Now We Have A Trump Indictment Horse Race. Georgia, Or The DOJ?

This just broke in the last few hours, but it’s worth watching. There has been endless speculation about who would be the first to take the plunge into the deep end of the pool, Fani Willis, Alvin Bragg, or Jack Smith. Who would be the one to take the plunge and indict a former President of the United States?

Well now we know. Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg. And kudos to him for pulling the trigger. But Bragg’s arraignment of Trump tomorrow sets off a somewhat high stakes horse race between Fulton County DA Fani Willis and DOJ Special Counsel Jack Smith as to who will send Trump on another road trip to another arraignment.

As we speak, Georgia grand juries are on hiatus for the month of April. Reporting says that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has been watching the events unwinding around Trump’s New York indictment, and that she may be ready to go before a grand jury in the first week of May to request charges.

Which gives DOJ Special Counsel Jack Smith the inside track. His grand jury is sitting, and new reporting sheds light that at least one portion of his two pronged investigation into Trump may be approaching endgame.

Today The Washington Post reported that Smith’s investigation has devastating new leads into the Trump purloined documents case. They have not only testimony but also security camera footage that, after Trump was served with a subpoena to return all outstanding documents to the National Archives, Trump ordered employees to move boxes of documents from the locked storage room to his personal quarters, where he personally went through the boxes, looking for documents he wanted to segregate and keep.

That’s bad enough, but the leak is like a bathtub faucet. It goes on to say that once Trump was through with his review, he ordered his lawyers to send the DOJ a declaration that all remaining documents at Mar-A-Lago had been returned. Which is a blatant lie, which now makes Trump lawyer Evan Corcoran’s grand jury testimony all the more valuable.

But Jack Smith is nothing if not a man who can multitask. More new reporting today states that Smith has subpoenaed Trump Secret Service Agents to appear before his Washington grand jury. Which means that Smith is rapidly closing in on Trump and his band of merry freebooters on charges dealing with the lead up and events of January 6th.

Jack Smith has an edge here. He doesn’t have to do everything at once! When he’s finished, Smith can go to the grand jury and get multiple indictments on Traitor Tot for the purloined documents. And I gotta tell you, that case looks rock solid, especially after His Lowness’s interview with Sean Hannity.

Smith can go before the federal grand jury in Washington and get indictments against Trump for the Mar-A-Lago documents any time he wants. And once he gets the indictments, he can tie Trump up in the system while his investigation keeps working on the January 6th investigation.

And once they’ve dotted all of the i’s, and crossed all of the t’s, Smith can go back in front of the grand jury and get superseding indictments against Trump there. And as frosting, he can announce indictments against miscreants like Meadows, Stone, Bannon, Navarro, Eastman, and all and sundry involved. That should give the media something to talk about.

The only question is who goes second? And if you’re a hotshot Special counsel for the DOJ, I don’t think you want to be wandering around after a cat like Fani Willis in Fulton County, staring up at old one eye. Nothing goes on forever, even criminal investigations. Personally, I’d be amazed if Smith doesn’t charge at least some place keeper charges against Trump for Mar-A-Lago, enshrining him in 2nd place, and giving him more work time. My best guess is DOJ criminal indictments against Trump on the document charges sometime between the 16-28 of April. Don’t touch that dial.