What once resembled a wall of legal obstacles that stood between Donald Trump and his return to the White House is now looking like little more than a series of speed bumps.
Prosecutors handling cases from Georgia to Florida to Washington, D.C., are discovering that bringing groundbreaking criminal charges against a former president is a lot easier than getting them to trial.
But, as of now, the wave of prosecutions don’t seem destined to deliver the kind of legal accountability that Trump’s investigators promised — or the devastating political blow to Trump’s presidential prospects that has animated his detractors since the cases were announced with great fanfare over a five-month span last year.
But, as of now, the wave of prosecutions don’t seem destined to deliver the kind of legal accountability that Trump’s investigators promised — or the devastating political blow to Trump’s presidential prospects that has animated his detractors since the cases were announced with great fanfare over a five-month span last year.
That’s because Trump has benefited enormously from a pileup of postponements. After a pair of delays this week in Georgia and Florida, the most likely scenario for 2024 is that the only trial that Trump will face before the election is the ongoing one in Manhattan: the hush money case, which many lawyers view as the least serious of the four, both in terms of the severity of the alleged wrongdoing and the prospect of prison time.
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@LardAlfiePatriot2yrs2Y
We face the dreadful prospect that the election might be decided by the voters. This is, I'm told, bad for democracy.
@ResoluteCrackersVeteran2yrs2Y
False dichotomy, of course. Thinly-veiled, at that.
While that was always going to be the case, for us authentic conservatives... aka, constitution-first types... we figure that if someone is legit accused of breaking big rules, that's on them. Constitution says let jury decide.
@RightistBrianNo Labels2yrs2Y
Anyone who’s been depending on a deus ex machina to save us has been deluding themselves. The ONLY way this gets resolved is at the polls.
The country should be deeply afraid about what Democrats will do next if their Soviet lawfare attempts fail. Democrats and their throne-sniffing media apparatchiks believe they are justified in doing anything to prevent the American people from electing Trump again.
@GuiltyTigerDemocrat2yrs2Y
But Trump has been claiming that the prosecutions have helped his campaign. So won't the lack of cases this year harm his campaign? Or is Trump just a liar. Nevermind. We all know he lies all the time about everything.
@ISIDEWITH2yrs2Y
How would you feel if a political figure you support faced legal issues; would it change your opinion about them?
@9MBM6JYRepublican2yrs2Y
I would watch the new carefully ad not give into corrupt gov practices
Stalinesque lawfare is not a good look from the democrat communist party that spouts “democracy” over and over and over and over.
Accountability is coming. Don’t cry when the tables are turned.
It’s always been up to the voters to make sure he doesn’t get back the presidency.
Nothing would stop Trump running “from jail” or as a,”convicted felon”. His base doesn’t care.
@ISIDEWITH2yrs2Y
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