Mornin’ Politocadoes!
Former President Trump is scheduled to appear today for attempting to subvert American democracy and overturn the 2020 election. This will in fact mean that Trump has been impeached twice, arrested twice, and indicted three times: the aforementioned subversion of democracy, paying hush money to a porn star, and mishandling of classified documents at his club.
He has six co-conspirators, known and unknown. His former Vice President, and current rival for the Republican nomination, Mike Pence, has thrown him under the bus, by providing detailed contemporaneous notes. The Crime President stands accused of “obstructing a bedrock function of the US government – the nation’s process of collecting, counting and certifying the results of the presidential election”.
The case has been assigned to district judge Tanya Chutkan, an Obama appointee and former assistant public defender. She ruled against Trump in a separate case where he tried to block the release of documents relating to January 6th, and gave sentences to January 6 defendants harsher than what prosecutors recommended. She also dropped this line in relation to the Trump case: “Presidents are not kings, and plaintiff is not president.”
Damn. I’d be worried if I were him.
Nevertheless, Republicans stand by him. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy called it an attempt to distract from the news about Hunter Biden. Ron “mmm hungwy” DeSantis call for an end to the weaponization of the Justice Department. And it’s not particularly hard to see why, since Trump retains an iron grip on the GOP voter, remaining in a comfortable 30 point lead in the polls against other Republican contenders. He will mostly likely try to delay as much as possible until only two solutions remain: either he wins, or he goes to jail. No third choice here.
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