While I wasn't watching it, it happened to be on in the background in an establishment that I happened to be in yesterday and the audio wasn't on but I could see from the expression on the faces of the hosts how insanely happy the hosts are that Trump is getting indicted in Georgia. CNN has always been a seriously Trump-hating network so I suppose it isn't at all a surprise that they would have this reaction.
I don't know how long this went on for, I would imagine the entire day as they bounced back and forth from this and talking about people who have burned to death in Hawaii, which is something I am sure CNN cares considerably less about.
In the little bit of time that I spent looking in that direction while I waited for my food order, I noticed that they were focusing an awful lot on Rudy Giuliani as well. They intentionally chose unflattering pictures of him and kept bringing up how much money Rudy has lost, claiming that he is broke. They seemed to be celebrating the notion that this once powerful (he probably is still powerful) man is presented as now being a complete failure. I doubt that is the case at all. Rudy probably has a ton of money sitting in bank accounts overseas which cannot be traced or touched by the United States government, just like it seems all extremely powerful people do.
They select images that make it appear as though Rudy was scared or guilty or just generally disheveled and this is no accident. This is something I really dislike about the media these days and no, I don't think it is a problem that is exclusively on the left although they do seem to engage in it more frequently since they control most media. A news networks really shouldn't be "happy" that someone is going to court, especially when it is really unlikely that anything is actually going to come of this. I haven't bothered to really look into it all that much because I really don't think anything is going to happen to Trump or anyone else. To be honest, I don't really even know what this entire thing is about but one thing is certain in my mind: This whole fiasco is entirely politically driven. This is very unfortunate because for anyone out there that is joining in with CNN's glee about all this, just wait until the cannon is pointing the other way. The enthusiasm won't be so great when the system is used in this way against "your guy."
If the idea here behind all of these charges is to prevent Trump from winning the Presidency in 2024 I have to say that as an independent voter who knows plenty of other independent voters, this constant throwing of all sorts of lawsuits at the wall hoping that some of them will stick against Trump is actually turning independent voters to his side. I have no love for Trump although I do find him amusing. I tend to vote Libertarian or some other 3rd party because I hate the 2-party system that we have in America. That being said, seeing the entire system go after this man so hard makes me want to support him just to stick it to the machine that is making this happen.
I don't believe that there are very many, or even any, Trump supporters out there that are going to flip sides because of this and if that is the hope behind all of this, it isn't a very good plan. Die hard Trump supporters already feel as though their man is being treated unfairly for challenging the system, and when this stuff just keeps happening, it only makes them feel like supporting him even more.
When I read that the Sheriff in some country wants to personally "book" Trump including taking his mugshots and height and weight I thought to myself that this is just in very bad form and it is not going to go to good places by setting this standard. It's going to come back the other way and we are going to see retribution in other areas of the country that are conservative. There will be no civil war, but the divide that we have in this country is only going to get worse and in my mind the worst part of all of this isn't that Trump is being targeted unfairly, it's that these trials that are almost certainly not going to result in anything actually happening, are expensive and guess who gets to pay the bill? That's right! The average person with their tax money. What a wonderful thing to spend money on.
Jesus, government absolutely sucks. I wish I could move to south of the border. Maybe I'll start studying Spanish with some of the guys who work on our jobsites and prepare for the future. The United States is just getting progressively worse.