On Thursday, New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, a Trump favorite, told CNN that for forty years Trump has been trying not to get arrested so this indictment has really shaken him up despite what he says.
"This is somebody who has spent more than four decades trying to avoid being arrested or being indicted," Haberman said. "And so this is a really scary moment for him despite whatever he says."
"Now, you talk to different people tonight, you hear he's fine, you talk to others who say that he's very angry," Trump Whisperer Maggie said.
"And I think this is the first time that I can think of where he can't control this," she observed. "He was able to control impeachment in some way because Mitch McConnell was on his side in the Senate trial and because House Republicans were on his side. He was even able to control the second impeachment to some extent."
"And I think that he has an overconfidence in his ability to impact events by intimidation tactics, by pushing out headlines," she said "This is now in the hands of the whatever judge he draws and what the voters think."
I predict the judge will eventually tell Trump to stop sending out vitriolic messages on his social media platform.
This morning Haberman told CNN that former Trump employees are ecstatic about his indictment
"They were texting me, and there is a long trail of people who feel burned, in one way or another, by Donald Trump," she said. "We certainly saw that in the White House. This was a pattern that existed for decades in the Trump Organization. And the number of people I heard from yesterday who worked for his company who were really happy, one person texted with the words, 'Wonderful news.'"
