Trump’s Indictment Took the Nashville Murders Off the Front Page

Former President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before his speech at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland, on March 4, 2023. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

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NASHVILLE, Tenn.—Not much more than 48 hours before the news of the indictment of former President Donald Trump dropped, Politico—a media outlet that makes its reputation by having the “inside dope”—was telling us that a grand jury indictment had been pushed off for a month at least.

Politico’s Erica Orden wrote on March 27:

“The Manhattan grand jury examining Donald Trump’s alleged role in a hush money payment to a porn star isn’t expected to hear evidence in the case for the next month largely due to a previously scheduled hiatus, according to a person familiar with the proceedings.

“The break would push any indictment of the former president to late April at the earliest, although it is possible that the grand jury’s schedule could change.”

Possible it could change? No doubt Orden is sighing in relief from having done the conventional reportorial CYA by adding that dependent clause.

Nevertheless, it’s evident that someone or some people were leaking to her information that turned out to be false.

This information quickly became accepted. It made sense. Many legal experts had been calling the indictment fraudulent. Apparently, they had been heard.

So what happened? Why the sudden change?

Trump himself was “shocked,” according to his defense attorney Joe Tacopina, who is certainly in a position to know.

Had deliberate disinformation come out of the district attorney’s office with Politico being used as the conduit, or did something happen in the interim to generate that reversal?

Could it have been caused by what has been occurring here in Nashville the past few days with several hugely dramatic events piling on top of each other?

These events were extremely damaging to the left-wing narrative and had to be taken off the national front pages and downplayed on cable news.

Most notable of all were the horrifying murders of three children and three adults at the Covenant School, which were the work of a transgender person who identified as a man and was dressed in macho terrorist garb.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and others were calling this an anti-Christian hate crime, and with authorities—now including that “dead letter office,” the FBI—refusing to reveal the contents of the shooter’s “manifesto,” they had a point.

The subject is so electric to corporate media that CBS, in an action reminiscent of Pravda, banned its staff from even using the word “transgender” in reporting on what transpired. Axios Nashville also omits mention in its reporting.

Meanwhile, the backlash was almost immediate, with local citizens’ assembling in neighboring Franklin to oppose, for the first time, ratifying the permit for a Pride event in that city that had, in the past, exposed children to flagrant nudity and hyper-sexuality.

Yet more dangerous to the left was the virtual riot the next day at the Tennessee Capitol, an event that almost seemed like a left-wing version of Jan. 6, 2021, but with far less justification.

The extremely youthful rioters—a majority high school age, some trans, egged on by a trio of particularly rabid progressive state legislators, one of whom had been previously arrested for disrupting a 2018 Sen. Marsha Blackburn event—broke into the building, putting the lives of other legislators in danger.

Despite the demonstrators’ claims that they were there to lobby for gun control, this movement already was metastasizing in the opposite direction. From the Tennessee Star:

“The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) Thursday confirmed to The Tennessee Star that it is aware of a viral video circulating the web in which a transgender activist encourages transgender people in Tennessee to commit acts of violence.”

This video, initially posted on TikTok, was amplified by the popular Twitter account LibsOfTikTok. It featured the creator of the video spouting the following:

“Trans people in Tennessee, it’s time to [expletive] fight. Trans allies in Tennessee, it’s time to [expletive] fight. Trans women, if they lock you up for identifying as a woman, fight. Resist. You’re gonna die anyways. We’re gonna die anyways. It’s time to [expletive] resist.”

This is obviously something no political party would wish to be associated with, particularly since there is no law against transgenderism in Tennessee and no one was bothering transgender people in the first place.

It’s simply a manifestation of insanity. No one wanted to harm transgenders until one of them shot three 9-year-olds and their mentors and was herself shot dead to prevent further carnage.

But the Democrats, locked into identity politics as they are, can’t allow the public to see this, particularly that small part of the public that actually determines elections and might think for themselves.

At the same time, of course, they can’t be seen by their base to be squelching errant transgenders, hence the omertà from CBS.

But did all this account for the sudden change in the status of the Trump indictment?

It’s hard to say, and even harder to prove, but it certainly could have played a part.

In fact, it’s equally hard to see that it didn’t. The country was growing ever nearer to exploding. It wasn’t looking good for the Democrats and their friends—polls were showing it—and the people had to be distracted, even if it risked making a martyr of Trump.

Don’t believe me? Ask George Soros. He follows these things closely.

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