The Inevitable Clash: Finally Accountability or Another Empty Sandwich?
It is hard to overstate the gravity of the criminal indictment issued against Donald Trump late Thursday by a federal grand jury. For the first time, a former president has been charged with violating federal laws, laws that he swore to uphold just over six years ago. It is the first time a former leader of the executive branch has been charged with obstructing the very agencies he led, and the first time a former commander in chief has been charged with endangering national security by violating the Espionage Act.
The indictment, unsealed on Friday, accuses Mr. Trump of 37 crimes. The majority of them — 31 of the counts — are for willful retention of national defense information, each a violation of the Espionage Act. There is one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice, in which Mr. Trump is accused of conspiring with his personal aide, Walt Nauta, to hide classified documents from the F.B.I. and the grand jury investigating the case. The other charges involve withholding documents, corruptly concealing documents and making false statements to law enforcement authorities.
If you hadn't heard about it, crawl outta your cave, brother.
I fear this is going to be another failed attempt to exercise both our unholy hatred of Trump and the desire to hold him accountable for his unpresidential behavior. I hope not. I hope he is convicted and at least is prevented from running in 2024. Shit in one hand, wish in the other, see which fills up first.
The Three Biggest Obstacles to Convicting Trump
There are, as the above article outlines, a lot of issues in securing the Crazy Lying Fat Man into a cell but what galls me is the horseshit defense he's mounting. I wonder how his strategy would work for me if I were pulled over for speeding...
"Officer, I'm sorry I was speeding but look at Joe Biden over there! He's speeding, too! What about him?"
"It's the Red Prius, isn't it? You're targeting me! No fair!"
"Listen, the law you're upholding is unjust and really old. Best to just drive away, OK?"
Chances are I'd be given a ticket and if I pushed it, like those sovereign citizen morons my window would be smashed and I'd be beaten like a child by a highway patrolman.
Not Trump, though. His superpower is that he simply refuses to acknowledge culpability. He refuses to back down. He refuses to apologize for anything. I'd argue that this is the only way to avoid the consequences of what has been dubbed 'cancel culture.' Remain wholly unapologetic for anything tossed at you like swatting away dirt clods. Like a basketball thrown at an armless boy, it bounces off and rolls away.
If the man is ultimately convicted, he's just going to hop on a plane, fly to a non-extradition country and troll us from afar. He'll continue to inflame a faithful base of enraged idiots who will, in turn, drive us all nuts with their hopeless devotion to one topic of conversation—Trump.
Trump is Lucy Van Pelt. We are all Charlie Brown. We're never kicking that fucking football, kids.
