Transcript: Trump’s Angry New Tirade on Truth Social Signals Dark 2025
Marshall: Yeah. To be clear, a lot of people have suggested something like this. The idea is that you create some organization, probably a 501(c)(3), that can collect money, both small-donor money and big checks, and create a big pile of cash so that people who are threatened by Trump—whether it’s his private lawsuits or Kash Patel harassing people with the FBI, whichever those things are—do not have to face ruinous legal bills, let alone potentially going to prison.
A lot of people have proposed something like that, and I think it’s a great idea. I’m really hoping people who are in this line of work will come together and start doing it. You start with an idea that there is resources—legal resources, money resources—that for each person who gets targeted, this organization can swoop in and say, Hey, don’t worry about the legal bills. We got it. We’re all over this. We’ve got unlimited money. We’re going to fight this, etc. There’s a lot of people who’ve talked about that great idea. What I think I was adding that’s a little different is this needs to be a little more than a lot of money and really sharp lawyers. It needs to be something a little beyond a souped up 2025 version of a public interest law firm.
I mentioned before that Trump has this way of creating these penumbras of fear and menace and confusion around these threats and lawsuits he makes. As you said, he did actually file this lawsuit. For someone who has Trump’s resources, filing a lawsuit is the easiest thing in the world. You can file it and then un-file later, it doesn’t matter. But what this does, in addition to what lawyers Ann Selzer might have to hire, is creating this moment for people where they say, Wait a second, you can’t do that. You can’t sue a pollster. That’s crazy. And yet he is doing it. It creates this climate of confusion, of you can’t do that, but he is doing that. Do no rules apply to him? It creates, again, this climate of fear and confusion and helplessness.
