'Sore winner': Trump mocked for airing out 'festering grievances' despite legal victory
President-elect Donald Trump may have escaped most legal consequences in his raft of criminal cases, but he's still enraged about the release of special counsel Jack Smith's report on the plot to overturn the 2020 election — and that should tell you everything you need to know about the man, conservative analyst Bill Kristol wrote for The Bulwark on Tuesday.
The incoming president spent much of the morning raging about how unfair everyone was being to him, noted Kristol, including posts to Truth Social in which he said that "Deranged Jack Smith was unable to successfully prosecute the Political Opponent of his 'boss,' Crooked Joe Biden, so he ends up writing yet another 'Report' based on information that the Unselect Committee of Political Hacks and Thugs ILLEGALLY DESTROYED AND DELETED, because it showed how totally innocent I was, and how completely guilty Nancy Pelosi, and others, were."
Trump then went on in a separate post to rant, "To show you how desperate Deranged Jack Smith is, he released his Fake findings at 1:00 A.M. in the morning. Did he say that the Unselect Committee illegally destroyed and deleted all of the evidence." And for good measure, he called comedian Seth Meyers a "moron" for mocking the infighting in his political circle.
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"Trump, like all insecure bullies, is a sore winner," wrote Kristol. "One can’t help but take some comfort from the image of him tossing and turning, chafing under the weight of his festering grievances, feeling a need to lash out and lie the week before his return to the White House." But in the midst of all that, he added, "Trump challenges none of the actual findings in Smith’s report, which was based on interviews with more than 250 individuals, grand jury testimony from more than 55 witnesses, and evidence from searches of numerous electronic devices."
Ultimately, said Kristol, "There’s no reason not to believe Smith’s claim that, if the case had gone to trial, Trump would have been convicted on the counts with which he was charged: conspiring to deprive citizens of having their votes fairly counted and obstructing an official proceeding." It's moot because Trump can make the case go away as president, but it doesn't change the facts.
"So Trump whines in victory, and Smith leaves with dignity but in defeat," Kristol concluded.