Weekend Report: What's going on?

GOP explodes with rage and threats over Trump conviction. A tired Trump vows to appeal, but experts say he's unlikely to overturn. MAGA believes this will help Trump, but is that true?

The GOP and MAGA media have exploded with fury, vowing revenge against Democrats after the historic verdict in Trump’s New York criminal trial, in which he was convicted on all 34 counts. Some GOP politicians have promised to press for investigations of Democrats as revenge, while House Speaker Mike Johnson has pushed for the Supreme Court to intervene—an unlikely scenario. Underneath, the response seems to be about complete shock and morbid fear...

Donald Trump gave a rambling and incoherent speech at Trump Tower on Friday, which his campaign had scheduled Thursday night, alerting the world of his response to the verdict. It was an opportunity to present himself to voters who’d not seen his rallies or much else of him for a while, carried in the daytime on cable networks. And it was a disaster. Tired and incoherent, he went off on tangents, including attacking immigrants, and vowed he would overturn the felony conviction. But how likely is that, and how long would it take?…

Trump’s campaign and his GOP allies are claiming that the conviction is going to help Trump surge in the polls and win the presidential race—spinning that claim to a compliant media—and that Democrats will come to rue the prosecutions. The Trump campaign claimed the news brought in huge amounts of cash donations, which wouldn’t be surprising. But for a candidate who now desperately needs to expand his base, is being a convicted felon really going to help?…