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| credit: R. Matson |
Don 'Legit's' strategy of legal delay is working. The most serious criminal prosecution in DC is stalled awaiting an appeals court decision on his implausible claim of absolute immunity unless first convicted in the Senate. This defense has no basis in the Constitution or common law, and from a common sense standpoint is absurd, but it is accomplishing the real purpose: moving him closer to the November election. He already has his party's backing after winning Iowa (he won 7% of the state's registered Repugnants, oh my!), and probably New Hampshire, in the primary process. Two hundred of his party's legislators have signed an amicus brief supporting his baseless immunity argument. Don 'Legit' owns the Repugnants, and campaign contributions keep his legal blitz at full tilt.
He knows that winning in November is his best hope of escaping imprisonment for his crimes while in office. His supporters are willing to pervert the democratic process in order to keep him out of jail. Fully sixty percent of them still claim that Joe Biden stole the 2020 election at this late date. Real social issues of national import have no meaning for these delusional minions. Neither does evidence of crime admissible in court change their minds; most will still vote for him even if he is convicted of a felony out of 91charged by grand juries who have examined the evidence.
Federal District Court Judge Chutkin has already warned that her March trial date will slip given that Trumpilini will take his appeals all the way to the Supreme Court. In Georgia, the state's prosecution faces another farce cooked up by co-defendant Mike Roman who claims that DA Willis and her entire office must resign because she is allegedly romantically involved with a Special Prosecutor in the case who is undergoing an uncontested two-year divorce proceeding. That fact does not stop his criminal defense counsel demanding DA Willis be deposed in the divorce proceedings. Clearly a red herring intended to disrupt the established time table for her RICO prosecution. Calls for her resignation are growing. In Florida, the Mar-a Lago Papers case is being mangled by an incompetent jurist beholding to Hair Leader for her life-tenure job. Our judicial system is failing against a chaos agent with significant political leverage and financing.
US Person never thought he would live to see the day American democracy died. That would be the result if the befuddled*, self-confessed dictator who wants to "go rogue" occupies the room without corners for a second time. 'Mericans will then only have themselves to blame for the misery to be visited upon them.
*Person, woman, man, camera, TV...whale?