I’m sorry. There was a lot to post on yesterday, and I was barely able to make it up to the office at all. I also had some client work to do, and that was really hard: my brain is in no shape to be scanning legal documents for ethics issues.
My friend is here, and yesterday it was just good having someone to talk to. (How Grace and I managed to raise a son as economic with the spoken word as Calvin Coolidge is a topic for the nature-nurture debate. One theory is that he could never get a word in edgewise.)
This is a segment from a larger post languishing on the drafting board. It’s amusing to read Trump-fearing pundits and analysts as they tie themselves in knots to try to avoid admitting that these are all—all of them—politically motivated prosecutions against Trump that would not be happening now if he didn’t threaten the Democrats’ grand plan. They don’t want to admit that they are desperate to see him convicted of something so it can swing enough votes to save Biden, but everything they write and say eventually leaks that obvious motive.
Here’s an example from yesterday. A Politico writer keeps saying “that that the public has a strong interest in a speedy trial, and indeed, a federal statute requires judges to set trial dates that account for “the best interest of the public.” He adds, disingenuously, that “Americans have repeatedly told pollsters — nearly two-thirds of them, including roughly one-third of Republicans — that they want to see a verdict in the case before the election.”
Right. Do the math; it’s not hard. Virtually all Democrats don’t want anyone to have a chance to vote for Trump—that 14th Amndment thingy!” and “information” be damned. It is not hard to understand why. “American voters want information that can — and should — inform their votes for the highest office in the land, and they deserve to get it.” Sure. Who believes any one not biased to the eye-balls won’t have figured out that an all-Democratic prosecution against a hated adversary in front of stacked juries in virtually single-party jurisdictions will yield valuable “information” clearly explained and fairly analyzed, never mind “justice?” More:
The schedule that the court set for Trump’s appeal on the immunity question — with oral argument scheduled for late April — could lead to a potential ruling in June. That would leave relatively little time for a trial before the November election, particularly given the parallel 2024 presidential campaign. Indeed, the conservative justices are arguably engaged in their own form of election interference by potentially slow-walking a relatively straightforward legal proceeding in a way that could ultimately swing this year’s presidential election.
But the whole purpose of this tidal wave of trials isn’t to cripple the Trump campaign and keep him from ejecting Joe Biden from the White House, despite the mere coincidence that they have been all seeded just in time to accomplish that goal. Nah. Of course not. Just another of those conservative conspiracy theories.
Ethics Alarms 
Everything under the sun will be done to keep Trump out of the White House next January. What ever has to be done, will be done; nothing can be ruled out; that’s my speculation on the matter. If Trump is elected in November and is sworn in on January 20, 2025, I’ll be even more surprised than I was in 2016 when he beat Hillary.
Based on observed cultural, societal and political patterns, I see the 2024 election as being a societal and cultural disaster for the United States of America. No matter who is elected, the reactions are going to be bad, and they’re likely to be very bad.
Yes, I’ve seen you make this or similar comments about the upcoming 2024 election and, consequently, it’s a good bet that your are correct.
I think this is relevant.
Do you think they would go as far as assassination?
Open demonization has consequences and it’s as if the left is demonizing Trump so much that they would give permanent martyrdom to a lone wolf Trump assassin.
Steve-O-in-NJ,
Remember there are some leftist activists that have openly stated that it’s “more admirable to kill a racist, homophobic or transphobic speaker than it is to shout them down”; Trump has been tarred as all those things and worse, much much worse!
When it’s a public figure, like the hated demon Trump, that’s constantly being publicly tarred on a national scale from nearly every main stream media outlet as the devil incarnate, white supremacist, Hitler, threat to Democracy, traitor, fascist, Nazi, dictator, insurrectionist, monster, etc, etc then murdering that demon is clearly for the benefit of everyone, therefore the murderer should be commended for ridding the planet of such an evil person. Maybe Biden could award the murderer the Presidential Medal of Freedom for their selfless act.
I’m dead certain that there are some completely propaganda brainwashed, cult-like, partisan, progressive sheeple out there that think like this, the only question I have is, do any of them have the personal conviction and the will to put their morally bankrupt thoughts into action no matter what the consequences are.
All the hate driven propaganda from the left will have consequences.
I agree but once hate is released on the scale of the hate perpetrated toward Trump and his supporters there is no telling who it’s next victim or victims will be. Tables turn and those seeding hatred today will at some time in the future reap the harvest of those seeds. Those believing themselves to be on the right side of history now may live to see they weren’t or worse their descendants will.
One of my former classmates can testify to that. The two of us hated each other and one day he came up to me and out of nowhere punched me so hard in the stomach that I almost fell down gasping for air. He then smirked and said I was lucky he had an even keel or he might have had to really hurt me or kill me. Well, I bided my time, and when the moment was right, I seized him by the head and smashed his head four times against the lockers, leaving him almost unconscious on the floor with a huge bump on the side of his head. I then smirked at him and said he’s lucky that I was feeling merciful or I might have banged his head against the locker until he died.