It has not been a good week in Donald the McDonald’s life. Over Labor Day he began to sweat the awful truth that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment could indeed bounce him off a lot of ballots. He called this a “trick” when he first heard about it. Now it’s dawning on him that this provision has been in the Constitution since 1866 and maybe, just maybe, his Dollar General lawyers can’t waltz him around it. Ergo, the usual explosion over on Truth Social. I can only imagine that once his aides realize Trump is coming unglued again, they run in with the Adderall and take his blood pressure and put an ice pack on his head.
And as usual, he had to put his uber simplistic rationalization of how the law works up there.
And the entire day has been going this way.
The Georgia Grand Jury report has just been released. It has ZERO credibility and badly taints Fani Willis and this whole political Witch Hunt. Essentially, they wanted to indict anybody who happened to be breathing at the time. It totally undermines the credibility of the… pic.twitter.com/pBTeGWsqqG
— Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) September 8, 2023
“not happy with this charade of an out of control “prosecutor” doing the work of and for the DOJ. ELECTION INTERFERENCE!”
So that’s his state of mind this Friday afternoon, ELECTION INTERFERENCE! MAGA! WHERE’S MY DIET COKE, WALT! WALT?!! WHAT DO YOU MEAN, WALT’S NOT HERE, HE’S TALKING TO JACK SMITH?! WAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!! I WANT WALT! I WANT MY COKE!
And that well could be the next step. The conviction of Peter Navarro is a wake up call. Or it should be. Some people think Walt Nauta may be the next one to save himself rather than go to prison for Trump.
It’s been predicted for a while now that when Trump’s co-defendants begin to topple, it’s going to be like a string of dominoes, when the first one goes, the entire kit and kaboodle topples shortly thereafter.
Yuscil Taveras, the IT man at Mar-a-Lago, may have been the first domino. But surely Walt Nauta, if he fell, would be the harbinger of the flipping of Jenna Ellis, Rudy Giuliani and a host of others.
Trump knows the situation is out of control. There are too many variables. You have 19 defendants in one case, that’s a lot of variables. And Trump particularly hates the Georgia case, for the precise reason that it’s the most incriminating and RICO is a serious felony.
Jack Smith will undoubtedly prevail on the classified documents case, that’s pretty open and shut. The January 6 Insurrection case is a bit more problematic, but Smith will bring that home, too. And Trump isn’t losing too much sleep over Leticia James and the problems in New York, not with these other whales to fry.
But he does lose sleep over Fani Willis and Georgia. He can’t escape state charges even if he does manage to get back in the White House and does manage to self-pardon and those are two big ifs. Plus, the Georgia case is put together ingeniously. Georgia will bring it all home. New York Times:
When the Fulton County, Ga., district attorney, Fani Willis, filed criminal charges against Donald Trump and over a dozen of his allies for their attempt to overturn Georgia’s 2020 presidential election results, she did something ingenious.
In contrast to the special counsel Jack Smith’s latest laser-focused federal indictment of Mr. Trump, Ms. Willis charges a wide range of conspirators, from people in the Oval Office to low-level Georgia G.O.P. functionaries, and is the first to plumb the full depths, through a state-focused bathyscaph, of the conspiracy.
Her case also provides other important complements to the federal matter: Unlike Mr. Smith’s case, which will almost certainly not be broadcast because of federal standards, hers will almost certainly be televised, and should Mr. Trump or another Republican win the White House, Ms. Willis’s case cannot be immediately pardoned away. It offers transparency and accountability insurance. As she said in her news conference on Monday night, “The state’s role in this process is essential to the functioning of our democracy.”
But the indictment stands out, above all, because Georgia offers uniquely compelling evidence of election interference — and a set of state criminal statutes tailor-made for the sprawling, loosely organized wrongdoing that Mr. Trump and his co-conspirators are accused of engaging in. It is a reminder of the genius of American federalism: When our democracy is threatened, states have an indispensable part to play in protecting it. […]
The large cast of defendants populates a complete conspiracy chain of command and features the famous (Mr. Trump, his chief of staff Mark Meadows and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani), the infamous (the Trump lawyers John Eastman, Ken Chesebro and Jeffrey Clark) and the otherwise unknown (including Georgia state false electors and local Trump campaign allies without whom the plot would have stalled).
Ms. Willis ties them all together by levying one charge against Mr. Trump and each of the 18 other defendants under Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act, or RICO, accusing Mr. Trump and his co-conspirators of functioning as a criminal gang.
The other Trump cases are bad, but the Georgia case is damning. Trump will go down in flames along with his coterie of crooks, his aviary of allies. There’s an aspect of spectacle to the Georgia case that is absent with all the others, although the presence of porn star Stormy Daniels does lend some glamor to what would otherwise be a mundane white collar crime.
Georgia exposes Trump as the bumbling Godfather figure that he is, with incompetent capos like Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, staging press conferences in parking lots between a sex shoppe and a crematorium. The most ludicrous and embarrassing dirt is going to come out in the Georgia case.
And the Republicans down there have betrayed Trump, as he sees it. Brian Kemp has been officially declared an enemy of MAGA for having the hubris to tell Trump he wouldn’t seek to remove Fani Willis as the prosecutor. The former Lt. Governor, Geoff Duncan, has shown up in Trump’s crosshairs on Truth Social. And Brad Raffensberger was the one who got him busted in the first place, recording the call.
Georgia is Trump’s Waterloo. And he knows it. Expect the explosions to come daily. And maybe Trump will even do another 102-post day like he did a few days ago. That was a real mini-nervous breakdown. There will be more of them until the entire house of cards falls on his head.
Yes, the Georgia case is the juiciest and the most damaging to Republicans in general. I hope they don’t banish Trump to a Mediterranean island like they did Napoleon. I would like to see him in prison without parole for thirty years. I want to see how long it takes him to grow a pony tale and to get prison tats on both his arms. I’m going with Russia, Russia, Russia on one arm and The Perfect Phone Call on the other.
Um, Napoleon–believe it or not–chose the “Mediterranean island” (assuming you do mean Elba) as part of his decision to abdicate his throne in 1814; the forces allied against Napoleon agreed to his exile to Elba, even allowing him to retain his title of Emperor and establishing the island as an independent principality with Napoleon as leader.
Napoleon’s final exile–to St Helena–was hardly to a “Mediterranean island.” St Helena is a small island (less than 50 square miles) pretty much in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean, nearly 1200 miles west of Africa. The climate isn’t generally horrible but it is very isolated (a royal mail ship operating between Cape Town, South Africa and St Helena would take 5 DAYS to travel, and that was with a modern ship with motor-driven propellers; just imagine a ship relying on sails and/or oars–steam-powered ships would only appear a few years after Napoleon first set foot on St Helena). And the place where Napoleon spent his final years was in pretty decrepit shape with claims of mold and drafty conditions that weren’t too good for general health.
Right now I’d imagine Don Jr.’s “job” is to keep Walt Nauta distracted, overwhelmed with hookers and blow. ANYTHING to keep him from thinking about getting another lawyer from outside Trump World who would tell spirit him straight to the prosecutors to cut a deal!
That would be an extraordinarily stupid thing to do with all the eyes on Nauta. Yeah, I think dipshit jr. would jump on it.
how can Nauta still be employed by Trump when they aren’t supposed to be discussing the case without their lawyers? it’s all Trump talks about.
Trump is far from being the only boss to be accused of a crime(s) to have an employee(s) that works for them also accused of helping out at least in part. Everyone in the process knows, KNOWS that despite a judge’s order instead of only talking business they will talk about the case against them but absent 24/7 audio surveillance there’s nothing that can be done. If the employer were to fire the employee they’d be subject to a wrongful termination lawsuit. If the employee were to simply quit then they’d lose their income and good luck trying to get another job while under indictment. It all comes down to due process and the presumption of innocence in our legal system. Like I said, everyone knows damn well these kinds of people will ignore a judge’s order but unless incarcerated pending trial what can legally be done? In white-collar cases you’re talking about people with power and/or money that can arrange to remain out on bail while awaiting trial. It’s not fair, but the fact is that the justice system is two-tiered and for those with money/power get privileges most of us don’t. It sucks, but that’s how it is.
Bless his constricted heart. I look at him and see the movie “scanners”.Am I wrong to think that, or still the optimistic little girl I always was?
How can something be ‘election interference’ when the respective parties haven’t even selected their candidates for an election that is well over a year away?
Having seen the inside of a state penitentiary as a political prisoner, St. Helena sounds like club med. Baby huey wouldn’t last 6 months living in a concrete closet with rabid wolves roaming around looking for a fat, pampered, entitled sheep. There’s no use crying WOLF! It would only bring more wolves. Federal prison is a summer camp compared to state prison. It must wake him up with cold sweats when his subconscious stirs reality in his sleep, and his narcissism is on snooze.