Wednesday, July 19, 2023
Michigan’s Attorney General has brought charges against the 16 folks who signed on to be fake electors declaring Donald Trump to have won that state when they knew otherwise.
So what? So it’s eight counts each with a 14 year term in jail.
Lemms see, 14 x 8 = 120 years. Most of these people are in their 70s. So they’ll get out of jail when they are 190. Sounds fair. How about ten years off for good behavior?
And these folks are heads of the Republican Party in Michigan. That’s okay, you can run the party from your jail cell, right? I mean the current front runner, if he wins might have to rule the country from a jail cell. A state jail cell because he’ll pardon himself on Federal charges but still.
The question becomes, “which state?”
Trump has so many criminal acts he is charged with, in so many jurisdictions, it’s hard to know where he’ll go to trial first and where he’ll spend his first night in jail.
Important questions remain, like – “Will we get to watch as they shave his head?”
“Will he wear a set of gold diamond encrusted handcuffs designed by his daughter when he does the perp walk?”
“Will Jared be right behind him doing the walk?”
“Will Ivanka?” (I did nothing. – We know.)
So many questions.
When I heard the news people reviewing the cases and the states and the possible dates for trials I saw Pigpen, Charles Shultz’s comic character who was always dirty and was surrounded and trailed by a cloud of dirt, but it was Trump not Pigpen (I could tell by the hair), and in the swirling brown cloud trailing him were subpoenas and torts and arrest warrants, and all kinds of legal stuff flying out behind him. And people, loyalists, trampled underfoot.
The thing that gets me is how little defense he has been able to mount. Other than saying his stock phrases, like, “It’s a disgrace what they are doing,” and statements we’ve all heard before he seems to have little to argue.
One thing I’ve learned through all this is that the law is written in such a way as to say, “Blah blah blah means if you have done the following things you are guilty of the crime of Blah blah blah.”
Volume two of the Mueller Report lays out ten charges against Trump. Six of them there is no question. The evidence is there in black and white. Four might need a little help. Prosecutors have said that any prosecutor with one (or both) arms tied behind their back could get a conviction based on that report. Why that hasn’t happened I don’t know.
Last night I heard Jamie Raskin say that if Trump is convicted of Insurrection he can no longer serve as President. I think that’s what he said. I wonder if Trump would still be entitled to Secret Service protection?
If I heard the Congressman correctly then I guess we wouldn’t have to impeach him again and find him guilty to remove the Secret Service protection?
So many questions.
Meanwhile, a young man won Wimbledon. Perhaps a new era is dawning?
Do not mess with Dana Nessel. She’s got balls of steel. Those 16 asshats are going to go through some things.
Love the Pigpen reference!
Yeah? I’ve always liked Dana.
Ari had a woman on last night. Prosecutor of some type. he tried to make some cute comments. She wasn’t having it. Stared straight ahead. Man, talk about tough? Whoa.