Posted on 07/12/2024 6:28:13 AM PDT by Libloather
It’s been a tumultuous few weeks in the legal saga around Donald Trump, and suddenly the future has come into sharper focus. After months of high-stakes uncertainty, now we know for sure that Trump will not face trial on the biggest cases against him — relating to 2020 election subversion, January 6, and classified documents at Mar-a-Lago — before the 2024 election. He might never be convicted on anything beyond the Manhattan hush-money case, and that one stands on increasingly rickety legal footing. And the chances that Trump ever winds up behind bars are vanishingly slim.
There’s no use spinning fairy tales: All four Trump cases are circling the drain. Here’s how dire it’s gotten for anti-Trump legal crusaders. They’ve gone from “Don’t worry, he’ll be tried and convicted on the big cases before the election!” to “Don’t worry, the hush-money appeal will take long enough that a reversal won’t happen until after the election!”
Before we get to the legal fallout, Trump’s chances to snuff out all four cases at once, by winning the 2024 election, have decidedly risen over the past few weeks. It’s a sad state of affairs that we accept the inevitability that, if Trump wins, all his indictments are cooked — but it’s also true. He would almost certainly have his Justice Department dismiss the two federal indictments, and the state cases would be, at best, on hold until he left office in 2029. The chances of a Trump 2024 win have long been roughly 50-50. But now, in the wake of President Joe Biden’s haggard debate performance, the polls tell us that it’s more likely than that.
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I wouldn’t mind seeing Bragg and Merchan on trial for colluding to interfere with the election.
Predictably shapeshifting narrative.
No. Not brandon, brandon’s enablers.
Brandon, himself, should spendd the rest of his life eating (and making) pudding in an old folks home.
BTTT
There must be legal consequences for election interference for those engaging in lawfare. How about “interfering with an official proceeding”(US Federal Election)? Federal crime, it has been used against peaceful January 6ers.
We need to start pasting them to Garland’s gluteus maximus.
The problem is who is going to investigate? Trump should appoint a Sheriff Arpaio type to bring in an outside team and dig out all of the files.
No one in the deep state apparatus would even bother to check the garbage cans.
I want to see Merchans daughter in an orange jumpsuit too.
Only way is if DJT fires all CIA and FBI operatives day one, and begins slowly hiring Flyover country sorts.
Dont cry, Elie! When Biden gets Cheated in again there will be Many more indictments,
+1
And my text messages include one saying that he is on his way to jail?
Rinos disgust me
The same pudding. Just keep recycling it; he'll never know.
Are State cases put on hold while someone is president? The author says this, but does anyone know the rule, if there is one?
I had no idea the Supreme Court ruling was that extensive. Great for Trump, but I admit that it destroys my fantasies of some Democrat holders of that office being someday legally accused of some of their real actions while President. (Can they get Lyndon Johnson up on animal abuse for lifting up his dog by its ears or is that considered immune, too?)
Not sure about Bragg, but Merchan has judicial immunity with respect to official acts from the bench.
in an old folks home. (With bars)
Let’s get our definitions straight: there are no “Trump legal troubles”. There is an organized effort to bury Trump’s campaign under avalanche of frivolous lawsuits.
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