The headline’s over the last 3 years ring a familiar bell…
Donald Trump….
And ex-President who swore to uphold the law?
Going after investigators, lawyers, judges and governments state and federal, for daring to go after him…
And he has no problem going after them personally so that his supporters will do so also, with threats of violence in some cases….
Not something most prople in Deep legal trouble would do so prominatly ….
But then we’re talking about an enetrtainer that has media headslines and supporters at his beck and call….
Each time Donald Trump refers to a Georgia prosecutor ‘s colleague as her “lover,” he’s invoking a strikingly familiar turn of phrase.
After all, Trump as president repeatedly used the same word to mock two FBI officials, including an agent who helped lead the Russia election interference probe, after revelations that the pair had an extramarital relationship and had traded pejorative text messages about him.
Throughout years of scrutiny from prosecutors, culminating in 91 felony counts, Trump has repeatedly sought to deflect attention from himself by making the personal lives of investigators ripe for derision and ridicule. He’s jumped on allegations of affairs and leveled claims of bias against agents, prosecutors and judges. He’s also been quick to exploit the sometimes questionable decision-making, or occasional outright protocol breaches, by officials investigating him as a means to try to discredit entire inquiries.
“Prosecutors in the law enforcement apparatus generally are not built to respond to those types of attacks. The Department of Justice policy is: we do not try cases in the public domain. We don’t respond to every single thing that a defendant says,” said Reid Schar, a former federal prosecutor who led the corruption case against ex-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
He added: “The entire conceptual framework that Trump has moved to is not one that DOJ or frankly state-level prosecutors, for the most part, are used to playing in.”
Trump has most recently seized on revelations of a romantic relationship between Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and an outside lawyer, Nathan Wade, she hired to help manage the case….
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“Trump has shown the ability to affect public opinion in a way that may not get him out of the legal trouble he’s facing — it’s still going to be up to judges and juries — but it certainly seems to be enhancing his political viability, as unbelievable as that is,” said Greg Brower, a former assistant FBI director in the congressional affairs office….
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“To the extent he’s been successful in suggesting to people that our public officials and leadership who have taken an oath to perform their duty really aren’t doing that — yeah, that’s concerning,” he said….
Note….
Trump IS clever in tapping into the fear one would have against getting caught doing something wrong…..
But?
He HAS stiffened the resolve of a LOT judges to come down against his efforts to undermine them…
THAT?
He does worry and is correct WILL cost him down the road….
I would estimate the odds that Trump will be put on trial for either the Georgia cases the Jack Smith case or the Flotida case are now at best 50/50.
That leaves just the New York case ,the least important of the charges he is facing.
His odds of being convicted in NYC ARE WTF above 50%
Let’s not forget the $83M and possible $30M+ bill’s he’s gonna be doling out in NY….
Jack, are you putting those 50/50 odds on Trump facing trial (1) before the election or (2) if he becomes President again or (3) ever (regardless) ?
Before the election…Sorry just noticed I left that out.
However, will note that if Trump is elected?Then there’s a good chance none of them will go forward.
Certainly not Florida
The DC trial like post says IS bound to happen mid to late summer……
A appeal’s court and a Supreme Court ok by April?
Boom!
Landscape changes
It’s up those two courts
The NYC trial I believe WILL HAPPEN in the next month….