The crowd at President Trump’s rally in West Virginia tonight broke into chants of “lock her up” and “drain the swamp” just hours after two of Trump’s former allies were found guilty and pleaded guilty to crimes, respectively.
That, to put it mildly, is incredibly rich with irony.
Trump brought out all his favorite oldies but goodies at the rally but remained quiet on his longtime fixer and personal lawyer Michael Cohen who plead guilty to eight felony counts, and his former campaign chair Paul Manafort who was found guilty of eight felony counts, including tax fraud, bank fraud, and hiding a foreign bank account.
Cohen and Manafort are likely soon headed to prison — in other words, they will actually be locked up. Cohen also implicated Trump in breaking campaign finance laws, saying he coordinated with Trump when he made a $130,000 hush money payment to Stormy Daniels, who had claimed she had an affair with Trump, during the 2016 presidential campaign.
Trump’s supporters still cheered him on like one of their favorite reality TV stars. His rally-goers hoping someone they don’t like goes to jail, while seemingly missing that someone they admire surrounded himself with criminals — many of whom are very swampy themselves.