The greatest rock song about gaslighting is "Voices Carry" by 'Till Tuesday.... (Side note: every woman who has ever wondered if she might be in a toxic relationship with a gaslighter should watch this music video. Link here to watch the video.)
The greatest gaslighter in the history of mankind is Donald Trump and he told us all to wait 'till Tuesday to watch him get indicted and brought out of his home under arrest.
Well, it is Tuesday. Crickets.
When Trump predicted this, the Grand Jury deciding if he should be indicted was still sitting and taking testimony. Grand Juries hand down indictments (or not) at the end of their service, not during the process where they are still listening to witnesses and the prosecutor's logic.
Everybody knows this about grand juries. That this particular Grand Jury was still active was public information.
So, the moment Trump said he would be arrested today, the most basic level of common sense would show that he was making shit up - no possible way. And yet, every news outlet lit up with the "breaking news" that Trump would be indicted today. MAGA nut jobs were all over the NY city streets protesting today's non-arrest.
Particularly interesting to me, the white MAGA boys serving in Congress DEMANDED that a black district attorney in New York City who is just trying to do his job under extreme stress APPEAR in front of their committee(s). That demand would be silly if Trump was not indicted and Tuesday came and went without an indictment.
Trump wanted all of this reaction. Trump knows that all of us are the easiest gaslighting victims ever imaginable.
Trump just saying this made up bullshit gets him nothing. The nation's reaction gets him fund raising and publicity that is fantastic for his election campaign. Get it?
Some people struggle to understand why a woman who is being victimized by a gaslighter struggles to leave her lover. I have enough empathy to think this through better than that.
But, damn it, I have no patience for the media pundits, the politicians and Trump's supporters who embrace victimization by a gaslighter over and over again.
Trump was not arrested today and we are all questioning our own sanity as a result.
We are the victims. He is the gaslighter. But, how can you blame an asshole for being a gaslighter when he keeps getting the results he wants?
Why are you so upset that Trump's prediction that Tuesday would be the big day wasn't true? Who cares which day it happens as long as it happens?