Sunday, March 19, 2023

More Trial by Combat?

Donald Trump is likely going to avoid indictment in the Mar-a-Lago document case, seeing as the revelations of documents found in the homes of Joe Biden and Mike Pence have made Trump's transgressions look less serious.  The grand jury in Georgia investigating Trump's interference in that state's 2020 election promises "massive" revelations, which is likely made moot by a pending bill in the Georgia state legislature to allow the removal of black district attorneys like Fani Willis investigating white Republicans like Donald Trump (and grand jury forewoman Emily Kohrs' Valley Girl-like demeanor in TV interviews on the subject likely didn't help matters any).  With those investigations seemingly stuck in limbo, the first indictment Trump likely faces is an indictment incoling hush money given to a porn star he had a tumble in the hay with?

This case is so inconsequential, even the Justice Department wouldn't take it.  Yet Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who likely had a strong case against Trump for financial malfeasance before he decided there was no there there and dropped it (which caused several jaws to drop), is likely going ahead with an indictment that, like the twin impeachments, will inevitably lead to an acquittal.


Or maybe I'm wrong.  Why would Trump encourage his supporters to protest if he is indicted?   

And if that happens, we could get a riot that burns down Times Square.  Even though there have been riots in New York as in other cities, I can't ever recall a riot in modern times that leveled Midtown Manhattan.  Downtown Newark, yes.  Midtown Manhattan, no. 

And if that happens, the outcomes of the documents and election interference issues will be completely irrelevant, because Trump may be indicted for inciting yet another riot.   

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