Now, it’s true that this affair might be weaker than the cases against Trump over his insurrection attempt and theft of state secrets. But experienced prosecutors persuasively argue that it’s a straightforward case: Trump engaged in falsifying business records—with the intent to commit or conceal other election-related and tax-related crimes—which makes that falsification a felony. This is serious, likely criminal corruption that helped Trump deceive the American people and scam his way into the presidency.

Yet Trump wants his lawyer to treat the prosecution as wholly lacking in legitimacy. The *Times *reports:

He has vented to others that he does not have “a Roy Cohn,” a reference to his notoriously ruthless former lawyer. Mr. Cohn, who represented Mr. Trump in his formative business years, was repeatedly indicted and ultimately disbarred.

The problem in using fox “news” as a 180°-counterpoint to reality is that they’re so far out of bounds, it just doesn’t work. Plus, a lot of the right-wing-nutgentsia aren’t even following fox anymore anyway. It’s just lazy writing, though in 2016 it would have been pretty sharp.

TL;DR: trump is in the stage where he blames everything on people directly in front of him. As it happens, those people are his legal representation, and he’s about a month too early, so. WILL BE WILD is gonna be here soon.