There are family men who are spending time with their families in these days leading up to Christmas. Donald Trump is not one of them. He’s faaaar too strung out worried about his legal problems, particularly the threat of a criminal referral being made against him and possibly Mark Meadows, Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman and a few others.
It would be an interesting thing to see, because Trump has always posed a conundrum in criminal law. Basically, the two elements of a crime are the actus reas and the mens rea, the actual thing that was done and the state of mind of the miscreant. State of mind is a BFD in criminal law. It can make the difference between first degree murder and involuntary manslaughter, sometimes.
The problem Trump brings to any criminal assessment is that his very sanity has been questioned over the years. Does he even know what he’s doing? I fully expect that if a criminal referral is made on Trump — and clearly he’s worried that it might be, or why the Sunday night, all caps primal scream on Truth Social? — that his state of mind will be an issue. It’s a lot like what Mike Lindell’s lawyers are anticipated to plead, albeit in a civil case, that Mike is too far out there to know what’s what. That may be tried by the Trump lawyers as well.
That was Round One. Then he must have watched a conspiracy theory show he particularly liked, because here’s the second, all caps shriek.
It’s his usual bloviating, pathetic nonsense. Granted. What he says is not the takeaway here. The takeaway is that it’s Sunday night, Mar-a-Lago has partiers a plenty. After all, it’s two weeks before Christmas, the place will be packed from now until the end of the year.
But Trumpty is not living it up, no, he’s off in a corner with his telephone melting down on social media.
He’s worried. Trump has always tipped his hand about what worries him. All you have to do is see what evil or incompetence he’s projecting onto somebody else and you know that’s what he’s doing himself that very moment.
Interesting that the criminal referrals are getting to him.
I particularly want to see what happens with Mark Meadows. I do believe he is the linchpin, always have.
I think is a case of mens insano in corpore insana
Twitter doesn’t do the counting of voters (or certify results) so how, exactly’ doe a set of tweets ‘reveal fraud’?
Nancy Pelosi didn’t have the authority to call out even the boy scouts, never mind the US army or the national guard – that power rested with the nominal ‘president’ (and he didn’t do it).
The January 6 committee hasn’t released its report or findings – so how does he know what the evidence is?
Just because he’s paranoid doesn’t mean people aren’t out to get him (there’s probably a mile long queue)
9/1oth of icebergs are submerged and while the J6 hearings were chock full of information they are only the part of the iceberg above the surface. No doubt some of the witnesses, both those we heard on TV and stuff we didn’t were reluctant, and probably via their attorney’s shared what questions they were asked and information they provided. So Trump knows there is evidence that if not already in the hand of DOJ it will be. He doesn’t know everything they have (or what the DOJ has) but he knows enough. Enough to be scared. He may have even gotten a target letter.
As for calling out the Guard, we have video of Pelosi (and Schumer) talking (along with Pence) to the Pentagon about convincing the WH/President to do so. Something he kept avoiding/refusing for far too long. (They should have been geared up and ready for deployment if needed before his rally on the mall even started. But multiple agencies dropped the ball. Intentionally? Perhaps. Gut untangling that mess is like sticking your junk into a hornet’s nest and beating the side with a stick)
And TFG definitely doesn’t know everything DOJ has. DOJ isn’t talking, either.
Ignorance of the law is never a reason for dismissal of charges … in Trump’s case, his stupendous and biggest/best world of mixed-information occurs at every moment his mouth is open, just about anything may pop out of his maw …
I believe he has just realized his playing keep-away with bunches of super-classified documents, may cost him a humiliating Court appearance, you know the one, where experts say things like only a dork, dead from the neck up, would do such a stupid thing …
His complete absence of responsibility, formed years ago, has conflicted with his on-going plans, someone will wisely, advise him to turn left, then, his totally missing intelligence, allows that he turn right …
If these scream fests get any worse, the bulging blood vessels in his neck may spell his real and final play without any reality getting in way of his rush to his own hell …
Insanity is an affirmative defense which means his lawyers have to.prove that because he was nuts at the time he didn’t understand the nature and quality of the crime at the time he committed it. Just being loudmouthed nut burger isn’t enough. The burden of proof is on the defense and requires “clear and convincing evidence,” on the part of his defense team.
I doubt they can prove that for Trump. Lindell? Possibly. But Trump.was told many times he lost the election. He knew inviting a riot and encouraging his cult to.attack.the Capitol.was wrong and illegals should have known using the “reasonable man measurement”.