Trump Lashes Out At Prosecutors Like a Man Who Knows He's About to be Accountable

[Zorro]

TRUMP LASHES OUT AT PROSECUTORS LIKE A MAN WHO KNOWS HE’S ABOUT TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HIS LIFE -- (entire headline)

One of the most frustrating things about Donald Trump is the fact that despite being what U.S. penal code 212(j)(1)(j) defines as “a hugely corrupt motherf--ker,” for most of his 75 years on earth, he’s escaped any and all responsibility for his actions. Oh, sure, he’s paid some money here and there to make things that would be a huge deal for anyone else a footnote in his biography, and yeah, he did agree to have his charity shut down after it was accused by the New York attorney general of “persistently illegal conduct,” but largely, the guy has gotten away with everything, from attempting to extort another country for his own political gain to lying to the public about the severity of a highly contagious disease to inciting an insurrection that left five people dead and then “gleefully” watching it on TV like it was a pay-per-view boxing match he and his son did the commentary for. And yet! As investigations into the ex-president ramp up, it appears his run of luck may be coming to an end, a prediction we‘re basing solely on the fact that he sounds like he knows the walls are closing in.

Yes, over the course of a characteristically unhinged rally on Saturday night, during which he painted an alarming picture in which he (1) is reelected to the White House in 2024 and (2) pardons the people who violently attacked the Capitol on January 6, 2021, Trump took the time to lash out at a trio of prosecutors investigating him for a smorgasbord of alleged wrongdoing. In what CNN has called “an extraordinary assault,” the ex-president went on an extended attack against New York attorney general Letitia James and Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg, later throwing in Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis for good measure. Without mentioning any of the investigators by name, Trump told the crowd: “These prosecutors are vicious, horrible people, they’re racists and they’re very sick, they’re mentally sick. They’re going after me without any protection of my rights by the Supreme Court, or most other courts. In reality, they’re not after me, they’re after you. And I just happen to be the person that’s in the way. That’s what they’re after, it’s been going on for years.”

Link to tweet

He continued:

“For years they’ve been going after my company, many years, using every trick in the book in an attempt to literally, if they can, put me in jail, they want to put me in jail. This has been going on since I came down the escalator with our great future first lady who everybody loves…local prosecutors in New York and other locations who horribly campaigned for office on ‘We’re going to get Trump…we’re gonna get him,’ then got elected and are working overtime to fulfill their campaign promises. They’ve subpoenaed more than 9 million pages—big company—of documents of virtually every deal I’ve ever done hoping to find a mistake, an error, misspelled words, a comma out of place, or anything else that they can find that might be just a little bit wrong. We relied on major law firms and accounting firms and other professionals to do this work and to the best of my knowledge they did it very, very well. As an example, the attorney general of New York has hundreds of venomous quotes about me during her campaign. The district attorney of Manhattan, where crime death and killings are rampant like never before has happily stated that ‘I have sued Trump more than any other person alive, more than 100 times.’ Then he gets elected to take over the former attorney general’s job and he’s been after my family for years but unable to find anything, they haven’t been able to fine anything other than a fringe benefits case. And accountants will tell you, fringe benefits cases are not criminal cases, there’s never been that they know of a fringe benefits case. There’s never been a witch hunt or a fishing expedition like this, there’s never been anything like it…. This has been going on as long as you’ve known me and it will continue as long as I’m leading in the polls...If these radical racist vicious prosecutors do anything wrong or illegal I hope we are going to have in this country the biggest protest we have ever had in Washington, D.C., in New York, in Atlanta, and elsewhere.”

There’s a lot going on here. Let’s start with the fact that it’s really quite something to watch Trump, an abject racist, accuse three Black prosecutors of racism against him. But mostly, Trump’s fevered performance suggests that he’s completely terrified of the consequences that might be coming for him. If you haven’t been keeping up with the various developments across all of the investigations into the ex-president, as a reminder, Letitia James has been looking into alleged wrongdoing by the Trump Organization for more than two years, and earlier this month, said in a court filing that her office had found “significant evidence” of fraud committed by the family business. Announcing legal action against them, James said in a statement that “Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Jr., and Ivanka Trump have all been closely involved in the transactions in question, so we won’t tolerate their attempts to evade testifying in this investigation,” a turn of events that the ex-president flipped out over, suggesting that his “children” should be off limits despite the fact that they are in their 40s and have both been senior executives at the Trump Organization, including during the time being examined by James.

As for Trump’s claims during the rally in regards to James’s investigation, it may not surprise you to learn they’re extremely Trumpian in that they’re total bullshit. For example, when he speaks of the millions of pages of documents the Trump Organization has turned over, he conveniently leaves out the fact that, per James, the company has not “made anything approaching a complete production of documents for Mr. Trump,“ including the handwritten notes the famously email and computer-averse Trump used to “communicate with employees.” When he talks about it supposedly being improper for James to have campaigned on holding him accountable, he does not mention that approximately 63% of his 2016 campaign was about locking Hillary Clinton up (the other 37% arguably being about racism and making Mexico pay for the wall).

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/01/donald-trump-letitia-james-alvin-bragg-fani-willis-outburst

[captain queeg]

1. Yeah he's getting scared. And too stupid to keep his mouth shut.

He’s no longer in a position of power other than his death grip on the R party. When the various prosecutors lay out their evidence (and hopefully DOJ will soon join the crowd) it’s going to be hard for any judge to ignore. And he continually shits on people that have been strong supporters. If his political endorsements fall flat watch for the rats to leave the sinking ship. I think he sees that coming. That’s why now he is trying to incite the magat base, hoping they’ll save him. But they are much like him, loudmouth trouble makers who aren’t going to stick their necks out for him.

But I’ve been watching and waiting for years to see him served some justice. I hope the fall is equivalent to all the scams he has perpetrated.

[heckles65]

2. I've been a criminal defense lawyer

I've had delusional clients spinning vast stories of BS, but Trump ranks with the worst of them (and yes, I am thinking of a particular person).

[Skittles]

3. I am curious, do you think Trump will ever be held accountable

I mean, the man has been corrupt his entire adult life.