On Thursday, August 03, 2023 ABC News (and every other news organization in the world) reported that former President Donald J. Trump has been indicted in the special counsel’s investigation into his alleged plot to overthrow the 2020 election. Trump has been charged by Special Counsel Jack Smith with four counts: conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding and conspiracy against rights.
“Despite having lost, the defendant was determined to remain in power. So for more than two months following election day on November 3, 2020, the Defendant spread lies that there had been outcome-determinative fraud in the election and that he had actually won. These claims were false, and the defendant knew that they were false,” the indictment said.
I’m no mathematician, but my count is two years and nearly seven months for the indictment to be filed against Trump since the Insurrection on January 06, 2021. What have those busy bees at the Justice Department been up to during that considerable amount of time for this indictment to be issued? Hm. Let’s see. For one thing they’ve been tallying the actual losses to the buildings and grounds as well as costs to the City of Washington Police as of October 14, 2022: $2,881,360.20 per the 30-month report filed by the US Department of Justice.
This report goes on to say “More than 1,069 defendants have been charged across all 50 states and the District of Columbia… Approximately 561 federal defendants have had their cases adjudicated and received sentences for their criminal activity on Jan. 6. Approximately 335 have been sentenced to periods of incarceration. Approximately 119 defendants have been sentenced to a period of home detention, including approximately 19 who also were sentenced to a period of incarceration.”
And yet, the person who was in my mind the instigator of the coup attempt to overthrow our democracy on January 06, 2021 has been playing golf and allegedly showing classified documents from his presidency to random guests at his estate in Mar-a-lago in Palm Beach, Florida for the past thirty months. The level of difficulty to indict a former president must be mind-boggling while charging social media influencer Kai Cenat with inciting a riot and unlawful assembly in Union Square in New York City on Friday August 4th., just one day after Trump’s arraignment on criminal charges, took fewer than twenty-four hours. Apples to oranges, you say? Most assuredly, but the wheels of justice moved at warp speed against Cenat while similar wheels must have spun out of control for Trump’s criminal behavior to be charged.
I feel a sense of relief for Trump’s day of reckoning, his own judgment day to be on somebody’s calendar somewhere. Big wheel of justice keep on turning, please, but kick it into high gear. This guy is running for re-election in 2024.
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Completely concur with your last paragraph. (Well the whole piece actually.)
And don’t you love the specificity of the details?
$2,881,360.20 – down to the last cent.
Good summation of what many of us are thinking.
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Glad you concur, Josie. And yes, down to the last cent for costs but 30 months without charges for the person responsible. Go figure…literally.
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I still don’t believe the majority of the Capitol Hill rioters were gullible enough to have actually believed Donald Trump was cheated out of an election win. It is possible most of the rioters maintain(ed) that line as an excuse for their attempt to overturn Joe Biden’s (apparently quite) legitimate electoral win — or at least make it as unpleasant as possible, as witnessed on January 6.
The rioters and Trump may have consciously or subconsciously believed he has to remain in office for some perceived greater good (e.g., to ‘save the nation’, etcetera), regardless of Trump’s democratically decided election loss. It may be a case of that potentially very dangerous philosophy: ‘the end justifies the means’. They consciously/subconsciously believe that they have to remain in office for some perceived greater good [chosen by God, to ‘save the nation’, etcetera].
The most frightful example of that philosophical justification is/was the pogrom, the primary implementers of which know they’re committing mass murder yet still genuinely perceive it all as part of an ultimately greater good. Long before the last election day, Trump was saying he may not respect a Biden win, as though preparing his voter base for his inevitable refusal to leave office, whatever the vote-count results may be.
Some people say there was electoral fraud committed — in Trump’s FAVOR, in the 2020 and 2016 presidential elections. Their proof? They simply find it unfathomable that so many Americans had voted for him both times — and especially last November after experiencing his first-term mayhem.
They have no real evidence to back up their claim, except for the fact that Hilary had ‘lost’ in 2016 and Donald garnered 70 million or so votes — results that were impossible unless electoral fraud was committed.
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Thank you so much for stopping by and contributing.
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You’re quite welcome.
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From your lips to God’s ears, my friend.
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Good one, Ann… Terrier Smith is an image I like!! Made me smile about this otherwise sobering nightmare.
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I always imagine him as a Jack Russell Terrier enthusiastically in pursuit of an orange rat. Every terrier I’ve ever had caught the rat eventually. I’m very hopeful this one will as well.
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You and me both, Sister Girl.
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It’s an enormous case touching on all sectors of our government along with foreign actors. These are truly unprecedented charges against a president. A lot of footwork went into this so Jack Smith could move in and indict, indict, indict in a relatively swift way. Even now Trump is setting the stage for more delays. He loves a lawyer who knows how to work the system. There’s no way out of this. He’s trapped. Patience while Terrier Smith works Rat Trump through the tunnel.
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I suspect that is why it took so long. Time the charges to coincide with the campaign for election.
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The river runs both ways on that, though, so we’ll see.
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