VERY good point. Forgot he had also been convicted on state charges. And since he is serving them concurrently you are correct he's better off in a federal prison.

Trump is getting it ready so that when Derek Chauvin is pardoned everyone will shrug. Or the country will explode and he'll get to declare martial law. And democracy dies.

The MAGA movement just basically redubs all Trump appearances so that they don't hear the craziness. It's the way they deal with cognitive dissonance, and that won't change.
But then the New York Times helps out with headlines written as if nothing crazy at all happened:
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That's the climax of the hearing, so I'll stop there. But I want to reiterate what Judge Brinkema showed about ICE's gang allegations — because it explains so much about the renditions to El Salvador

- "Terrible affidavit"
- "Very shoddy work"
- "Editorializing"
- Putting words in people's mouths."

What is particularly delicious is that #EliseStefanik moved out of her townhouse on Capitol Hill, probably signed a lease in New York City and she lost her congressional committee assignments. All for nothing. Ha ha ha ha