It's been a long time since I posted. This week's developments deserve a bit of commentary. On Tuesday August 1, 2023 ex-President Trump was indicted by the Justice Department for conspiring and acting to overthrow the election of 2020. Today he is being arraigned at a court in Washington, D.C. on four felony counts in connection with that case.
You're going to see a lot of hocus pocus about whether Trump actually believed he had lost or the election had been stolen from him. That's the defense's main contention. But as Judd Legum says here, https://mail.yahoo.com/d/folders/1/messages/148187?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9hdHQteWFob28uYXR0Lm5ldC8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAC8E84D3ZosLuMXbRb7bPZ8Px-Qjn0UsnGob12q-FAjOeT2XV7X7OobyDu9i3qH-M4iPRlQ5o8YMykD9R3FpjiH6L7DjP1bGiRuK2OoqViZO8uQpUCI1Nb8bOj7CvtjXADh8ubjhGDM_-m4bq-mpGXWqRLnuDztJSflGi-7PYh5_, I feel that's irrelevant. Even if you think you were unfairly treated about something, that does not allow you to commit a crime to try to rectify it. There are legal channels, such as filing a lawsuit, to try to achieve that result. (Trump, by the way, filed 60, and lost them all.) Even if it's a fact he thought he was wronged, the legal remedy is not to establish fraudulent slates of Electors, threaten state election officials and the life of the Vice President, and send a mob to threaten to kill Congress if it doesn't do what you want.
Trump is guilty. He is a monstrous canker on American society and its body politic. He will try to delay and obfuscate the trial to run out the clock, get re-elected, and order his Attorney General to dismiss the case. If he wins, he may even try to pardon himself. This must not be allowed to happen. The case must go forward, and Trump must be defeated again at the polls. The future of our republic and the rule of law itself depend on it.
