![]() ![]() The Trump lines practically write themselves: “I guess I’m the one guy Alvin Bragg wants to send to prison! I dunno! I dunno!” By putting these two on a collision course, the show has given Trump his greatest foil since the stern, phlegmatic, Boston-accented John Kelly in season three. Bragg grew up in Harlem while Trump went into his father’s business of real estate Bragg is obsessed with letting criminals off easy while Trump stands for law and order full stop. Think of it: Bragg, like Trump, is a born-and-bred New Yorker and an ambitious man, but the similarities end there. The choice of the all-but-forgotten Alvin Bragg to bring the charges against Trump was nothing less than a stroke of creative genius. And with this latest twist, the writers have set up a showdown that may prove among their most compelling yet. What matters for good wannabe-prestige TV is not the letter of the law it’s the characters. But then The Donald Trump Show has always fallen somewhere between My Cousin Vinny and the courtroom scenes in The Exorcism of Emily Rose on the legal rigor spectrum. The Stormy imbroglio has been investigated by multiple agencies and prosecutors, including the Justice Department, all of whom have walked away empty-handed. It’s worth pointing out that, at least by the show’s own lore, the charges seem specious. Well! That all changed in a hurry when a teaser last weekend revealed that Trump might be arrested in the next episode over his supposed hush money payment to Stormy Daniels - and in a devilish twist, it was Trump himself who made the reveal! After years of will-they-won’t-they legal drama that’s culminated only in a montage of a forlorn Rachel Maddow searching for Trump’s tax returns in the rain after Robert Mueller declined to indict, the writers now seem prepared to take Trump where they’ve never taken him before. The once-bingeable drama seemed listless and adrift more than one critic called for it to be canceled. Instead, the show ’s latest season chose to focus on a less-than-compelling rivalry with Ron DeSantis and a third presidential run that even the actor playing Trump can’t muster any enthusiasm for. ![]() So it was that as soon as she became a headline character, Hutchinson all but vanished, fading into the background like so many other interchangeable public servants who tried to take on Trump. Here was everything that had made The Donald Trump Show so great in the first place: the over-the-top drama, the scandal, the unpredictability of its main character.Īlas, one of the gripes that critics have most often leveled at the show is that it introduces new plotlines and then doesn’t do anything with them. A new character had been introduced, Cassidy Hutchinson, a Trump aide who told the January 6 committee that the former president had lashed out violently, including allegedly trying to commandeer the presidential SUV. ![]() When last we checked in on The Donald Trump Show, the absurdist political thriller that’s been airing nonstop on CNN for the past seven years, the program seemed to have gotten its groove back. ![]()
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