Posted on 03/13/2023 8:26:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Donald Trump is going to be indicted. (Pause for effect.) This is not earth-shattering news for most of us, but the mainstream media is going to portray it as a shocking development. It’s history, don’t you know? But no matter how Trump’s legal troubles are characterized in the hysterically rabid anti-Trump press, the country will divide, as usual, between those who hate Trump and those who love him. That won’t change.
And since almost everyone has already made up their mind about Trump, it’s not likely that large numbers of voters will be swayed one way or another after this first indictment is announced.
Yes — the first. There are four criminal inquiries into Trump’s businesses, his personal life, and the 2020 campaign. And each and every investigation will almost certainly charge Trump with something. After all, if a prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich, charging Trump shouldn’t be a problem.
Trump’s current legal problem resides in the Manhattan district court where a grand jury is getting ready to charge him with crimes related to the $160,000 in hush money he allegedly had paid to porn actress Stormy Daniels in 2016 to cover up his affair. An eight-year-old case that everyone knows about may not exactly be a ham sandwich, more like a can of sardines.
Can Donald Trump continue his campaign while under the cloud of criminal charges? The radical left is dying to see Trump do a perp walk into a Manhattan police station. That won’t happen so, yes, Trump will continue his presidential campaign. And he will use the indictment as a political prop to show how persecuted he is.
“Given all the unknowns right now, it’s far too early to know the political impact,” said Alex Conant, who worked on Sen. Marco Rubio’s (R-Fla.) 2016 campaign.
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But the “distraction” itself will be a plus. Trump is an expert at creating an “us vs. them” dynamic, and this appeals to many in his base who feel they’re being boned by the government, their boss, or large corporations. The appeal to his audience’s sense of victimhood by sharing his own feelings about being a victim could be a boon in some ways.
I just hope the trial is over before the election.
Yawn, any day month or year now...
An indictment may well provide cover for the GOP to keep him off primary ballots.
obviously he will lose- because they really really REALLY Got him this time fer sure! /s
“the relatively well-disciplined campaign he’s run in recent weeks”
By that I assume you mean refraining from making snarky childish remarks about other Republicans.
words words words...meaningless
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What will happen is this: state officials (in the RNC and secretaries of state offices) will use the indictment to keep Trump off the state primary ballots.
They are desperate to keep him from the nomination.
But it won’t work. Because we will all write him in.
There IS no crime, not even a misdemeanor. A wealthy businessman and entertainment figure, in the middle of a big personal project (getting elected President), gets an accusation from a gold digging whore who earlier tried to get him to further her career.
She floats that extortion accusation to his lawyer a month before the election.
He gives her 130,000 to go away with an NDA. It was his personal money, not campaign funds.
That’s like a guy making 100k a year. His daughter is getting married in an hour and he finds a drunk bum camped by the front door of the church. Bum says he will go away for the whole day for a single penny. (It’s actually far less that a penny for that example)
A personal claim settlement for no admission of guilt and an NDA is a no brainer. And without using campaign funds, it is not any kind of crime.
This is just part of the FBI/DC sedition campaign waged against him.
They are about to F around and find out.
Those walls have been closing in for six years now.
I wonder what is the statute of limitations on such a charge. Surely this happened 7+ years ago if it did.
Rick Moran refers to the affair as if it actually happened. Trump has never admitted to that. It was in his interest to pay the money to the blackmailer even if it didn’t happen because the mere accusation would have cost him votes.
Of course no crime of any kind was committed. But if SDNY and the corrupt FBI manage to try him in one of America’s communist cities like New York or DC and We need to storm the Bastille and break him out. I think they are on the verge of unleashing something dangerously unpredictable.
I hope that isn’t too stochastic.
Trump has been found GUILTY with no hope of being proven innocent since he came down the escalator.
President Ham-Sandwich.
/ignore-on
Oh noes. Another bombshell!
Unless election integrity is restored soon, any discussion of 2024 is actually a waste of time.
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