Are Trump and Hillary having a "Freaky Friday" experience?
Trump accuses DeSantis of "colluding" with the Biden DOJ
Do you remember back in October 2016 when Hillary Clinton tweeted a statement from her campaign about the mysterious computer server link between the Trump Organization and Russia's Alfa Bank?
If you don't, you can always click the link and read it for yourself because despite being exposed as a load of bullshit, to this day, Hillary has not deleted that tweet.
Well, in a move that further confirms my suspicion that Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton had some kind of "Freaky Friday" experience, the Trump campaign yesterday released a statement accusing Florida Governor Ron DeSantis of "Colluding with Biden's Weaponized DOJ to Stop President Trump and the MAGA Movement."
From the way this statement is written, I'm guessing Team Trump is either employing one of the clickbaity writers from the Gateway Pundit, or they are simply emulating its muckraking, dishonest style.
Honestly, from the headline on down, the whole statement is laughably absurd.
Even Team Hillary presented more "evidence" of collusion in that Alfa bank statement than Team Trump can drum up in this daft drivel.
The only "evidence" the Trump campaign provides of this so-called collusion is a quote from a DeSantis donor suggesting that Trump's legal problems could force him to drop out of the race.
See what I mean? It's just laughable.
What a bunch of drama queens.
Does this sound like the campaign of a man who is gliding like a greased pig to the nomination?
Seriously, read the statement yourself. You can almost see the flop sweat flying as the knob-head writing it was clack-clack-clacking away at his computer keyboard.
Admittedly, not one of the clowns working for the Trump campaign believes this nonsense any more than the Hillary campaign believed the nonsense about Russia colluding with Trump.
But in both cases, the truth is irrelevant.
The Hillary campaign hoped that accusing Trump of colluding with an American adversary would turn voters against him.
Meanwhile, the Trump campaign hopes that accusing DeSantis of colluding with the Justice Department will be enough to prevent even more Trump voters from bailing on his clownish campaign.
But there's a problem with Team Trump's strategy.
The "DeSantis is Colluding with Biden's Weaponized DOJ" claim is so outlandishly foolish that only Trump's most faithful and devoted fans will fall for it.
For Republican voters who don’t read pro-Trump conspiracy blogs like the Gateway Pundit or the National Pulse, this statement reads like desperate rubbish from a flailing and panicked campaign.
And this is the fundamental flaw in Trump's 2024 strategy.
Rather than put in the effort to broaden Trump's base of support, the campaign has narrowed its messaging to the point where it only appeals to an ever-shrinking subset of Trump faithful.
Trump won in 2016 by vowing to "Make America Great Again." But in 2024, the best Trump has to offer is "Make Them Pay for What They're Doing to Me." And while the Trump faithful may embrace it with gusto, that is not the kind of messaging that will win support from the broader Republican base.
Trump seems to forget that Hillary’s conspiracies about him didn’t help her win in 2016.
And I suspect that for Republican primary voters who aren't MAGA Super Fans, Trump's conspiracies about DeSantis will be met with as much disgust as a fart in a crowded elevator.