Donald Trump still thinks he can escape this -- but Jack Smith has him cornered
Donald Trump still thinks he can escape this but Jack Smith has him cornered
For all his bluster, Trump is almost out of options. This will be the last chapter of his lifetime grift
By BRIAN KAREM
Columnist
PUBLISHED JUNE 15, 2023 9:00AM (EDT)
(Salon) According to Donald Trump, he won't quit the presidential race even if he's convicted of the felony charges he now faces in Miami federal court.
That leaves open, for the moment, the interesting possibility that the next president of the United States might take the oath of office in Leavenworth before springing himself with a pardon, hopping on Air Force One in Kansas City and flying back in glorious triumph over the rule of law and putting in motion a revenge act fueled by rage and violence.
That's the horror show many people fear and Trump doesn't mind if you do. Less than an hour after his arraignment in Miami on Tuesday, on a 37-count indictment, he was headed back to Bedminster, New Jersey, on his private jet and sending emails to his faithful followers urging them once again to fill the coffers of a supposed billionaire fighting for his imaginary noble cause.
This is typical Donald Trump.
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Is Donald Trump's goose finally cooked? Well, it has been for some time. He put himself in the pot long ago, but like the cartoon Daffy Duck that he seems to be, he keeps blowing out the match as the hunters try to start the fire under his pot. He uses his natural inert gasses and noxious aroma to do it. But now comes the blowtorch-wielding Bugs Bunny or at least Coach Beard, or rather special counsel Jack Smith, straight out of central casting. He looks like dead-eye Marshal Earp, descending on Trump like the angel of death. He just needs the hat.
Cold, calm and completely unimpressed by the former president's ability to bully and sell baloney, Smith came to the podium following the unsealing of the indictment, made a terse statement to the press, took no questions and left one reporter obsequiously trying to get one in. Smith's message was clear he's coming for Donald. ...............(more)
https://www.salon.com/2023/06/15/donald-still-thinks-he-can-escape-this--but-jack-smith-has-him-cornered/

Walleye
(37,500 posts)brush
(58,717 posts)the NJ card SC Smith has in his pocket. Hell, I don't think she can save him in Florida even.
ProudMNDemocrat
(19,383 posts)No doubt that SC Smith has several cards in his pockets to convince a jury that TFIFG is GUILTY. For SC Smith is one smart cookie that has the goods on the orange pos.
brush
(58,717 posts)lastlib
(25,225 posts)"Directed verdict." At any point after the prosecutors have presented their case, she can simply, with or without reason, order the jury to return with a "not guilty" verdict. I cannot put it past this one.
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Hermit-The-Prog
(36,631 posts)In one case, sensitive national security information "releasable only to the Five Eyes intelligence alliance consisting of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States," was found spilled on the floor in a storage room.
I noticed that in the indictment, and wondered at the time if maybe someone had been taking photos of pages and had to exit quickly.
Botany
(73,104 posts)This is a must read:
For all his bluster, Trump is almost out of options. This will be the last chapter of his lifetime grift
"Trump is trying to sound confident as he protests that he's only being prosecuted because he's running for
office. Actually, it's the other way around: He's running for office to save himself from being prosecuted."
"So now the end is near and this much is certain: Donald Trump is writing his own last act as he faces his final
curtain. He's done it his way. A lifetime of flying by the seat of his pants with no care for anyone but himself
is finally catching up to him, even as he scrawls his plans in the dust trying desperately to write his way out
of his latest misadventure."
Wednesdays
(20,328 posts)Judge Cannon says, "Case dismissed," or "No jail time," then what?
lastlib
(25,225 posts)Then we are back where we started, with AnusMouth free and screeching his toxic bile.
Wednesdays
(20,328 posts)And to him and his cult, it PROVES it was all just a witch hunt.
Shipwack
(2,439 posts)Out of his back pocket.
Blue Owl
(55,205 posts)Until the inevitable....
ProfessorPlum
(11,416 posts)is it?
Wednesdays
(20,328 posts)"No man can serve as his own judge and jury." Thereby nixing the idea of someone pardoning himself.
But who knows with this SCOTUS?
ProfessorPlum
(11,416 posts)Jakes Progress
(11,195 posts)we saw a bunch of these headlines before only substitute Mueller for Jack Smith.
I'm quite cock-eyed, but I'm not a big optimist. It's not that trump is so wily. It's the woodwork roaches like barr that keep messing things up. Lots of bad actors out there.
lark
(24,493 posts)Cannon can dismiss the Fl case with prejudice and there is nothing Smith can do about it~
However, the criminal calls where he showed national security docs to 2 people with no security clearances came from Bedminster NJ and is not charged in the FL docs. Smith can charge this separately in NJ and fuck Cannon - she then would be totally useless to tfg. NJ gets a new judge (hopefully someone with good experience and not a fascist) and a much better jury pool. Bring it on !!!
republianmushroom
(18,663 posts)28 months and counting
FakeNoose
(36,500 posts)Also he craves the psychological, emotional rush that his fans give him in the campaign rallies. Take that away and he's got nothin'. Well, we all know that he had nothin' anyway.
But take away the campaign grift and rush, and then he has to admit to HIMSELF that he's got nothin'.