Mod: These days everyone is getting all in on the act.Matt Drudge Puts Trump in an Orange Jumpsuit as Site Monitors His Potential Indictment (MediaITElink): As speculation mounts that the Department of Justice will indict former President Donald for taking home classified materials he was by law supposed to hand over to the national archives, the right-leaning Drudge Report went all in on a “Trump Indictment Watch” headline.
The website, run by the reclusive
Matt Drudge, posted a link to a
Daily Beast op-ed from
Bradley P. Moss with the headline, “
It’s Over: Trump Will Be Indicted.” The link, carried at the top-left of the website came complete with a photoshopped photo of
Trump in an orange jumpsuit.
Moss, a top national security lawyer, has been a go-to voice in the media recently on the implications of
Trump taking home top-secret materials and even had an op-ed published on
FoxNews.com defending the
FBI’s raid of
Mar-a-Lago.
While the highly trafficked, conservative news aggregator played a crucial role in boosting
Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, the site has had more mixed coverage of
Trump in recent years, which at times led to attacks from
Trump.
In September 2020 Trump tweeted, “Our people have all left Drudge. He is a confused MESS, has no clue what happened. Down 51%. @DRUDGE They like REVOLVER and others!”
Two months later in December of 2020,
Drudge also ran the same image of
Trump in a jumpsuit over the headline, “
Hannity: Trump Needs to Pardon Whole Family AND Himself Before Leaving…”
So, while Drudge’s message regarding Trump’s potential, if not likely, pending criminal prosecution, isn’t a new sentiment from the media influencer, it does come at a very notable moment.
Last Friday, the
New York Times ran an editorial demanding
Attorney General Merrick Garland seek criminal prosecution of
Trump and argued that the risk of civil unrest from the
MAGA base is outweighed by the dangerous precedent not indicting
Trump would set for future presidents.
A similar message made its way onto
Fox News’s prime time line-up on Friday as
Alan Dershowitz declared the government has enough evidence to indict
Trump– although he argued the
DOJ would decline to do so.
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