Trump Is A “Target” For J6. Indictments To Follow, And The Implications Are Staggering

Well, well, well. So it looks like the Dumpy Despot may finally be about to face his comeuppance. Always one to control the media narrative for fundraising purposes, Traitor Tot blasted out yesterday on Bullsh*t Social that he had received a Target Letter from the DOJ, giving him until close of business Thursday to appear before the DC grand jury. Don’t hold your breath on that one unless you look good blue all over.

Charges could be filed as soon as Friday. I told y’all that there was no way Jack Smith was going to let Fulton County DA Fani Willis not only steal his media thunder, but get a leg up in the court scheduling derby. And now it finally looks like Trump’s past is finally about to catch up with him.

When these indictments hit, this is a whole new level or peril foe Trump, both legal and personal, from anything he has ever known before. For several reasons. First, there is no comparison between the import of the two cases. National Security secrets or not, Trump has done a good job of making this look like a document storage disagreement. Doesn’t mean that he won’t get convicted, but it’s basically still a boring paper trail case. But there’s no way that a prosecutor can wheel a widescreen into the courtroom, play the 187 minutes worth of network coverage of the Capito riot, and have it look like anything but what it was, an organized coup attempt.

And this is just the crackers on the table while you’re waiting for your soup course to get there. If I was representing Trump, and thank God I don’t, the first thing I would when the indictments dropped would be to turn to El Pendejo Presidente and say, Buckle up Dorothy, you’re not in Kansas anymore.

For starters, no more hand picked, cow county yokel judges to go running to. The DC circuit is chock-a-block full of judges who have all handled high profile, public corruption cases before breakfast. And Trump’s little spin on the judicial wheel should feel more like a game of Russian roulette then getting a judge assigned. How about judge Beryl Howell, who signed off on Jack Smith’s charge that forced attorney testimony and document production from Trump’s personal lawyers. Or how about judge Amy Berman Jackson, who was the personal demon of every Trump miscreant who crossed her path. But my favorite would be judge Emmett Sullivan, who actually got pissed at the DOJ for not charging General disgrace Michael Flynn with treason.

When it comes to charges, temper your expectations. When you’re taking down a former President, a win beats a sensational charge every time. I’m not looking at seditious conspiracy, although that’s certainly possible. I’m looking more for conspiracy to defraud the US government, Conspiracy to obstruct an official government function, then I’d look for things like mail fraud, wire fraud, bank fraud and misappropriation of funds stemming from his bogus Trump Legal Defense Fund fundraising scam. The one chance I could see Smith taking would be charging him with aiding and abetting an insurrection, since conviction would bar Trump from holding any public office, federal, state, or local.

And all of you who needed a fainting couch when Smith refused to even consider moving the documents case to another location like DC, you can put that gin bottle away now, the shoe is about to be on the other foot. The first thing Trump’s lawyers will scream for is a change of venue since His Lowness can’t get a fair trial in heavily Democratic DC. To which Smith stands up and says, Your honor, right now we’re preparing for trial in the documents case in Florida in a district that Trump won by 51 points. Maybe the defense should just put their big boy pants on.

But here’s potentially the most explosive result of these indictments. Played right, they may just make Judge Aileen Cannon almost totally irrelevant. Trump is hoping to parlay either Cannon’s fealty to him, or her judicial inexperience to at the very least delay the documents trial until after the 2024 election. But that may well end up to be the least of his worries.

The DC circuit is full of vastly experienced judges. Unlike Cannon, they are highly unlikely to fall for Trump’s claims of campaign interference and an incredibly complicated case! If Smith has an early August arraignment for Trump and any codefendants, and a mid to late September, it’s possible that the judge, claiming public interest, could set a trial date in mid to late January, after Trump’s second bout with E Jean Carroll. Which would make anything Cannon does later almost unnoticed. Better for Cannon’s ego to go ahead with the prosecution requested December trial date, when she’ll still rule the roost.

One more thing. As Ryan Gosling said in Blade Trinity, It started with Blade, and it ended with Blade. And all the rest of us were just along for the ride. This is all about Trump. When the indictments are announced, with the single exception of a John Eastman or Rudy Giuliani for the conspiracy charges, don’t look for a laundry list of other names. There can always be another presser to nail flunkies like Epsteyn, Navarro, Eastman, and anybody else Smith scoops up. Trump is going to be the only star in this spotlight. As it should be.