Some males are born nice. Some have greatness thrust upon them. And a few males search nice positions to keep away from authorized penalties. In accordance with sources near Donald Trump, he’s the latter this time round.
In case you haven’t been following the ex-President’s many, many authorized entanglements, right here’s a breakdown of what he’s presently dealing with:
- Prosecutors in Fulton County, Georgia are investigating tampering within the 2020 election. Trump allegedly pressured Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “discover” the votes he wanted in a cellphone name. Trump toadies Lindsey Graham and Rudy Giuliani have already been subpoenaed.
- A number of lawsuits, together with E. Jean Carroll‘s. She accused Trump of raping her again within the ’90s. It’s too lengthy for the statute of limitations, however when he publicly declared she was “completely mendacity” he opened himself to a defamation go well with.
- New York legal professional basic Letitia James is wanting into whether or not the Trump Group dedicated fraud by falsely reporting the worth of their property. (That case was on its option to deposition by the household earlier than the premature lack of Ivana on the final minute.)
- And naturally the federal authorities is investigating January 6. Over 80 individuals have already been charged for the assault on the US Capitol Constructing. If it’s confirmed Trump had an affordable expectation his followers would commit violence however stayed the course anyway, telling them to cease the certification of the election… nicely, that may very well be as severe a cost as sedition and seditious conspiracy.
Teflon Don has managed to keep away from any precise convictions or jail time thus far. Trump was in a position to delay the defamation lawsuit in opposition to him by Apprentice contestant Summer season Zervos after denying her sexual assault allegation — so lengthy that she ultimately dropped it. When his lawyer Michael Cohen was convicted on marketing campaign finance violations for making unlawful hush cash funds through the 2016 election, Trump himself skated — regardless that he was clearly the “Particular person 1” who directed Cohen to do the crime. After the investigation into Russian election interference, particular prosecutor Robert Mueller discovered there wasn’t sufficient proof of collusion — and particularly stated that was due to all of the obstruction of justice that was dedicated.
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However Trump had an ace within the gap all that point. As president, Trump had tons of authorized protections. And he desires them again!
Over the weekend, information broke that Donald had already determined to run for president once more in 2024. In accordance with a bombshell report from Rolling Stone, he’s been clear together with his inside circle how an enormous issue on that call is slipping again into the consolation of his authorized loophole. FOUR SOURCES corroborated it. One instructed the magazine Trump has “spoken about how when you find yourself the president of the US, it’s robust for politically motivated prosecutors to ‘get to you.’” The supply says as not too long ago as this summer time, the previous POTUS was nonetheless speaking about being voted into legal immunity:
“He says when [not if] he’s president once more, a brand new Republican administration will put a cease to the [Justice Department] investigation that he views because the Biden administration working to hit him with legal expenses — and even put him and his individuals in jail.”
One other supply recalled he “stated one thing like, ‘[prosecutors] couldn’t get away with this whereas I used to be president”:
“It was throughout a bigger dialogue concerning the investigations, different potential 2024 [primary] candidates, and what individuals had been saying concerning the Jan. 6 hearings … He went on for a pair minutes about how ‘some very corrupt’ individuals need to ‘put me in jail.’”
Proper. It’s actually everybody else that’s corrupt. Again on that music. Sigh…
How protected will Trump be if he wins?
It’s the coverage of the Division of Justice to not indict a sitting president. As a substitute of being charged with crimes on the federal degree, he’s purported to be impeached and tried by Congress. Which he was. Twice. However Congress isn’t an unbiased jury now, is it? So nothing got here of it. It actually didn’t stop him from operating once more.
Finally there isn’t an precise authorized precedent that formally protects the president from being charged for crimes on the state degree. BUT if any authorized query comes up, guess the place it goes? The Supreme f**kin’ Courtroom, that’s the place.
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Annoyingly identical to there’s apparently no precise rule that forces you to disclose your tax returns, there’s no rule that claims individuals underneath investigation for crimes are ineligible to run for president. And so they can apparently commit crimes so as to win — as a result of even when it’s confirmed they broke the regulation to get elected, they’ll’t be touched! Nice system of presidency we have now there.
And these 4 sources say Trump bought comfy with that degree of energy and needs it again. And if he thinks the presidency is the one factor standing between him and jail, what makes you suppose he’ll give it up?
What’ll cease him from declaring martial regulation after which getting backed up by the SCOTUS? Congress wouldn’t agree, however additionally they can’t get sufficient votes to cross something so…
Sorry for the sense of doom right here, however everybody wants to know how severe that is. A totally corrupt president doesn’t simply set a foul precedent — it may very well be the final one we get.
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