From the Washington Post:
The prosecution of Trump and the others in Fulton County will stand out for one distinct reason: Unlike the federal trials (unless the rules change), it should be televised.
That will seemingly bring a measure of transparency to the high-stakes proceedings and create appointment viewing — just as the House Jan. 6 committee hearings did last year but potentially with even greater numbers.
But unlike the other trials, that spectacle is less likely to play out when it matters politically. The many defendants and Trump’s already crowded legal calendar make this a strong candidate for getting delayed past the 2024 election. Willis says she will ask for a trial date within six months, but that’s ambitious.
That doesn’t mean it won’t matter politically. As noted above, the charges against Trump allies could matter when it comes to how the federal prosecution takes shape. Trump’s attacks on witnesses could create problems under Georgia’s witness intimidation laws, which allow bail only if there is “no significant risk of intimidating witnesses.”
And there remains the possibility of Trump’s winning the 2024 election and facing this trial as a sitting president.
I think it would be pretty hilariously disastrous for Republicans to be insane enough to endorse Trump as a candidate while he is in jail awaiting trial.
Surely, if he ends up in jail because he refuses to stop deriding and trying to intimidate witnesses and judges, at least some of the lickspittle politicians who have sold their souls to MAGA might have to actually say "this is painful to admit, but we need another candidate"?
Its just the coup government rigging the subsequent election. Don't get too excited about it.
ReplyDeleteif found guilty and somehow he wins the election then he could not pardon himself
ReplyDeleteSteve, I give you David Frum:
ReplyDelete“if conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism, they will abandon democracy”
Anyone or any institution that is a problem for Trump is corrupt, dishonest, fascist, add pejoratives as required to justify their worship of him. I won't even debate the issue anymore. Originally I did on that blog but nearly all of them are so entrenched in their worship no amount of discussion will change their mind. I suspect JC is more open minded about the issue and wonder if others there are not discussing it for the same reason as myself.
This is dangerous. Yesterday I watched a snippet of J. Haidt during which he argued that what is now happening in the USA has trends similiar to what happened before the Civil War broke out.
David Frum is a Jew
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