Trump's motive in posting the video, as with all of his violent rhetoric, stems from that single motive. He knows he's going to lose the election to President Biden if it's a normal, non-violent election.
Juliette Kayyem
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All Trump has left as a strategy is violence.
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Trump Posts Image of Joe Biden Kidnapped And Bound With Rope
Trump signals approval of violent imagery targeting his political opponents
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He has always encouraged violence as part of his strategy. He hopes at least to intimidate his opponent(s) and their supporters.
If bare intimidation doesn't work (and it never has) he has no qualms about making good on his threatening words (Jan. 6). That has not succeeded either.
What if Biden was kidnapped and hog-tied in the back of a pickup truck and assassinated? Since before the 2020 election, Trump identified Biden as the one candidate who could beat him. If Biden were assassinated, who would be his successor as Democratic nominee? For Trump, Anybody But Biden would be better. Trump wouldn't assassinate Biden personally, his low lifes would do it for him, so Trump would not be charged in the assassination.
He has practically dared judges to make good their gag orders and bail conditions of release. It fires up the low lifes, and if a judge or a prosecutor, or cop (Jan. 6), or innocent people, like Paul Pelosi, or supporters (Jan. 6) get hurt, it's all the same to him, collateral damage for a good cause. He'll pardon the perps if he becomes president again, and himself too.
So, Trump looks at all of this in the last year and he sees a miracle: every arrest, every indictment, every civil law suit, and his support hardens and even increases at the margins. Mugshots R Us, he revels in them, his low-life supporters festoon their pickup trucks, front lawns and den walls with them.
Trump sees all of that and posts that video. He doesn't want to go to jail, he really, most sincerely does not want to spend time in the slammer. And seeing the reaction immediately after posting, after hearing from his lawyers, he realizes that this might have been a bridge too far. Pause: I'm telling you ladies and gentlemen, low lifes and high lifes, if Jack Smith (in two courts) or Fani Willis or Alvin Bragg, moves on this basis to revoke his bond, legally, it is entirely in the judge's discretion, but if this was the run of the mill criminal, say in a domestic violence case, the defendant would go straight to jail. Unpause. So Trump thinks about that, it's a worrying thought, but what can he do, he posted it. ...And he decides to leave the video up. And he did. He has not taken it down. Because the thought that Trump had after hearing from his lawyers and seeing the reaction was, "I could win the election this way! What's done is done. I don't want to go to jail but jail has its advantages. I can still campaign; I will be a political prisoner; all eyes will be on me for the duration of the campaign, whether I'm released eventually or not," and I may win the election by this means! HAHAHA!"
