Said Trump pollster John McLaughlin, quoted in "How 'The Nelson Mandela of America' Is Making Bank Off of His Criminal Trial/'I’m catching up on my fucking sleep ’cause I’m bored,' Trump told one source" (The Bulwark).

Wow, that caught my eye, and not just because "I’m catching up on my fucking sleep ’cause I’m bored" is hilarious. Just this morning — and before reading that — I was saying, in conversation, that if Trump goes to jail the Trump movement will gain energy and "He'll become Nelson Mandela."

“If they lock [Trump] up for telling the truth, our fundraising will go supernova,” [an unnamed] Trump adviser told The Bulwark. “They don’t have the balls.”

Prosecutor Chris Conroy made clear to the court that he was mindful of turning Trump into a MAGA martyr. “We are not yet seeking an incarceratory penalty,” he said, adding that Trump apparently wants to go to jail: “Defendant seems to be angling for that.”

Not yet. Ha ha. I guess Trump's seeming to angle for it is playing on his antagonists' mind. If he wants it, we'd better not want it, so if later, he seems not to want it, then we will be seeking it. The use of the nonword "incarceratory" suggests that anxiety/confusion.