Time was, when you wanted to send a message to a guy, you did it bluntly: Cut off a horse's head and put it in his basement, send him a fish wrapped in a bullet-proof vest, set his business on fire, whatever. I mean the old pros had a million ways of doing it.
Now, apparently, they just...go to Subway and get a grinder? Is that it?
CNN hosts appeared fixated on Special Counsel Jack Smith exiting a local Subway shop in the wake of sending a letter telling the former President Donald Trump he is the target of a grand jury investigation.
While reporting on the news, "Inside Politics" host Dana Bash drew attention to CNN correspondent Evan Perez's "exclusive" footage of Smith exiting a Subway for lunch while refusing reporter questions. Speaking with Perez, Bash highlighted the "imagery" of the scene to contrast himself with Trump.
"What is important is the imagery here. They clearly wanted us to see him and that image to be very different from what we saw in the former president's post, which is that he's a deranged individual," Bash said.
Getting lunch at a national sub shop is somehow "imagery?" Am I reading that right?
Any word on what kind of sub he actually bought? That could make a big difference. If he got a Sweet Onion Chicken Teriyaki then this means nothing. if he got a Cold Cut Trio then I think Trump's goose is cooked.
And what about chips? Did he get Sun Chips? Those are beta-level chips. Nothing to worry about there. If he got Flamin' Hot Cheetos, though, watch out, Donald!
And did he get a soda or an iced tea? The former is what an A-game prosecutor would get. The latter is what your mom would get. Think about it.
Okay for real though, all joking aside, the level of analysis these hacks applied to Jack Smith's lunch is deranged:
"Yeah. I mean, look, you can, I can count probably five or six sandwich shops between his office and that location that he was at earlier today. He was — he stood in line like everybody else, and I couldn't tell whether it was a footlong or is it a -- or was it a six-inch sub..."
