Going After Me, Coming After You

ABC TV, with its flair for the melodramatic, briefly mentioned on its hantional news broadcast that members of the grand jury in Grorgia who colletively voted to issue anoteher thirteen felony charges against Mr. Trump, were possibly receiving threatening mesages of some sort, and that their home addresses were being published on social media of some sort. The report was rather vague and murcky, with little in the way of specific information,such as the exact nature of the threats or from whom they came, although the implications were and are obvious. Before you, dear reader, castigate the unreliable news media for spewing lies and conspiracy theories or for being too damned liberal, biased, and unscrupulous, bear in mind that, in reality,the major media sources in the United States tend to be reliable, if only because if they weren't they would be eventually driven out of business by those that are., and by the sort of lawausits with which FOX news is intimately familiar. Most are reliable, if not FOX News, which can prove it with massive lawsuit settlements. The seriousness of the ABC News report is substantiated by the fact that the Fulton County Sheriff's Department and the FBI are investigating the allegations. Donald J. Trump woulnd't by chance be involved, would he? He wouldn't be that stupid, would he? Why would even an alleged idiot like Mr. Trump be stupid enough to threaten members of a grand jury who have already done their damage, voted for the indictments,done their work, and gone home? They certainly cannot at this point recant their indictment against Trump, apologize, and say that it was all an unfortunate misunderstanding. Trump's recent impersonation of Al Capone, however, the one paraphrased in this essay's title, does still have an ominous sound to it. The investigation should be simple, straightforward, and fast. Just interview the jury members, and scan social media. We already smell a rat, and suspect that the report is true. But the rat smell doesn't seem to be coming direct from Trump. As the crime boss of a substantial multi million member gang, consisting of both an inncer circle of co sonspirators and a vast, amorphous mob of enablers throughout American bad citizenry, he, the man, has all the pieces in place to get results merely by uttering a single threatening sentence. It kinda reminds you of the mob duly assembled near the White House on January 6, 2021, the one which proceeded on orders from the then President to the Capital building, and the rest, as we say, is history. Trump is verifiably an experienced assembler and dispenser of violent mobs, as current litigation against him clearly attests. And, he has accomplices in all his many forms of criminal activity. But when a cult icon has tens of millions of cult members slavishly granting him his every wish, anything seems possible. Already one crazy lady, spewing racial insults at one of the jugjes before whom Trump is required by law to appear, has beem apprehended, taken into custody, finger printed, and mug shotted. More will likely follow, maybe including the boss himself. As they say in the braodcast news industry, stay tuned for further developments.