I'm a little slow so others have likely already figured this out by now; Trump is losing everything so he wants to be a martyr. He really does see himself as some bizarre combination of Putin and Jesus. As the legal noose tightens and Jack Smith prepares to drop J6 charges Trump can see there's no way out. He may escape the New York state charges, his friends in Georgia may remove Fani Willis and end that investigation, he may find one or more true believers on the jury in Florida but he's going down in DC for sedition or worse. He will have no friends in DC when the ~12 other elected seditionists understand they will turn on him or go down with him.
We now know Nixon was a traitor and got away with it, (undercut the Vietnam peace agreement as a candidate in 1968), and it's very likely Reagan was also a traitor and got away with it, (undercut the deal to release Iran hostages in 1980), but maybe we'll turn the corner here and put a stop to this nonsense. We'll see.
The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient. - WB
