As ridiculous as Trump's fundraising e-mails are, I'm not sure that reminding your supporters that you are looking at a sentence for your crimes and misdemeanours usually afforded serial killers and war criminals is that smart a move. Trump and his cohorts were widely ridiculed on social media for his stupid e-mail. Even Drudge got into the act, mocking Trump.
Source: Mediaite
It’s not out of the ordinary for a politician to try to spin negative news into a positive while fundraising off of it. But the manner in which former President Donald Trump is spinning his latest indictment for, among other things, allegedly DEFRAUDING the United States is patently absurd.
On Tuesday afternoon, Special Counsel Jack Smith filed a stunning 45-page indictment in which prosecutors laid out in astonishing detail their allegations that Trump pushed election officials to reject the results of the election in their states, while concocting a plot with several co-conspirators to fraudulently overturn the election, despite knowing their claims of election fraud were false.
On Wednesday morning, Trump thanked his loyal surrogates for defending him in what can fairly be called a manic social media post, and shortly thereafter his campaign sent out a fundraising note that was pegged to an astounding fact that he is now facing “561 YEARS in prison from the Left’s witch hunts.”
The e-mail began like this:
Patriot,
With Crooked Joe’s corrupt DOJ having unlawfully INDICTED yours truly yet again, reports indicate that I could now face a combined 561 YEARS in prison from the Left’s witch hunts.
6 LIFETIMES…
I won't bother with the entire e-mail, as it gets progressively dumber, but you can read it at the link if you so wish. As The Hill explained,
Defendants are rarely sentenced to the maximum prison term for all crimes for which they are convicted, and terms for different crimes can be served consecutively [ed: they meant concurrently], limiting the total time a defendant spends in prison.
So whatever sentence/s Trump gets if convicted will be much less jail time than that, if any. It remains to be seen if the political system in the United States has the stomach to send a former president to prison, even if convicted. That sort of puts to the test what Theodore Roosevelt said, "No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we require him to obey it."
Comedian Andy Borowitz panned it this way:
New Trump Fund-Raising E-mail Asks Supporters to Serve Prison Time for Him
“Jack So-Called Smith and the Biden Justice Department want to put Your Favorite President Behind Bars!” the appeal, which was sent to millions of Trump supporters, reads. “For a Limited Time Only, You Can Go in My Place!!!”
Given Trump's cult, they'd believe it and will be eagerly lining up to take his place.
