Oh for sure. He’s been soft-pedaling his right-wing transformation ever since the initial allegations went public years ago. The hard turn recently is probably exactly as you say, he knew charges were coming.
It doesn’t take much calculating at all. It’s just easy to convince right-wing audiences that sexual misconduct allegations are all a conspiracy by the Deep StateTM to silence them. It’s a pretty basic grift.
I’m not entirely sure it wasn’t the other way around.
He probably knew some charges were coming years ago, and started adapting his output accordingly.
Oh for sure. He’s been soft-pedaling his right-wing transformation ever since the initial allegations went public years ago. The hard turn recently is probably exactly as you say, he knew charges were coming.
the suddenly “baptism” was obvious, because he mustve knew charges were going to be brought against him eventually
I don’t think he thinks the way you and I do. I don’t think it was that calculated.
Well he also has people like managers, publicists and agents who will think this way.
It doesn’t take much calculating at all. It’s just easy to convince right-wing audiences that sexual misconduct allegations are all a conspiracy by the Deep StateTM to silence them. It’s a pretty basic grift.