On Thursday, Trump became the first ex-president in U.S. history to be convicted of a crime. Consequently, his family members and cronies now all get to bask in their insatiable victim complex.I can’t think of any day throughout the past decade that has highlighted our great national political divide as clearly as yesterday. Thursday was simultaneously your MSNBC-addicted parents’ Super Bowl and the rapture for your MAGA, Fox News-brained uncles.
Let’s start with members of Trump’s family, namely his daughter Ivanka, whose Instagram story following the verdict made it seem like her father was diagnosed with cancer—not that his addiction to corrupt activities and cheating on his wife finally caught up with him. Ivankaan old photo of herself as a toddler sitting on her father’s lap with the caption, “I love you dad.