Rudy Giuliani is probably going to go to jail and he knows it. It’s perfectly fitting that President Trump has put him in charge of the post-election litigation efforts. Neither of them have any prospect of avoiding prosecution, so spoiling the jury pools is their real mission. They’re not interested in following some long shot legal strategy based on arguments you can actually present to a judge. They need to make it impossible to find 12 jurors who will convict them.
Spreading disinformation is their best bet in that fight, so that’s the strategy going forward. It actually makes perfect sense. Giuliani will expect a broad, blanket pardon for federal crimes, and Trump may very well pardon himself to prolong any effort to bring him to justice. This won’t shield either of them from state crimes, and it probably won’t hold for Trump on federal crimes either since no man can be the jury in their own case.
Yet, with nearly half the country voting for Trump’s reelection, the odds are not bad that any jury will contain at least one supporter, and Trump and Giuliani can hope that they’ll get a nullification vote against even an open-and-shut slam-dunk case.
This whole spectacle is disgraceful and degrading to the character of our country, but it’s not irrational from a criminal’s point of view.
Well, if that’s their plan, they’ll fu%k it up. The media constantly wants these guys to be brainiacs with all sorts of brilliant schemes, instead they are a couple of over the hill, STD addled drug addicts. If they had a plan, they never followed it.
God, that press conference next to the adult store was the icing on the four year cake. The story just got better and better. I laughed my a$$ off for a whole day.
“But what is life, but to make sport of our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn”. Mr. Bennet
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Ever the con man, Conald is causing confusion and distress in any way he can think up. In the hope that he can swing a keep out of jail deal on the federal level, by swinging a pardon from wherever he can get one. And on the state level by hoping to buffalo state AG’s into believing that he’s just too much trouble to prosecute. A complex game in which the victim becomes a bully. Many people are bamboozled by this and give up trying toi figure it out, and just choose to believe whatever the showman says.
Doesn’t Mary Trump say something like DJT has so many psych issues it is impossible to identify them all, much less treat him? On the one hand, he’s always acting from the intuitive gut, moment to moment. At the same, his behavior is consistent and he’s got detailed plans to cheat and lie his way through absolutely every event in his life, as he has done for his entire life.
And therein lies the problem. Trump has no problem telling lies to satisfy himself and his base. That he tells them lies only creates an alternate reality for them and one that is repeated by right wing media. He and his base are continuing to suggest the election was stolen. Makes no difference Biden got more votes. The wrong person won. That is the reality. That is what he said this morning. Biden won but I am not conceding. Hooray. What happens in the end game? Brian Stelter on CNN had this sort of conversation this morning.
He won’t be able to argue his way out of fraudulent tax returns or to hide them much longer. So somebody just might nail his ass there. I can hope anyway, this level of criminality over four years requires some pay back.