A remarkable moment on ABC This Week ahead of January 6th as the “Powerhouse Roundtable” mourns the ineffectiveness of the weaponized prosecutions of then-Former President Donald Trump, and their net effect of propelling him back to The White House.
Watch as the panel commiserates over the collective prosecutorial failure to Get Trump:
WATCH: @ThisWeekABC panel mourns the inefficacy of the Trump prosecutions. Notable exception: @reihan, who points out the misplaced priorities of DA Alvin Bragg's office as crime spirals out of control. pic.twitter.com/JnPTy4LtKM
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ABC THIS WEEK WITH GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS
1/5/25
9:46 AM
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: We're also going to see, Julie Pace, at the end of this week a remarkable moment, the sentencing of a former president for a felony.
JULIE PACE: It is incredible to think about, you know, where we were a year- 18 months ago in terms of the legal threats against President Trump. We will see a final sort of piece of that this week with the sentencing, almost certainly. The judge has already signaled this, no jail time given that he's about to serve as President of the United States, but those legal threats against him actually ended up being a political force for good for his -- for his prospects. He really was able to use the prosecutions to argue that he was being targeted, that these were politically motivated and we saw that a large portion of the American public believes that. He goes into office now really being able to, I think, put that part of his life behind him.
REIHAN SALAM: And Julie, just to build on that, you know, you have a New York City right now where there are being- people who are being set on fire in the subway system. There's a real sense the city is going out of control, and that local prosecutors haven't done their part on that front, but that many of them sought what many Americans see as political vendettas. That's something that has been enervating and demotivating and demoralizing for a lot of Democrats right now, and we'll see where it goes from here.
ASTEAD HERNDON: There are so many ifs, right? What if it was the January 6th case that went first? Would those legal problems have had a bigger type of political effect? But when we think of back to early 2023, the reason Democrats thought President Biden was okay, right? The reason -- the get out of jail free card they had for themselves was they thought that Trump’s legal problems were going to mean he was inherently invalid as a presidential candidate. That closes- this week closes the chapter on that book. Not only was that not true, it actually propelled him back to The White House.
STEPHANOPOULOS: That's all the time we have for today. Thank you very much. We’ll be right back.
Other than Reihan Salam, who rightly points out the misplaced priorities of the New York County District Attorney, which have had a catastrophic impact on public safety, the panel is mournful. More to the point: the members of the Regime Media on the panel are mournful.
There is no self-examination, no consideration of the role of the media in shoving these prosecutions in the faces of the American people at the expense of other, more relevant news. There is no introspection or reflection over the public’s loss of confidence in the media, due in large part to their cheerleading of weaponized government. There is only lamentation at a strategy gone bad (with the exception of Salam), without consideration of WHY it went bad and failed to yield the expected political result.
Exit question: if THIS is how they cover the Trump sentencing, how bad will they freak out over the Trump J6 commutations?