Mark Meadows Crashed And Burned Today. And He Took Everybody Else With Him

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Man!, today was pretty much a legal disaster for anybody aligned with Team Trump. But for once, just for sh*ts-and-grins, let’s start with the main course, and then circle back to the soup and salad.

Mark Meadows took a real legal trip behind the woodshed today. His judge in Atlanta federal court politely but decisively declined to spare Meadows the torture of Fulton County DA Fani Willis’s chamber of horrors, and ruled that his trial will remain in Fulton County, where it was filed.

This is an unmitigated disaster for Meadows, since it was widely seen that his only real legal prayer was to get his trial severed from Fulton County and heard in federal court, where not only would he get a more favorable jury pool, but also where he could beg a federal judge to impose federal immunity and give him a get-out-of-jail-free card. Which most legal analysts agreed was a pipe dream.

But it’s an equally unmitigated disaster for several others in the Hole-in-the-head gang, several of whom were considering trying the same stunt. While weak, Meadows was supposed to have the argument with the most lift to it. Because Meadows was using the classic Nuremberg defense, I vas chust followink orders! Meadows claimed that as a duly sworn federal officer, he was just doing what Trump ordered him to do. After all, God forbid his punk ass should get yelled at by Traitor Tot!

The next one on the list is most likely His Lowness. As I wrote rather sarcastically yesterday, Trump’s lawyers submitted a motion to the Georgia judge that they may ask for the trial to be moved to federal court. This is like a 6 year old telling his mother that he may run away. All hat and no cattle.

And here’s the McGuffin. El Pendejo Presidente can’t even claim the Meadows defense. After all, Trump wasn’t taking orders, he was giving them. And if Trump is planning on claiming unlimited immunity, good luck with that one. Every court that has heard it has wiped their *sses with it.

And now Baldilocks, Jeffrey Clark is planning on using the same defense to move his case to federal court. And his reasoning is even more asinine than Meadows. True, Clark was a federal officer, but he was just another drone in the Environmental Department of the DOJ. Clark had nothing to do with the election results, but was dumb enough to write a letter telling the false elector states that the FBI had found massive vote fraud in their states, and to name a new slate of electors. He’s toast.

And here’s the cherry on top. Some or all of these mental midgets will try the same scam, and also go down in flames. And just like Meadows announced today, will appeal the ruling to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. Which has been a notoriously conservative court. But their recent performance tends to bring that into dispute;

• It was the 11th Circuit that backed the district court in calling the Dobbs case a legal joke, allowing the SCOTUS to sh*t all over judicial precedent
• It was the 11th Circuit who just slapped Alabama a 2nd time, by appointing a Special Master to redraw the Alabama congressional map, since they were incapable of following SCOTUS orders
• And the one Traitor Tot should take most closely to heart, it was the 11th Circuit that now once, but twice brutally slapped down traffic court judge Aileen Cannon for overstepping her boundaries in trying to pay back her benefactor. And if she got roasted twice in two months for judicial stupidity, what chance does Trump have, especially with his K-Mart crew of lawyers?

The 11th Circuit may be conservative, but it’s most definitely not MAGA. And if they move with the same judicial speed they chose to use in slicing Cannon off at the knees twice, The Don Cornholeone Mob is going to find cold comfort from the 11th Circuit, and most likely a short-drop-to-a-sudden-stop.

And now for some lighter news to end our day with a smile. Sidney Powell announced through her mouthpiece today that she is going to immediately file a motion before the Fulton County judge to sever her case from the other 17 defendants, including Trump. Come on, Woman! You couldn’t even get the same judge to sever your case from Chesebros, and he didn’t even buy you a ring! Besides, with all of these motions, none of the other 17 defendants is going to be ready for trial on October 23rd. You brain dead twit.

What you’re looking at is exactly what I predicted, and Willis and judge McAfee’s worst nightmare. Every man-jackin’ one of these defendants is going to throw up every motion they can. They know they’re stuck in Fulton County, so the Hail Mary is to delay, delay, delay and pray for a Trump victory. But by the speed with which Judge McAfee ruled from the bench in denying Chesebros motion to sever from Powell, and his insistence on holding motion hearings every Friday, where he will highly likely rule from the bench on most motions, he isn’t playing that game. Chesebro and Powell will go to trial on October 23rd, and the rest, broken up however, will go to trial as expeditiously as McAfee can manage it. You’re not in Kansas anymore, Dorothy. The wheels of justice can turn quickly when they want to. And as always, Thank you for the privilege of your time.