter. It's how they generate clicks, engagement, and talk show bookings. Rather than giving their audiences rational analysis, it's much easier—and more profitable—to keep them on permanent fury.

(Of course, none of us on this blog fall for that boolchit, because we are perspicacious and sagacious.)

Then this came through at the end of the day:
Now, you all know I'm positive to a fault, even when it's hard to be. And I've always said that it wasn't a matter of if Weisselberg would flip, but when. And one must ask: has he flipped? Has being abandoned by Trump to fester in a prison, an old man in the general population, finally worn him down? At Trump's rallies he lauds his criminal thugs from January 6th; nary, if ever, a mention of Weisselberg. As with Trump's one-time consigliere, Michael Cohen, once you've outlived your usefulness to the Rat, then you are sent down the memory hole. Weisselberg is the faithful retainer who has served the Trump clan for decades, and he's been discarded like a half-eaten meal.

If he's flipped, that would explain DA Bragg's delay. (Again, this was a planned suspension of the grand jury. But it may have come at a fortuitous time. And the jury can be called back at a moment's notice.) Severing ties with Trump's lawyers certainly gives credence to this. As does the strange affair of his former daughter-in-law Jennifer and the DA a couple of weeks back.

As I say over and over for those in the back: This won't be resolved in 42 minutes, with commercials added. This is real life. And as the latest issue of The Week so astutely says, Stormy Daniels is the least of Trump's problems, and it's big enough. Trump and his movement need not only to be set back; they need to be obliterated, and the earth salted where they lay so that nothing shall ever grow again. This isn't whiffleball. This is hardball, and we must take it as seriously as it merits. It will all unfold as it should, in the proper time. Whining that it's taking too long helps no one. Settle in, and let the process work out. Trump will face justice. And it will be terminal.

This is your open thread.

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