Just look at him.
Let your eyes roll across his picture (I know it hurts, but try), and see before you the visage of a fierce predator. With bone spurs.
So Trump is telling his cult that the government wants to take away his 1st Amendment right to free speech. That the government wants to make Trump telling his cult the “real facts” about the case(s) against him, a crime — but only for poor, poor, picked-on witch-hunted Trump.
And, by golly by gee, that brave man/demi-god is going to stand up to Jack Smith and the entire Federal government and tell them hell no!! He’ll talk about his case(s) all he wants!!! Because he’s soooooooo brave and fearless and…puke…etc.
It is, in the end, simple performance art. And in this instance of myth-making, Trump is pretending his rights are being stripped and he is courageously and valiantly standing up to the “corrupt “ institutions that are attempting to steal his rights, and in doing so, he is doing so for his cult, too!
See, this is why we will likely never get through to his cult members. They are so convinced by his performance art that verifying anything as mundane as actual facts is just not worth the time and effort — plus, they’d have to change the channel, and that’s a lot of work.
Besides, with the action-adventure-political thriller Trump is performing for them in his literal one-man show, why would they want to face the real world, when they’ve got their more expensive, more relatable version covering the front rows of his rallies with angry spittle?