A New "Sir Story"! Trump Says Many Correction Officers Were Sobbing At The Injustice Of Him Being Arrested In Manhattan: Tears Were "Pouring Down"
"It's a tough, tough place, and they were crying. They were actually crying. They said, 'I'm sorry.' They'd say, '2024, sir, 2024.'"
I’ll tell you, people were crying. People that work there. Professionally work there, that have no problems putting in murderers, and they see everybody. It’s a tough, tough place, and they were crying. They were actually crying. They said, “I’m sorry.” They’d say, “2024, sir, 2024.” And tears are pouring down their eyes. I’ve never seen anything like it. Those people are phenomenal. Those are your police, those are the people that work at the courthouse. They’re unbelievable people. Many of them were in tears or close to it. Many apologized — “We’re sorry, sir, we’re sorry.’”
The story is complete bullshit, of course.
Michael Isikoff (Yahoo News) spoke to a law enforcement source familiar with the details of Trump’s arraingment, who called Trump’s account “absolute BS”. When asked how much of Trump’s story was accurate, the source said, “Zero. There were zero people crying. There were zero people saying ‘I'm sorry.’”
Isikoff wrote that while Trump was in the courthouse he was with his lawyers and Secret Service agents and had contact with only “a handful of district attorney employees at the courthouse and had extremely limited exposure with others”.
Trump, “looking glum, said little during the booking, as did Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s deputies, who were with him throughout the process, the source said.
The only hiccup came when his fingers were too dry for his fingerprinting, at which point district attorney employees provided lotion for his fingers, the source added.
Here is a friendly reminder that on January 4, 2021, Carlson texted a Fox colleague:
We are very very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights. I truly can't wait. . . . I hate him passionately.
Since those texts became public, Carlson has been working overtime to kiss Trump’s huge ass. He introduced one segment of the interview this way: “For a man who is caricatured as an extremist, we think you’ll find what he has to say moderate, sensible and wise.”
I cannot imagine what it must have felt like to sit there for nearly an hour as Trump went on and on — more deranged than ever — and be forced to not explode and yell some of what is racing through your mind, but instead attemnpt to comport yourself so you look mesmerized at being the presence such a well-spoken, handsome, “moderate, sensible and wise” man of the world.
Phillip Bump, Washington Post, April 12, 2023:
Carlson was once unusually willing to challenge Trump (for a Fox News host, anyway) . . . [but this time] Trump was simply allowed to prattle on at will.
He chattered for more than a minute about how court staff and police officers were in tears and apologizing as he was arraigned on criminal charges in Manhattan. For more than five minutes, he riffed on the various “hoax” investigations to which he’d been subjected and his false assertions about the cease-fire in Afghanistan and the classified documents recovered from Mar-a-Lago by the FBI.
Well, really, he rambled for more than six minutes because Carlson's only interjection was to reply to Trump’s inaccurate assertions about materiel left behind by the U.S. military with a sycophantic, “Of course.”
That offering from Carlson is marked as point “A” below, one of only a few times in which Trump’s lengthy riffs actually met with commentary from his ostensible interviewer.
The other labeled Carlson interjections are as follows:
“B”: Carlson replies to Trump’s insistence that “nuclear warming” is more of a problem than global warming with “what you’re saying is demonstrably true.”
“C”: After Trump says that Carlson’s accompanying him on a trip to Korea must have been one of the most incredible experiences of the Fox News host’s life, Carlson replied, “For sure.”
“D”: Carlson began one of his scattered questions by laughing at Trump’s describing his arrest as “the old Soviet process” of charging people with crimes.
Not exactly speaking truth to power.
Regarding “C”, Trump threw in a mention that Carlson had inadvertently insulted Trump’s crush, Kim Jong-un, on that trip. Trump said that did not help him when talking to Jong-un. Carlson apologized. As seen above, MSNBC’s Chris Hayes thought it was hilarious that Fox producers did not bother to edit that part out.
From Isaac Arnsdorf (Bump’s WaPo colleague):
He called the leaders of Saudi Arabia — whose crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, approved the killing of Washington Post opinion contributor Jamal Khashoggi — “great people.” Trump said he and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un “get along great to this day.” And he praised Chinese President Xi Jinping as a “brilliant man” who has “the look, the brain, the whole thing.”
Also
Trump says criminal conviction wouldn't stop him from running for president
“I’d never drop out, it’s not my thing,” Trump said in an interview that aired Tuesday . . . “I wouldn’t do it.”
Trump sues former attorney Michael Cohen for $500 million
He. Is. Completely. Insane. 🤣
https://twitter.com/AntiToxicPeople/status/1646217414017941504
Trump’s handlers mostly hid him from public view for two-plus years for a reason. When he does occasionally surface, you see there’s nothing left of his mind. Rambling gibberish. Now he’s out there because he’s desperate, and everyone can see he’s senile.
https://twitter.com/PalmerReport/status/1646104737924939776