Let’s be honest, if Donald Chrump is not allowed to lie, incite hatred, suspicion and actual violence against his critics, former sychophants, political and personal opponents, witnesses, judges, prosecutors, jurors and so forth, his presidential juggernaut would grind to a halt. All he has is rage, promises of retribution, fantasies of political and personal persecution, vows of terrible revenge, threats of murderous violence and millions of angry, screwed, hopeless people, some of whom will eventually arm themselves and take murderous action.

So, in a real sense, Chrump’s objection to protective orders in the two federal criminal cases against him — politically motivated, partisan, election interference intending witch hunts! — is merely self-preservation. Not only from accountability for crimes he appears very likely to have committed (his lawyers are complaining about the mountains of evidence they have to review, several YEARS’ work!) but quite possibly his freedom.

If he is not the Republican candidate in 2024, and cannot once again claim massive fraud that again deprived him of his rightful victory, he is screwed (actually, he’d be screwed if he lost again). Other Republicans will abandon him during the primaries if he somehow falls in the polls, if his 37% diehard support in the party is defeated by the other 63% of Republicans. The other candidates may even find the spine not to sign a pledge to pardon him and all of his many co-conspirators (and every convicted January 6 rioter who sings in Chrump’s rally chorus) in the event that any or all of these baseless witch hunts result in convictions. It appears likely that he will continue to be convicted of the various crimes, frauds and torts he has long been getting away with.

So you can’t really fault the Orange Turd for fighting like hell, he has to fight like hell or he’s not going to have a country any more, or even a country club. The poor fucker is fighting for all the marbles. His best hope is a wave of political assassinations by the most enraged and hopeless of his diehard followers. He’s doing his best to make it happen, hence his fight against protective orders in the federal trials he faces. How can you intimidate those evil, pedophile witnesses and jurors if you’re not even allowed to publish their names and home addresses? If the killing the insane bastard is praying for starts, heaven help us all.