Trump busted over 'panic move' frenzy: A pattern 'too obvious to ignore'

Dogged by collapsing polling numbers, a split with his supporters on the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files against his wishes and Republican lawmakers ignoring his demands, Donald Trump went on a frenzied attack aimed at Democratic lawmakers for “seditious behavior” on Thursday.

According to Mediaite Founding Editor Colby Hall, the president’s outburst urging punishment by death for critics of his use of the military is an all too typical response from Trump when he senses he is in trouble.

In an opinion piece for Mediaite, Hall honed in onTrump Truth Social posts that claim, “It’s called SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL. Each one of these traitors to our Country should be ARRESTED AND PUT ON TRIAL. Their words cannot be allowed to stand - We won’t have a Country anymore!!! An example MUST BE SET."

It's an “irresponsible panic move," Hall wrote.

As such, he suggested that the press should make clear that the president is once again faking outrage to change the narrative and stem the bleeding of his support as his problems worsen.

According to Hall, Trump's lashing out at Democrats who served in the military who are advising members of the armed services to ignore the president’s entreaties to break the law is “because he needs something — anything — to drown out the storylines he could not control. And there are PLENTY to smother.”

“Each blast was its own small circus tent, pitched to redirect attention from the facts at hand. None of it had to be credible. It just had to be loud,” he wrote before adding, “This isn’t extraordinary anymore, which is precisely the problem.”

“What began as temperament has hardened into tactic. Trump’s eruptions are no longer expressions of rage; they are instruments he deploys with brutal consistency. He cannot fix the facts that imperil him, so he forces the press to rearrange the frame. And the press, conditioned by years of this choreography, still lunges toward the spectacle,” he wrote.

“The real point is the pivot," he added, arguing that Trump falls back on the strategy for the simple reason that it works — and reporters should not bite but should look for the underlying reasons for the outburst.

“For as long as he has dominated American politics, he has relied on the same trick: turn every vulnerability into a brawl so noisy that the vulnerability dissolves,” Hall accused and then added, “the next time Donald Trump fires off a blast like the one on November 20—and there will be a next time—the important question won’t be what he said or who he said it about. It will be what happened 24 to 48 hours earlier.”

“That’s the real headline,” he pointed out.