Showing posts with label The Post Insurrection. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Post Insurrection. Show all posts
Thursday, January 4, 2024
Thursday, December 28, 2023
The Post Insurrection. Part VII. The Insurrectionist.
August 3, 2023
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
Fourteenth Amendment, Section 3.
Called for a Federal takeover?
The defendant will have some sort of initial appearance in court today on the latest charges.
August 15, 2023
Trump Indicted In Georgia
Make no mistake about it, this Georgia indictment is far more serious trouble for Trump than anything that came before it.
He will be convicted.
He cannot pardon himself (he can't anyway, but he'd try) for State crimes.
It's likely that he's going to go to prison. If convicted, he will be ineligible to serve as President. It will spark a Constitutional crisis, as he's already shown that he'll try to disregard the Constitution and his followers will as well.
It will go, in that scenario, if he were to be elected, to the Supreme Court.
The Court will rule him ineligible. It will have to, in part because he will be, and in part because if it does not, it will destroy the Court.
A normal person, including a normal politician, wouldn't put the country through this.
August 16, 2023
But Trump, as we know, is not normal.
One thing I'm glad to see about the Georgia indictment is lawyers included in it. As a lawyer, the entire Trump episode has really drug the profession into the mud, if I'm to put it politely, and that includes the lawyers currently defending him.
Everyone has a right to a defense, but that doesn't justify a lawyer taking any defense. Right now, Trump would be best served by lawyers who were telling him to negotiate, not defend, and so would the nation. Instead, he'll fight it out and the lawyers who are providing him with a defense will go home with a tidy sum, probably, fate the nation irrespective.
That this earlier collection may serve time is a good thing.
August 23, 2023
Another weird blathering from the former President.
August 23, 2023
John Eastman, who traded his role as a law professor to being an advisor with a crackpot legal theory in Trump's effort to subvert the vote, surrendered to Fulton County authorities.
It's interesting in that he cited the right of attorneys to advise their clients as a defense. Attorneys do not have a right to advise their clients, but not with made up crap that justifies anything.
But that's exactly what attorneys in the US have been doing in some instances for years, and with impunity. If nothing else comes out of this, that this may have reached its limit is at least a good thing.
August 25, 2023
Booked in.
September 1, 2023
John Eastman and Rudy Giuliani are complaining about being indicted for giving legal advice.
Frankly, it's about time that lawyers giving batshit crazy legal advice bore some penalty for it, no matter how polished the crap may be.
Trump's trial in Georgia will be livestreamed, which I feel to be a mistake, quite frankly.
September 6, 2023
Trump has been found liable in the E. Jean Carroll defamation case, so when it proceeds to trial on January 15, the only issue will be damages.
September 9, 2023
DA Wills replied to Representative Jim Jordan, giving him a dope slap.
This is thick with irony. Not only has Willis basically told Jordan he's a butt sitting ignoramus, but Jordan's actions flew in the face of a favored populist idea that states have supremacy over the Federal Government. Willis actually exercised an example of where the states are in fact supreme, state criminal charges.
It has also been learned that the grand jury wished to bring in broader referrals than actually resulted in charges, including one against Lindsey Graham. I tend to agree with the prosecutor's choice to limit the number of accused to what was done, but that should be a warning signal to Trump et al. The Grand Jury was obviously irate, and the criminal jury is likely to be as well.
October 5, 2023
Mike Lindell, the "my pillow" guy who became a fanatic Trump backer, is seeing his lawyers attempt to withdraw from representation in defamation suits against him for non-payment.
All lawyers are mercenaries, something clients are oddly inclined to forget.
October 20, 2023
Sidney Powell, lawyer who supported Trump in crackpot election theories, plead guilty to six misdemeanors in Georgia, thereby avoiding trial.
It's likely that part of the deal that lead to this means she'll now turn on her former political champion, who will in turn be dissing her with nicknames soon.
In a court hearing yesterday, one of Trump's lawyers more or less called the court's judicial law clerk stupid, which was a very stupid thing to do. The court ordered an apology.
October 24, 2023
Jenna Ellis has now plead guilty, expressed remorse for having become tied up in the matter, spoke unkindly of Rudy Giuliani.
Where are all those people who were claiming the prosecutor made a strategic error in this matter?
November 14, 2023
While it will make no difference to his followers, former Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis' proffer to Georgia prosecutors has been released. In it, she states that Trump official Dan Scavino told her that Trump would refuse to leave the White House despite losing the election. There was apparently more damaging information, but it was not released.
This came before the assault on the capitol.
Ellis recounted the exchange coming when she apologized for the lack of success in the absurd post election litigation, something that was never going to work In reply to this Ellis recounted:
"And he said to me, in a kind of excited tone, 'Well, we don't care, and we're not going to leave, And I said, 'What do you mean?' And he said 'Well, the boss', meaning President Trump -- and everyone understood 'the boss,' that's what we all called him -- he said, 'The boss is not going to leave under any circumstances. We are just going to stay in power. And I said to him, 'Well, it doesn't quite work that way, you realize?' and he said, 'We don't care.'"
This should really lead to sedition charges against Trump, which have never been filed, in part due to the absurdly slow pace that American justice currently works at. The fact that hasn't occured is putting Trump in a position to imperil American democracy again. Should he live through a four-year term, should he be elected to the discredit of the country, it's not impossible to imagine him refusing to leave office. My guess is that there certainly will be an effort to repeal the Constitutional amendment limiting Presidents to two terms.
November 22, 2023
While I failed to post it at the time, the Court in Colorado found Trump to be an insurrectionist, but then bizarrely found he could remain on the ballot.
Of interest, laymen seem to find this ruling confusing, but it isn't. His being found to be an insurrectionist was likely a relatively easy call, given the mountains of evidence as to what occured on January 6 and thereafter. Sooner or later, the glacially slow process will result, I suspect in his being charged with being a seditionist, and he'll be likely to be convicted. The real question is whether that will occur in 2024, or 2029.
Anyhow, the part that's a big aggravating is the court's leaving him on the ballot, but then Colorado's judges stand for retention and this was somewhat of a safe way out of this for the Judge. Her ruling was massive, and I've linked it in elsewhere, but it shouldn't be too difficult to find for those wishing to. I've linked it in the following quote:
Regarding efforts to keep Trump off the ballot, the trial court in Colorado found that Trump did engage in insurrection, but that the office of the President was not included in "officers of the United States" to which the Fourteenth Amendment applies.
A better ruling, however, would have been that he was ineligible to be on the ballot. Some excellent commentary for that is available here.
Now Trump's legal team is trying to certify the question of his having been an insurrectionist to the U.S. Supreme Court. My suspicion is the Court won't take it. If it does, this will prove to be a massive legal mistake, as my guess is that the Supreme Court would uphold the Colorado ruling. Trump's team, however, must be worried that other courts will give the ruling full faith and credit.
Also, in an effort to have a gag order lifted, Trump found himself faced with a Federal tour de force on what they intend to show at his Federal trial. They intend to maintain that he was an agent in a conspiracy giving rise to the insurrection.
These two things together are really monumental, quite frankly. The Federal Government intends to show that Trump was a seditious insurrectionist. The Colorado trial level judge has already said he was an insurrectionist. He's now taking this latter matter to the U.S. Supreme Court. . . if they allow the certification, which they likely will not, in an effort to hold that ruling off.
If the U.S. Supreme Court upholds the Colorado ruling, it may have the effect of amounting to res judicata on that issue, disqualifying him from the Presidency, and basically getting to a conviction, almost, in Federal Court before he's even tried there.
November 23, 2023
The Colorado Supreme Court is taking up the issue of the 14th Amendment in an appeal from the district court.
My prediction here is that it will adopt the district court's finding that Trump is an insurrectionist, but remand for an order depriving him of a position on Colorado's ballot.
This holding, should it come first, will then be used as a persuasive argument, or even on a full faith and credit basis, in other states.
December 1, 2023
The court in New York reimposed a gag order after a series of harassing Trump statements about the Court and its personnel.
December 7, 2023
The Colorado Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the Colorado 14th Amendment case yesterday.
December 9, 2023
One I managed to miss earlier this week, Wyoming Secretary of State Chuck Gray, Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft and Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose filed amicus briefs in the Colorado suit.
December 11, 2023
Trump will not be testifying at his civil fraud trial today, no doubt because his lawyer want him to shut up.
December 24 2023
The Colorado Supreme Court upheld the lower court's decision that Trump is guilty of insurrection, but remanded the court's decision that he wasn't subject to the 14th Amendment. He is therefore barred from Colorado's ballot.
The Republican Party of Colorado has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court for review. Trump indicates he intends to do the same.
That will prove to be a massive, campaign ending, error, should the Supreme Court take the matter up.
The Michigan Supreme Court rejected a 14th Amendment claim against Trump, holding he can remain on the ballot there.
cont:
Colorado Supreme Court Ruling in Anderson v. Griswold Appealed to U.S. Supreme Court
Denver, December 28, 2023 - The Colorado Republican Party has appealed the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision in Anderson v. Griswold to the U.S. Supreme Court. With the appeal filed, Donald Trump will be included as a candidate on Colorado’s 2024 Presidential Primary Ballot when certification occurs on January 5, 2024, unless the U.S. Supreme Court declines to take the case or otherwise affirms the Colorado Supreme Court ruling.
Secretary of State Griswold has commented: “Donald Trump engaged in insurrection and was disqualified under the Constitution from the Colorado Ballot. The Colorado Supreme Court got it right. This decision is now being appealed. I urge the U.S. Supreme Court to act quickly given the upcoming presidential primary election.”
On December 19, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled Donald Trump is ineligible to appear on the Colorado 2024 Presidential Primary Ballot due to the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The Colorado Supreme Court simultaneously stayed that ruling until January 4, with that stay remaining in place in the event of an appeal.
Key Upcoming Dates:
- January 5: Deadline for Secretary of State Griswold to certify the names and party affiliations of candidates on the 2024 Presidential Primary Ballot.
- January 5: U.S. Supreme Court conference day
- January 20: Deadline for 2024 Presidential Primary Ballots to be sent to military and overseas voters.
- February 12: First day 2024 Presidential Primary Ballots can be mailed to active registered voters.
- February 26: First day of in-person voting for the 2024 President Primary.
- March 5: Colorado 2024 Presidential Primary Day, polls close at 7:00 PM Mountain Time.
Frankly, the decision above by the Colorado Secretary of State, unless there's more to it that I don't know, is flat out wrong. Her court has decided that Trump is unqualified. An appeal doesn't matter without an order from the appellate court staying the decision.
She's wrong.
Maine won't be the last state to decide in this fashion, and now there's a split set of decisions. The Supreme Court will have to intervene.
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The Post Insurrection. Part V. Wyoming politicians react to the Trump Indictment and pour another heartly glass of Trump flvored Kool Aid for the voters.
Thursday, August 31, 2023
Thursday, August 17, 2023
Blog Mirror: The Sweep and Force of Section Three
This is gaining traction and needs to be taken seriously.
The Sweep and Force of Section Three
126 Pages Posted: 14 Aug 2023
Keywords: Constitution, Fourteenth Amendment, Section Three, Insurrection, Rebellion
This will end up being litigated. Frankly, with the current Supreme Court, I'd expect a 6 to 3 decision in favor of this view.
The authors are conservative law professors and members of The Federalist Society.
Thursday, August 3, 2023
The Post Insurrection. Part V. Wyoming politicians react to the Trump Indictment and pour another heartly glass of Trump flvored Kool Aid for the voters.
Sigh. . .
The question really is, how many of these figures believe what they're saying. My guess is that Lummis and Barrasso almost certainly do not. Gray has probably convinced himself of their truth, as otherwise his angry rise would itself be a species of falsehood.
Sadly, a lot of Wyomingites, hearing just what they want to hear, will endorse the statements of their politicians, whom of course depend on those votes to keep them in their jobs.
Go ahead . . . have another glass of the orange Kool-Aid.
Last Prior Edition:
The Post Insurrection. The Defendant. Part VI
Wednesday, August 2, 2023
The Post Insurrection. The Defendant. Part VI
April 6, 2023
This story certainly has taken an odd turn, with Donald Trump being indicted for payments to try to silence two bare it all women.
Worst money ever spent, it would appear.
Additional indictments are likely coming, and prosecutions for campaign violations are frankly very rare. It's an open question whether this is a good development or a bad one for those who regard Trump as a real danger, or those who admire him. From my prospective, these charges are the most likely to be regarded as political, and it likely would have been best for the country if they had not been brought, for that reason.
As for the coming probable more substantial charges, they can't come soon enough.
April 19, 2023
$787,000,000.
That's the amount Fox News agreed to pay Dominion in settlement for spreading lies about Dominion's voting machines.
I guess the press was concerned that the Supreme Court might dump the New York Times v. Sullivan standard when the case got there, which it would have. At least two conservative judges and one liberal one had previously indicated that they might. Too bad it didn't make it all the way up.
April 21, 2023
The Wyoming County Clerks Association issued a lengthy letter defending Wyoming's elections prior to Secretary of State Chuck Gray's meeting with touring election denier Douglas Frank.
April 25, 2023
Propagandist Tucker Carlson has been fired from Fox, but not for spouting Trumpist lies and pro Russian propaganda, but for criticizing the leaders at Fox News behind their backs.
Modern medial being what it is, Carlson will undoubtedly land on his feet, but this does amount to a blow which will reduce Carlson's exposure. Fox has really taken a beating over this past week.
And CNN let Don Lemon, news anchor, go, although the reasons are murky. Lemon had made the comment that Nikki Hailey "wasn't in her prime". The reasons, however, for his termination are less clear.
Carlson has a group of loyal followers and a large pool of angry detractors as well. His most loyal followers will follow him wherever he goes, but it won't be Fox's bullhorn. Prior Fox figures who have left it have in fact seen their star very much fade, and while Carlson won't disappear, he'll be very much less visible, and for that matter, probably to most Americans soon invisible.
April 26, 2023
A defamation case in which the plaintiff asserts that Donald Trump raped her has commenced with explosive testimony, including something alluding to DNA, which Trump commented on via Truth Social. This resulted in a really strong rebuke from the Court ordering Trump to shut up as he was violating a prior order of the Court.
June 11, 2023
As we all know, Trump was found liable for defamation, but not sexual assault. I failed to note that when it occurred.
Now he faces 37 counts in a Federal indictment, which includes violating the Espionage Act for taking classified material and refusing to return it.
All three of Wyoming's Congressional delegation have questioned the indictment, which was predictable, if sad.
June 13, 2023
Trump will appear in Federal Court in Florida today.
The indictment is so clear that it's almost impossible for this not to result in a conviction, making the feigned outrage expressed by Republican politicians, and the genuine outrage expressed by GOP loyalists, all the more questionable. Trump will be convicted.
The big question, right now, which is largely not asked by the press, is why Trump took these documents. There's some reason he did it. And as some are in the super secret national defense category, the question is all the more baffling and important.
If it is that he was going to use them for his memoirs, it conclusively shows that he simply doesn't grasp the importance of things. How a person could live to his advanced old age and not grasp this is hard to imagine, but it would suggest the operation of at least the insulation of privilege, and also perhaps something else mental or in the serious character flaw category.
But it might suggest something more than that, which is all the more disturbing. Why would a former President walk out the door with matters pertaining to national defense?
There have always been a lot of unanswered questions in this area regarding Trump. Perhaps his trial will reveal them.
June 21, 2023
Trump's trial is scheduled for August, but it won't really occur anywhere near that soon.
June 28, 2023
Donald Trump has now sued E. Jean Carroll for defamation, alleging she falsely accused him of rape after a jury in a civil trial found that he sexually abused her. The suit will fail. In fact, it'll give her the chance to reiterate her claims.
In his espionage act case, he called the audio recordings of him discussing defense plans a hoax. They're not a hoax, but his most devoted followers will adopt this absurdity.
These two moves are really odd, and smack of desperation.
June 30, 2023
A judge refused to dismiss the first of E. Jean Carroll's lawsuits against Trump, this one also for defamation. I wasn't aware until now that there were two, but there are, and the second one goes to trial in January.
July 11, 2023
Trump is seeking a lengthy delay of his espionage act case, citing in part the election as a grounds for the same.
July 15, 2023
Well into the 2024 election cycle, unfortunately, politicians who have lashed themselves to the deck of the Stolen Election Myth are in the increasingly awkward position of having it pass over the horizon. Individuals who are convinced that the election was stolen are capped in number, while also incapable of considering any other evidence at this point. Politicians, whose issue was this issue, need to keep it alive, or think they do, even though it appears to be of fixed political capital.
Enter Hunter Biden, the troubled son of President Biden, whom the general public cares next to nothing about. The Right Wing has been harping on him ever since Hillary Clinton quit being interesting, more or less, and is now flogging the story.
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Six state Secretary of States in the stolen election camp have signed onto a letter in which they express concern with U.S. Secretary of State Blinken's role as a member of Biden's campaign. They have stated in their letter: “To cast informed ballots, Americans need transparency into actions by former, and perhaps current, federal government officials to weaponize false information for political purposes,” and “Congress should hold perpetrators accountable and consider all available corrective measures to provide transparency to the public of any improper actions set forth in the report."
They go on to reference the tired Hunter Biden laptop story.
The irony here is that the "weaponizations of false information" is Donald Trump's entire post insurrection modus operendi, and he was working towards stealing the election himself prior to it taking place. The destruction of the U.S. Post Office seems to have been part of the effort, from which it has not recovered. So yes, there should be accountability, including criminal accountability where appropriate, but that's not exactly going to lock any 2020 Democratic operatives up . . . .
Wyoming's Secretary of State is one of the signatories.
With the office holders from the last election having been put in office, and having ridden this in some cases into office, the gold on this currency seems to have tarnished into brass. We can predict we'll keep hearing the stolen election mantra, but it doesn't have the shine it used to. The public may actually have moved in significantly.
July 18, 2023
From the NYT:
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Trump Says He’s a Target in the Special Counsel’s Investigation Into Jan. 6
It would be the second time the special counsel has notified former President Trump that he is likely to face indictment, this time in connection with the criminal investigation into the events leading up to the Capitol attack.
July 18, cont.
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel filed charges against 16 people who signed paperwork falsely claiming that President Donald Trump had won the 2020 election as part of an effort to overturn the election results.
While individual January 6 Insurrectionist have gone on trial and been convicted, these are the first charges of these type and this, combined with Trump being a target of the Special Counsel's investigation, is a turning point in this story. My prediction, which is probably contrary to what most might suspect, is that this is really the beginning of the end for Trump. From here on out, denial of his association in an effort to subvert democracy will become increasingly more difficult for even diehard populists to deny, and denying the result of the 2020 election will become politically risky.
July 21, 2023
Donald Trump's trial under the Espionage Act is now scheduled for May 2024.
July 28, 2023
A revised indictment ads new charges against President Trump and adds a new defendant.
August 2, 2023
Trump indicted for the insurrection and surrounding activities:
Last prior edition:
The Post Insurrection. Unfit for any office. Part V.
Thursday, June 15, 2023
Disparity
It's worth noting that the world's oldest democracy, the United Kingdom, saw its Prime Minister fall for having a party in violation of COVID rules, and then see him resign from Parliament for lying about it, while the United States is in serious danger of reelecting a President who attempted to overthrow an election.
Saturday, June 10, 2023
Two Observations
1. The same political party that found that breaking into an opponents' headquarters for political advantage was beyond the pale, and impeachable, now holds, to a large degree, that prosecuting a former President is an act of political terrorism.
Richard Nixon must be spinning in his grave.
History will find the GOP, and in particular those candidates who cannot bring themselves to condemn Trump for his actions, cowardly and trace this moment as the one at which the demise of the GOP became fixed.
2. Ukraine is going to lose a lot of armor in its offensive.
Everyone loses a lot of armor in armored offensives. That, in and of itself, doesn't mean they're fighting poorly or that the armor is bad.
Tuesday, April 4, 2023
The Post Insurrection. Unfit for any office. Part V.
Trump and Mark Meadows.
December 20, 1922
Lex Anteinternet: The Post Insurrection. Falling chips. Part IV.: December 19, 2022The January 6 committee has referred Donald Trump to the U.S. Attorney General on charges of obstruction of an official proceeding, conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to make a false statement and inciting, assisting or providing aid and comfort to an insurrection. It has also referred Kevin McCarthy, Jim Jordan, Scott Perry and Andy Biggs to the ethics committee for failure to honor a subpoena to the committee.
The committee has completed its work and issues its report.
The U.S. Attorney General is unlikely to specifically act on the committee's referral, as it is conducting its own investigation.
The committee's report declared Donald Trump "unfit for any office". Truly, he is unfit for any office and was unfit to occupy his last office, at least after the November election.
In addition to those noted above, Trump lawyer John Eastman was included in the referral on two of the charges.
As noted, I feel it's unlikely that the Attorney General will act on the referred charges, which does not mean that it will not independently charge Trump. Given the current pace of US justice, that risks being so slow as to being meaningless. It'll happen, but my guess is that it will actually occur in late 2023 or in 2024.
For that reason, the Committee's findings and referral are significant.
The committee's work was significant, even though it has been generally discounted by Republicans and wholly discounted by Trump loyalist. Wyoming's GOP, which has some figures who were at the insurrection, has actually bellied up to the bar and had repeated shots of the Kool-Aid. Wyoming has set itself on the path of conservatives who are destroying conservatism through their obstinate insistence on being tied to Trump, who ironically may not really be a conservative at all.
Nonetheless, nationally, it appears the bloom may finally be off the rose. After Trump's third (or fourth, depending upon how you read it) election defeat for the GOP, Republicans have been pulling away. It'll be interesting to see if they manage the break. Kevin McCarthy, who briefly broke away from Trump immediately after the election before running back into his embrace, is in real trouble in his bid for Speaker of the House and might not make it. He's been referred for charges, and he just received a Trump endorsement for the position, something aimed at Trumpites in the House who may no longer really listen all that much to Trump either, the Führerprinzip having now exceeded even Trump.
The message there is that even as Trump has crashed into the GOP and caused it to burn down in a recent election, the House, for two terms threatens to lurch to the right, thereby pouring gasoline on the fire the Trump flame out has caused.
Mirroring that, Rona McDaniel, head of the Republican National Committee, is facing opposition from Trumpites and may lose her seat to even more hardcore populist Republicans, thereby virtually guaranteeing a 2024 electoral disaster for the party.
On an illuminating personal note, as I am generally usually (if not wholly relably) conservative myself, I was recently included in an email chain of a set of highly educated conservatives regarding an article by a conservative columnist who was writing that Trump, while in the author's view having been a really good President, was destroying his legacy. He clearly is doing that, which is no surprise in these quarters. What was a surprise was the reaction of some of "why are the Democrats so fixated on Trump?"
That was an illumination.
May on the Republican right truly believe that the reason that Trump remains in the news is that the Democrats and a Democratic press are focused on him as they have nothing to offer themselves. They are flat out wrong.
Like it or not, the GOP is a minority party and, through its current adherence to Trump, is likely to make itself a very tiny one. Elections right now are decided by independents who disdain Trump and who lean towards the Democrats for the most part. Trump remains in the news as Trump insists on being the leader of the party, and he makes himself rather difficult to ignore.
Witness, he's running for the Oval Office again, as somebody who tried to steal the election, and he resorts to such drivel as this:
Why are Democrats fixated on Trump? Because large numbers of Republicans won't recognize that the man threatened to end American democracy and failed to do so only because a few stood in his way. He's lied about the result of the election and, moreover, while President, we now know, was so internally unstable that no matter what a person thinks of his implemented policies, to a significant degree it was only the restraint that his employees showed that kept some truly scary things from potentially happening.
Democrats are fixated on Trump because the Republicans are. He commands a significantly loyal based that worships him in the mold of men on horseback.
Want to restore conservative election hopes, and move past Trump? Republicans can do that by openly moving past Trump themselves.
March 19, 2023
Donald Trump, the subject of a New York state grand jury, has announced he expects to be arrested Tuesday. He additionally posted:
PROTEST, TAKE OUR NATION BACK!IT'S TIME!!!WE JUST CAN'T ALLOW THIS ANYMORE, THEY'RE KILLING OUR NATION AS WE SIT BACK & WATCH. WE MUST SAVE AMERICA!PROTEST, PROTEST, PROTEST!!!
Given what occurred last time he called for action, it's reasonable to regard this as an incitement to insurrection.
March 20, 2023
Secretary of State Buchanan, in order to counter claims that the election was tainted, published a set of facts on the Secretary of State's website demonstrating that it wasn't. When he abandoned his post for the judiciary, the Interim Secretary of State left it up.
The new Secretary of State, Chuck Gray, who campaigned on "election integrity", is now in office and its gone. Of course, by "election integrity" he meant the fable he campaigned on, that there was something amiss with the 2020 election.
March 30, 2023
Frank Eathorne, head of the state GOP and an individual who has taken the party deep into populist GOP territory, is running for an unprecedented third term as head of the party.
Repeatedly failed far right GOP candidate Rex Rammell is suing the Sublette County Sheriff's Office for its actions searching his horses for brand inspection. That inspection resulted in his being cited and convicted in a jury trial.
An early prediction on this is that Rammell is going to lose this suit.
March 31, 2023
A New York Grand jury has indicted Donald Trump in connection with the hush money he paid to pornographic actress Stephanie Clifford, "stage" name Stormy Daniels, which as an aside might be noted as the least effective hush money of all time.
That apparently isn't the actual crime, and while asking for hush money probably is, paying it very well might not be. This is apparently connected with something else in the nature of being a campaign violation due to the way the money was handled.
There is, it might be noted, a second film femme fatale, in the form of a Playboy model, Karen McDougal, who also received hush money which might be part of this or which might end up in a separate charge.
My prediction is that this is only the first of what will be several indictments, and this may prove to be an unfortunate one. Prosecutions for campaign violations are rare, and New York's legal system can be accused of having taken on prosecutions for political reasons in recent years.
Wyoming Congressman Hageman decried the prosecution as a "witch hunt", which brings about the embarrassing flip side of this. Trump is personally icky, and his payoffs in this area expressed a fear that Americans still had some sense of shame, which proved to be an inaccurate fear. They should. The party that generally associates itself with "family" and values is now really cosied up with a guy who had at least two affairs with women who had prostituted their image for cash, something that in any prior era would have been the end of his political fortunes. Granted, he apparently denies the affairs.
April 4, 2023
Donald Trump was indicted by the State of New York. He plead "not guilty"
And so we conclude this installment.
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