Trump’s Right-Wing Allies Predictably Lose Their S–t Over Guilty Verdict, Vow to Get Revenge

As you’ve no doubt heard by now, on Thursday, a jury in Lower Manhattan found Donald Trump guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records, making him the first former president in US history to have the words convicted felon attached to his name. For his part, Trump has taken the news exactly as one would expect, claiming the trial was “RIGGED,” that he “DID NOTHING WRONG,” and that he’s a “political prisoner.” But what about his allies on the right? Are they urging caution at this time? Telling people that if they are all about “law and order,” then they should respect the verdict rendered by the legal system? Explaining that no one actually has to be worried about this happening to them unless they decide to commit a bunch of crimes? Not exactly!

Instead, they are completely losing their minds, vowing revenge, and—in the case of the ex-president’s eldest son—calling the US a “craphole.”

On Fox News, Jeanine Pirro told viewers, “We have seen the criminal justice weaponized to bring down a candidate for president and a former president.” Laura Ingraham claimed it was a day “that America may never recover from.” Sean Hannity dubbed the verdict a “conviction without a crime,” which, of course, is just objectively false. Jesse Watters declared that all of this goes back to the 2016 election and that he and his colleagues (at Fox? His MAGA army?) are “gonna get back up,” “regain our strength,” and “vanquish the evil forces that are destroying this republic.”

Senator Marco Rubio, who is reportedly under consideration to be Trump’s running mate, told followers, “Don’t just get angry about this travesty, get even!” Senator J.D. Vance, who is also supposedly on the VP short list, declared, “This decision is a disgrace to the rule of law and our Constitution,” adding that the verdict is “election interference.” A GOP lawyer reportedly under consideration for attorney general in a second Trump administration told fellow Republicans to “f–k off” and “leave the party” if they’re not willing to retaliate.

Marjorie Taylor Greene told “John Bolton and the rest of the Deep State cabal” to “go f–k yourself.”