And Hinderaker would like us to pretend they mean… something… untoward. Or, anything… really.

They don’t.

Except that MAGA world is out of ideas — for its faux outrage machine.

It is… dying, as I type this. [Mayor Mamdani’s inaugural was local proof of it, today.]

At a rally the other night, Trump said inflation was “fake”. That prices were actually… “declining.”

No crowd applause. No shouts of agreement.

Just stony silence — from the small crowd.

An idle cough was heard — but that was it: his own idiotic base finally has had its fill of his narcissistic lies.

John reaches back to smear Jack Smith’s honorable, competent service… to blunt the Trumpian death rattles… from being heard.

But here’s what Jack Smith himself said, under oath (H/T to EmptyWheel):

…Mr. Smith: All of that is false, and I’ll say a few things.

The first is the evidence here made clear that President Trump was by a large measure the most culpable and most responsible person in this conspiracy. These crimes were committed for his benefit.

The attack that happened at the Capitol, part of this case, does not happen without him. The other co-conspirators were doing this for his benefit.

So in terms of why we would pursue a case against him, I entirely disagree with any characterization that our work was in any way meant to hamper him in the Presidential election…

Hinderaker’s high-jinks are… hilarious. But it won’t work, John.

Out.