Indictments posit a 'real' Donald Trump behind the facade, who believed he lost the 2020 election. But what if there is no such Trump?
The latest, an indictment handed down by Georgia's Fulton County, charges the former president with orchestrating a"criminal organization" to spread falsehoods about the 2020 election. It's likely to meet the same mixture of responses that every other Trump legal drama has: unalloyed glee from liberal commentators who seem convinced that Trump is toast, accusations of biased prosecution from scattered conservative voices, and silence from the general public.
With news of the latest indictment, as with all the other Trump legal dramas, there are two distinct things people could react to: the real event and the media event; the thing itself and the image. With an indictment and arraignment, real papers are filed in real courts. They contain claims about what did or did not happen. There is, somewhere in all this, the objective truth about events, decisions, and consequences.
So when someone says"the indictment," they could be talking about the actual legal event, or about the discourse surrounding it—the intense media coverage and its symbolic resonance. The force of the latter drives, for instance, the well-rehearsed argument that every new legal drama"only helps Trump." The argument is that all press is good press for the Trump campaign, and that keeping him in the news only enhances his symbolic resonance for supporters.
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