Across MAGAland, there is a new villain threatening Donald Trump, and there’s no rule that says the things they’re accusing him of have to be real.
Jack Posobiec, self-appointed internet provocateur and Trump fan, headed to Twitter on Monday to complain, declaring that Judge Juan Merchan was threatening to arrest Trump for missing a day of court to attend his son Barron Trump’s graduation.
Now, others are chiming in, calling Merchan “evil” and “disgusting” for not allowing a man to see his youngest child graduate.
The only problem is that Judge Merchan has issued no such order.
In fact, Merchan is giving a lot of leeway in scheduling, skipping days for Passover, asking jurors for days that they need to be away for religious holidays, and skipping Wednesdays altogether. As for May 17, when Trump says he needs the day off to attend a graduation, he said he won’t rule yet, but will wait to see if the proceedings are on schedule, according to Inner City Press.
That means that the defense could help accommodate the requested absence by simply not drawing things out as long as possible, but delay is a standard tactic in the Trump bag of tricks.
Trump’s fans are irate, however, over the order that they mistakenly think was handed down, though. Jason Miller, a senior advisor to Trump, turned to social media to moan, too. He tweeted, spreading the misleading propaganda:
“This is how disgusting the Biden Trial has become. Not even letting the President attend his son’s high school graduation. Nothing but a political attack.”
His post clearly reached a lot of angry fans, because he received a lot of responses musing about the optics of Trump being arrested at his son’s graduation, or about Trump skipping court and daring the judge to order his arrest.
While it is true that Trump was warned that his absence could lead to a warrant being issued, that caveat was part of the standard warnings that criminal defendants are given, and was not in direct connection to the graduation request.
Other Trump fans tweeted further musings, such as whether Florida Governor Ron DeSantis would protect his former presidential rival by preventing his arrest.
Another claimed that Trump had already been forced to miss being by Melania Trump’s side when her mother died, and that having to miss Barron’s graduation as well is just more evidence that accused felon is being prosecuted by “evil.”
(Trump elected to be in court after his mother-in-law died, and traveled to rallies both before and after his appearance; he was not even required to be present in that case. This time, it’s a criminal charge rather than civil proceedings, and criminal defendants are typically expected to show up.)
Trump himself has not made any direct response to the lack of ruling yet, nor to the false claims that a ruling was issued. Let’s see what he posts on TruthSocial tonight, however.
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