'It is his aphrodisiac': Ex-RNC chair explains how gag order 'stimulates' Trump and his base

31 October 2023

As President Donald Trump faces gag orders in two separate cases — one from Judge Arthur Engoron presiding over his New York civil fraud trial, and the other from Judge Tanya Chutkan, who will preside of his Washington, DC January 6 trial in March — some experts expect him to violate the orders soon.

With a history of threatening and verbally attacking others, MSNBC's Deadline: White House host Nicolle Wallace on Tuesday pointed to the fact the ex-president's rhetoric influenced January 6 rioters who chanted, "Hang Mike Pence!"

Noting Trump "gets deeply stimulated and excited by the violence," Wallace asked analyst and ex-Republican National Committee Chair Michael Steele what he thinks the MAGA hopeful's "calculation is on whether violating these gag orders lands him in jail is a good thing or bad thing for him."

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Steele replied, "You put your finger on two very important words there that describe everything about Trump — stimulated and excited. It is a stimulant, it's a narcotic for him, that people show him fealty — undying, unfettered, totally locked in fealty. It is his aphrodisiac. It is better than any relationship he can have because he controls it. And notice his reaction when someone doesn't give him that what is his reaction? It's personal. He takes it personally and he leans into it. You saw it in his going after [ex-U.S. Attorney General] Bill Barr and [ex-Trump lawyer Michael] Cohen and others who decided that, 'You know, protecting me is better for me than protecting you.' So that's what he got all the lead up to January 6. It is what he continues to get as he's looking at polling showing that his numbers don't shrink on each indictment, it increases. That fealty and loyalty locks in and it is the juice that propels him."

He continued, "So when you are talking about, you know, yeah, we saw the scenes of him sitting in the courtroom last week, you know, angered, and he storms out. Well, part of that is, yeah, he's pissed off because he can't control it, but the other side of his brain kicks in and goes, 'Good reality TV, baby.' They're going to see me come out and I'm still going to be the strong angry former president. I'm the guy that they're coming after and I'm showing that I'm determined to fight this. And that further stimulates that base, it further engenders their loyalty and fealty to him. He does not give a damn about you. You're being punked. You're being used every day for his particular pleasure, to save his behind. Your butt's going to jail, right? Now, he's using you to avoid that, to drag the system out, to push back on the work that [attorney] Timothy [Heaphy] and the January 6th committee had done — to go after the colleagues of [ex-FBI agent] Frank Figliuzzi who are still in law enforcement trying to serve justice."

Steele concluded, "So he's using all of those instruments to promote himself and push no matter how bad it seems to the rest of us who normally would just collapse under the weight of 91 indictments. Donald Trump gets a you-know-what from it. He's charged from it. The thing that probably bothers him more than all these other cases, Nicolle, is the money deal, right? Where they could come in and take $250 million plus from him. But even there, there's the fealty that's going to come from that, when that moment comes — that verdict comes down, and he's handed a judgment, his numbers won't go down, they'll just get stronger."

Watch the video below or at this link.

'His aphrodisiac': Analyst explains how Trump's legal troubles get him 'excited and stimulated'youtu.be

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