Maureen Dowd’s sister is backing Trump after verdict [Sarah Fortinsky | 06/02/24 | The Hill] ( thehill.com )

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16122170

New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd said this weekend that her sister is backing former President Trump’s reelection bid following the guilty verdict in the New York hush money criminal trial.

FuglyDuck ,
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Who?

jimmydoreisalefty OP ,
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New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd

I guess, the people that wrote the article, are trying to showcase that the verdict helped Trump instead of hurt him?

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Well fuck him and fuck them too. He needs to face consequences for his actions.

Today ,

The unknown families of barely known people are doing stupid things.

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In a column published Saturday, Dowd said after the guilty verdict, she called her brother and her sister — both of whom, she said, are Republicans who had hoped for a Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley victory — to gauge whether Trump’s conviction had been a final straw for them.

“I wasn’t going to vote for Trump,” Maureen Dowd’s sister, Peggy, told her, according to Dowd’s column. “But now I am because I thought this whole thing was a sham.”

“I couldn’t get to sleep,” Dowd recounted her sister telling her. “I was dreaming that I was in jail after a sham court trial. I was thinking that if they arrest me, I’d be out of luck. My father’s dead and two of my brothers are dead. Who else would save me?”

“They want to put him in jail three days before our convention?” Dowd’s sister asked her, according to the column. “The man is surrounded by Secret Service. What will they do? Put him in a cell with four Secret Service guys around him?”

xmunk ,

“I wasn’t going to vote for Trump,” Maureen Dowd’s sister, Peggy, told her, according to Dowd’s column. “But now I am because I thought this whole thing was a sham.”

Bull fucking shit... the whole conversation is exactly what you'll get when someone wants to do something they know is dubious. Talk to a gambling addict on their way to a casino and you'll hear echos of these sort of thin justifications.

Also, the trial wasn't orchestrated by Biden or anything... in no way does this trial make Trump a more valid candidate.

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Bull fucking shit… the whole conversation is exactly what you’ll get when someone wants to do something they know is dubious. Talk to a gambling addict on their way to a casino and you’ll hear echos of these sort of thin justifications.

Not so sure on that, from what I have seen the verdict helped even more than the initial trial news.

Did you see the funding that was possible due to the verdict?

I would be criticial of legacy media, but let me know if you find another source, other than fox news!

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-turns-conviction-cash-spotlights-record-fundraising-guilty-verdict

xmunk ,

Oh sure - my point is that this person was always going to eventually be a Trump voter this is just their excuse. In terms of fundraising I think it's extremely predictable. Their idol was being dragged through the dirt - it's the perfect time to help them overcome.

The election of Trump is basically a fucking religion at this point.

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The election of Trump is basically a fucking religion at this point.

Sadly, it seems the duopoly acts as a religion, not just Republicans or Republican-lites.

We must continue to fight the class war and not let the owner class keep dividing us!

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