The passion of the Trump
The problem here is pretty much the same problem that got this sociopathic criminal elected president in 2016: Nobody has ever really held him accountable for anything:
The judge in the Donald J. Trump’s criminal trial in Manhattan on Monday held the former president in contempt and fined him $1,000 for once again violating a gag order prohibiting him from attacking witnesses or jurors. The judge, Juan M. Merchan, spoke directly to Mr. Trump and warned him that the fines had not stopped him from continuing to violate the order.
“This court will have to consider a jail sanction,” Justice Merchan said. “At the end of the day, I have a job to do. Part of that job is to protect the dignity of the justice system.”
Anybody else would have been jailed long ago, but of course anybody else would have also stopped crossing the line.
Trump isn’t going to stop, either because he simply can’t, given who he is, or he wants to go to jail for a bit, to round out that part of the classic cult narrative, or some combination of those two factors.
Ultimately I don’t think Judge Merchan is going to pull the trigger, for the same reason nobody else ever has.