This isn't really news though, no? His ties with the church have been known and publicized since Abe died, not to mention no one in the U.S. cares about the Moonies.
This just seems like an all around terrible idea. No better way to convince his followers that the system is actively rigged against him and that the people in power want him to lose, regardless of whether he's actually guilty or not.
Honestly, I'm just fine with all of his remaining followers getting sore, taking their ball and just staying home on election day. With all of those Jan 6th idiots now getting serious prison terms I'm going to assume what's left of the MAGA resistance will be far too chickenshit to go grab a red banner and break stuff. Sure, they'll howl on social media and call for a revolution but at the end of the day, if it comes down to going out and spray-painting a government building and then doing five years in federal lockup, or just staying home, drinking Pabst and watching the Alex Jones podcast, those assholes will pussy out and stay home.
I also think that if Joe Biden ends up being the Dem nominee, and chances are he will be (if he's still able to walk and talk, and then maybe even if he's not) and if the GOP can formally remove Trump from the electoral process, AND THEN if Nikki Haley can clinch the GOP nomination and picks someone like, say, Tim Scott, to be her running mate, dare I say quite a number of independents and even Democrats may switch sides and vote Republican in the Aug primary. For a whole lot, the prospect of finally electing the first female POTUS will be too much to pass up on, regardless of party. And an all minority ticket?? The left will be losing its shit. And then anyone with common sense understands that it's fundamentally dangerous to have a "president" who could drop dead at any second and, while still here with us, doesn't even know where he is or what he's doing for most of the day and needs Secret Service acting as his nursemaids.
But again, it goes against my self-interest to elect any leader or any party that values fiscal responsibility and lower government spending. No no, I say, spend away! Appropriations are patriotic, the bigger the more patriotic!! Let's raise taxes on those greedy corporations to fund human interest projects, tax tax tax!! Inflation? What's inflation? FOUR MORE YEARS!!
