The indictments pile up
The fact that Trump had received yet another target letter from Jack Smith was a relatively close hold in his world. He went public after a media inquiry asking if he had received one, according to a person briefed on the matter.
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We don’t know what charges Smith is considering bringing against Trump, but commentary from many lawyers — ranging from the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 riot to outsiders writing “model prosecution memos” — have focused in particular on the possibility of the attempted corrupt obstruction of an official proceeding, under Section 1512(c) of Title 18, and conspiracy to defraud the government under Section 371 of Title 18.
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There have been at least two grand juries investigating Trump’s efforts to remain in power after he lost the 2020 election. One is related to Trump’s fundraising off his false claims of widespread fraud and his claim he needed money to fight it. The other relates to the so-called “fake” electors that his allies sought to have votes tallied for Trump in the electoral college count.
You know – little stuff. Details.
To state the obvious plainly, Trump is facing significant jail time. He has already been indicted twice and is now facing two more, one federal and one in Georgia, also in relation to his efforts to remain in power. When he was indicted in the documents investigation, his advisers were blunt that in their view, he needs to win the election as a defense against possible jail time. That only increases with an indictment related to Jan. 6 at the federal level.
That’s frankly horrifying. Winning an election should not be a fucking get out of jail free card! Quite the reverse. His rampant prolific criminality should disqualify him from so much as running.
The hearing today in Florida could help flesh out more details about when Mr. Trump’s trial on charges of violating the Espionage Act will take place. The government has requested a date in December. Mr. Trump’s lawyers have asked for an indefinite postponement.
This is all so shaming.
He has so many beautiful indictments. Some people are saying they’re the best indictments ever. Experienced veteran lawyers — big, tough, macho litigators — come up to him with tears in their eyes and say “sir, I’ve just never seen indictments so beautiful and impressive.”
Trump is like Oscar Wilde: he can resist anything except temptation.
If he wins and is made POTUS: constitutional crisis. If he loses, he and his party supporters will have deferred that crisis for one term. But it is not likely that he will be able to resist temptation, and will likely do something as POTUS again to make his overall situation worse.
Time will tell.
In other “fuck around and find out” news, Michigan has indicted each of the 16 fake Trump presidential electors on eight felony counts each.
Now that’s just low energy. You’re supposed to double down and say you’re super proud of what you did, it was a perfect slate of electors, this indictment is the greatest witch hunt ever, blah blah blah Hunter Biden blah blah blah threats to the prosecutor etc etc. Has this woman learned nothing from her Dear Leader?
Well, yeah, I’m sure that every defendant would like an indefinite postponement of their trial. (Provided they are out on bail…)
Someone who’s a party official signs something she didn’t read and then claims she doesn’t know what an elector is.
Probably won’t hold up in court.