Trump’s Oral Arguments In Appellate Court Today May Blow His Colorado Ballot Case Defense Out Of The Water

That was then, this is now   Trump’s apparent legal defense

Being a lying felon full of sh*t used to be so much easier in the days before television, radio, 24 hour news, and live streaming. This becomes an even bigger problem when you tend to publicly changing your mind more often than most people change their socks.

Right now there are two pieces of 3+ year old video that are getting huge play on the cable network news programs right now. The first is Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, speaking from the well of the Senate in the lead up to Trump’s second impeachment. He is arguing against conviction by saying, The important thing to remember is that President Trump hasn’t gotten away with anything, yet. He will be out of office soon. And we still have a criminal justice system in this country, as well as civil litigation. And Trump has no protection from either one once he’s out of office. Translation: Why turn ourselves into political outcasts when a jury can do the dirty work for us later.

The second one is of Trump’s own lawyer, speaking from the well of the Senate in Trump’s defense in his second impeachment trial, If my colleague on the other side is suggesting that the President has some kind of “January exemption” on his actions, I would say this. A “high crime” is still a felony, and a “misdemeanor” is still a misdemeanor, the language hasn’t changed all that much. And the Constitution is explicit on the subject. Trump enjoys no protection from prosecution once he’s out of office. There is no real reason to impeach.

Why are we suddenly being given this reminder of ancient political history? Because today Traitor Tot and his legal hired pop gun went into the DC Circuit Appellate Court to argue to the court that all of those other ass clowns were full of legal sh*t. According to the Pee Wee Herman of criminal defense, the only way that Traitor Tot could be held responsible in a criminal court was if he was impeached by the United States House, and convicted by the US Senate. Other than that, and it’s Y’all outta luck, suckas! And even then there might be loopholes to wriggle through.

This was a complete bastardization of the 1sr clause, which lays out the restrictions that congress can take against a siting President, and completely ignores the clause down the road that explicitly allows both civil as well as criminal litigation against a former President.

Fortunately the three judges treated this entire argument with the scorn it so richly deserved. In fact they took almost devilish delight in coming up with the most extreme scenarios to force this legal piglet to roll around in Trump’s mud.

One judge dubiously asked, So what you’re saying, and I only need a yes or no answer is that, a sitting President can sell pardons, sell secret documents, even order a SEAL team to assassinate a legitimate political opponent, and as long as he resigns before he’s impeached in the House, and convicted in the Senate, then there is no way he can be criminally prosecuted and held responsible?

She never got a yes or no answer. After disjointed, rambling gobbledygook Sauer called qualifying his answer, she finally gave up and said, Then I’ll take that as a NO!. But the point was made, Sauer refused to sell his legal soul and repudiate the Gospel of Trump.

Here’s the funny part. From where El Pendejo Presidente’s point of view, today was an unmitigated grand slam success. He got to sit there, cross his arms, and scowl at the judges, angrily scribble notes to his lawyers on a legal pad in Crayola while the prosecutor was talking, and nod his head like one of those dogs in the back window when his lawyer started talking about His Lowness was leading all of the polls. 

Because this brainless claptrap is the sole schtick that The Scruffy Guru is running on in 2024. His campaign is solely that he always  had absolute immunity when he was President, and the Biden deep state DOJ is now politically persecuting him in order to keep him from returning to the White House because He’s just that f*cking good. His only bummer was that the federal court wouldn’t let him give a klown Kar Circus presser in the building, so he had to motor somewhere else to babble. This day was one of the best political days Trump has had recently.

But here’s the McGuffin. The stupid sh*t is working the wrong refs! The stupid bastard already has those slobbering trolls, and they aren’t going anywhere. And keeping them psyched is critical to them showing up for him, as well as continuing to keep shelling over all of that lovely long green. But the simple problem is that all of this bullsh*t is political.

Because right now The Cheeto Prophet’s only path to long term freedom is to delay as many of these cases until after election day, so that if he is miraculously reelected to the White House, he can make all of this go away. But in order to obtain that goal, and get those precious delays, he still has to make compelling legal arguments in court! And the most compelling thing about today’s arguments was that Trump’s lawyer managed to maintain a straight face throughout his legal flogging.

Today’s Trump legal Kabuki may have cost Hair Twitler what he most wanted, delay. And not just on the issue at hand. His political nonsense today may have just cost him the opportunity to get the delays he wanted for a full appellate court review, as well as a trip to the Supreme Court at a time when he already has a case scheduled there for February 8th, the Colorado ballot case. We’ll take them one at a time.

In this case, Trump already knows he’s going to lose. His hope is to lose, then appeal for another hearing in front of the entire DC Circuit Appellate Court, wasting precious time. If, as expected, the entire circuit appellate court tosses him double barrel birds, only then does he run the clock to the last minute to request a Supreme court hearing. This could waste precious months.

But FrankenTrump is bone stupid, and his legal arguments are bone stupid, and just gave everybody involved a quick and easy out. No circuit appellate court is required to take up a full panel review of a case. And every appellate court has the right to place time restrictions on their ruling. If this three judge panel rules, especially if the ruling is 3-0 against Trump, they can craft a ruling that reads something like, After due deliberation this court finds for the plaintiff. This case will be remanded back to the trial court tor disposition  in 5 days unless the defendant files an appeal to the Supreme Court. The entire panel doesn’t have to take the case, and a truncated appeal date puts Trump behind the 8-ball in terms of the speed of his filing.

And remember this. The Supreme court thrives on conflict. The court seldom hears cases when both the district court and the appellate court are in agreement. Why waste their precious time reaffirming a decision two lower courts have already agreed on. Especially if the appellate ruling is a unanimous 3-0, and Trump appeals, the SCOTUS can come out with a simple statement, The court of appeals has remanded the case back to the lower court for trial. We affirm. And if that happens, then Trump is on a rocket docket track for a mid to late March trial date in DC.

Which leaves the Colorado ballot case, due for oral arguments on February 8th. And Maya Angelou has already sagely said that When they show you who they are, believe them. There’s no way that the justices on the Supreme Court aren’t already fully aware of the ridiculous arguments Traitor Tot presented today, and they can’t have not heard Trump’s autocratic rhetoric on the campaign trail. He is literally telling them who he is.

And he’s the one who literally refers to them as his justices, and has his idiot mouthpiece call out Brett Kavanaugh by name. And it’s not like he has gone out of his way to deny responsibility for the bloody insurrection. He specifically told the traitors to Go to the Capitol and fight like hell, or we won’t have a country left anymore! And when he finally tired of his Bloodsport, he sent them home telling them, You’re all very special, and we love you. Trump doesn’t just accept responsibility for the insurrection, he embraces it.

So, what better way to get this poisonous howler monkey off of your back than to invalidate him from being on the ballot? And they don’t even have to take the political hit, and personal threats by making a national decision. Just like with abortion, they can simply refer the issue back to the states for resolution, since the states run their own elections. As we speak, Michigan, Nevada, and Arizona all have movements to bar Trump from the ballot in November. If they’re legt alone, and successful, then the electoral math makes it alm ost impossible for Trump to be elected. Not the Supreme Court’s problem. The states did it.

No man can serve two masters. Trump foolishly got his ass in a wringer, and now he’s caught between two boulders. Trump is desperately trying to use one boulder to keep him from being crushed by the other boulder. The problem is that in order to do that, he has to get out from between them, which at this point is impossible. Mainly because he personally rolled them into the valley with himself in between. Keep it up boyo, you’re killing it out there!

I thank you for the privilege of your time.