A role to play
Trump is trying to use Republicans in Congress to get rid of his guilty verdicts. The act of a dictator determined to destroy the institutions that get in the way of his peremptory commands.
It’s a campaign he orchestrated in the days after his May 31 conviction on 34 felony counts in New York, starting with a phone call to the man he wanted to lead it: Speaker Mike Johnson.
Trump was still angry when he made the call, according to those who have heard accounts of it from Johnson, dropping frequent F-bombs as he spoke with the soft-spoken and pious GOP leader.
“We have to overturn this,” Trump insisted.
Who’s “we” Kemosabe?
The speaker didn’t really need to be convinced, one person familiar with the conversation said: Johnson, a former attorney himself, already believed the House had a role to play in addressing Trump’s predicament. The two have since spoken on the subject multiple times.
Sure, because it’s completely normal for Congress to interfere with the outcomes of trials.
State level trials at that. Note how States rights evaporate when it suits the GOP
Americans have a choice here: they can have Trump, or they can have the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the rule of law. If they go for The Donald, they face the likelihood finishing up in Civil War #2, and/or a Trumpian dictatorship.
They would probably be better off voting a cranky, one-eyed alligator from the swamp nearest to Mar-a-Lago in as POTUS. Or else dump Trump into the same garbage can that once held Tricky Dick Nixon.