Jack Hassard, a retired science educator, has watched Donald Trump’s actions closely and even written a book called THE TRUMP FILES.
Hassard, Jack. The Trump Files: An Account of the Trump Administration’s Effect on American Democracy, Human Rights, Science and Public Health (p. 65). Northington-Hearn Publishing LLC. Kindle Edition.
In this post, he links to an in-depth study by scholars at the Brookings Institution, who examine Trump’s efforts to overturn the Georgia election results.
Hassard prints an excerpt from the Brookings report:
The researchers who wrote the Brookings report of the Fulton County Investigation of Trump’s election interference conclude:
We conclude that Trump’s post-election conduct in Georgia leaves him at substantial risk of possible state charges predicated on multiple crimes. These charges potentially include: criminal solicitation to commit election fraud; intentional interference with performance of election duties; conspiracy to commit election fraud; criminal solicitation; and state Racketeer Influenced and
Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act violations.
Please open the link and read the rest.
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We’ve got him this time!
And may that dumpster have many sleepless nights.
Gotta love sarcasm, eh!
He missed his calling.
He should have been a rock singer.
Or maybe just a rock.
A rock in Iraq.
Finally it makes sense.
I think a lot of other wealthy frauds and cons (fortunes built on white collar crime) are watching what happens to Traitor Trump. If the traitor’s crime family empire doesn’t vanish and he doesn’t go to prison, many of those wealthy frauds will see that as a get-out-of-jail card for the richest 1% and also encourage others to join in to increase their wealth and power.
I’ll believe it when I actually see criminal charges against Trump actually filed.
When Trump’s Indicted
When charge is filed
The pigs will fly
And river Nile
Will whither dry
When Trump is tried
The cows will sing
And outinside
Will be a thing
When Trump is sent
To serve some time
The space-time rent
Will be the sign
If I committed armed robbery and got caught, could I avoid prosecution in perpetuity by declaring I was running for president?
Yes, but only if you have been President (or played one on TV)
or pretended to fire people on TV…
Or actually fired people on Twitter.
What kind of coward does that anyway?
Fires people!e on Twitter.
Again, I’ll believe it when I see it. The media has been saying this for how long now?
I’ll see it when I believe it,, which means “never”.
Can I hear an “amen” up in here?
Trump has been at risk of criminal charges since the day he was born — and maybe before.
So p, what was the point?
Trump will just deny, deny, deny, obfuscate and use his army of lawyers to delay, delay and delay some more.
Even Chris Christie has dumped on Trump and come out strongly against him running in 2024. CC said there are better alternatives? Really, what would that be, Satan? I think the far right Q-anon loonies in Congress still support Trump? Like Greene & Gosar?
I really resent being compared to this lowlife. He has no decency, no principles whatsoever.
–Satan
No comment, except to say that names can’t be copyrighted, so na na na na na.
–DeSatan
DSatanist would definitely not be better.
I am beyond the point of getting excited about “at risk.” Come see me when charges are filed and a trial begins. There’s still a chance that they will do the Garland-esque thing and kick the can down the road to an uncertain fate and prolonged process in order to pass the buck of responsibility. The more people get excited and happy about rhetoric, the less I think we’ll ever see corrective actions. Time is running out. It’s run out in the House of Representatives.
Meant as response to retired teacher above.
The Teflon Don. He has just enough Russian kompromat on just the right people to ensure that nothing will ever happen to him, or so it seems.
Gotta love the use of two tired clichés in one sentence. Like getting two flies with one swat.
Greg-
While J D Vance found few events to attend while on the Senate campaign trail, he’s been seen and heard from at a conservative conference of Ohio’s Franciscan University of Steubenville, “a center for U.S. right wing Catholic thought.”
Kathryn Joyce of Salon has an article posted at Raw Story
(“Inside the GOP Civil War…” 11-21-2022). She details many important connections. For example, she quotes the opinion of Pat Buchanan (credited with popularizing the term “culture war”) about Franco. He was a Catholic savior, soldier-patriot. Buchanan’s father was a legendary Franco fan. Joyce identifies the recently-appointed president of Koch’s Heritage Foundation as a self-described Catholic populist.
Joyce’s article makes clear a right wing goal, the re-founding of America as a Catholic “confessional state” where state power is subordinate to the Church.
I deduce that Joyce is smart enough to know the real threat from the right is conservative Catholic authoritarianism. The popularized, evangelical protestant as a singular boogey man, is a ruse narrative.
The teachers in Atlanta who got RICO convictions for the testing fraud faced significant jail time (I personally considered this a profound miscarriage of justice particularly since the Superintendent got off). I’m really tired of our justice organizations bending over backward for this guy.
Amen to that. I thank Diane and the readers of this blog for educating those of us around the country about this horrible story.
It’s actually not far-fetched to think so done has something on the folks who are doing the bending.
There is really no other explanation that makes sense.
Someone
Paul, those teachers were among “the little people.” Of course they faced significant jail time. THE rule of law in the U.S.
All the idiot Jill and Joe Trumpanzees from Jan 6th have received swift justice. Trump has received Just Us.
I think the new special counsel should appoint some special investigators to go on a special trip to Bali to do some special investigation of their special mugs in special hotel room mirrors. This should be far enough away from Trump for them to avoid turning up anything remotely related to a possible indictment.
I’m writing a novel. The main character is a cad. He says, at various points in it,
I could take hundreds of classified documents to my beach club, and nothing would happen to me.
I could require a quid pro quo to hurt my political opponent from a foreign head of state, and nothing would happen to me.
I could drag my feet and pretend that a virulent pandemic is a hoax while hundreds of thousands of people die, and nothing would happen to me.
I could tell the American people that I started with a small loan from my father when it was actually almost half a billion dollars, and nothing would happen to me.
I could turn over classified information to top Russian officials, and nothing would happen to me.
I could try to overturn an election by bringing fake law cases before the court I put in place and having them turn the election over to state legislators, and nothing would happen to me.
I could organize people to set up slates of fake electors in order to fix an election, and nothing would happen to me.
I could call on people to march on the Capitol to disrupt the official proceeding to certify the election, and nothing would happen to me.
I could rape a woman in a department store changing room, and nothing would happen to me.
I could brag on tape about how I grab women by the genitalia, and nothing would happen to me.
I could start a fake charity and steal money from it, and nothing would happen to me.
I could start a fake university and use it to steal money from ordinary folks, and nothing would happen to me.
I could claim to have build a wall between the US and Mexico when I built about three miles worth, and nothing would happen to me.
I could hold superspreader events during a virulent pandemic, and nothing would happen to me.
I could unilaterally withdraw US troops from Syria, without consulting my senior military leaders, leaving the place to Russia and Assad and so abandon our allies, the Kurds, and nothing would happen to me.
I could spend my life being a playboy and having relations with porn stars and Playboy bunnies and then appoint “justices” to an Extreme Court to take away from women the rights to control over their own bodies, and nothing would happen to me.
I could operate an apartment complex and scrawl a C at the top of loan applications from black people so as to prevent them from living there, and nothing much would happen to me.
I could walk in on young contestants in a beauty contest while they are changing, and nothing would happen to me.
And so on.
OK. I know. A little over the top. Too horrific?
I could praise as patriots people who storm a state capitol with military style weapons.
main character is a car.
But presumably not a hanging car or pregnant car.
Cad
Autocorrect thinks cars can be pregnant and hanging.
Early in Trump’s term, as we were being introduced to his gang of characters, it struck me that Trump and the people around him were straight out of a Marvel comic book. They act and look just like the villains I used to see in Batman, presenting our country as a dark Gotham City. Future movies on Trump won’t have to be based on real events but word for word facsimiles. The audiences won’t believe it.
Exactly. Comic book villains. Well observed, Paul!
Trump is the Joker and Giuliani is the Penguin.
Roger Stone is the Riddler and Bannon King Tut
The other apt description that presented itself early on was the Trump Clown Car Posse.
Where is Trump NOT at risk of criminal charges?
That would be a much shorter list.
My guess is the empty set.
How much money or political influence does it take to buy the American Get Out of Jail Free Card? Can you get one on Ebay?
I think Amazon sells them but if will cost you a couple billion.
No problem, SomeDAM, like Trump’s Manhattan apartment, my apartment is ten gazillion square feet and has a 3 gazillion square foot cat litter box in it. Just tell the Iron Bank that it’s worth a trillion dollars.
Hey, it worked for Teflon Don.
Some people are born with the get out of jail free card.
Equal Justice under law.
The answer to the Jeopardy question, “‘What pretend principle of American jurisprudence, enshrined over the entrance to the Supreme Court, does the fact that Trump gets a pass on everything make an utter mockery of?’ for one dollar, Alex.”
Jurassicprudence
Alito bit of Jurassic prudence goes a long way
The US Supreme Court = Jurrasstic Park
I guess its spelled jurassticprudence
There is A rule of law in the U.S.
It’s this: Go after the powerless.
Swift and sure “justice” for the poor and powerless–for the guy selling “singles” (cigarettes) on the street corner or bottled water at an intersection.
Swift sure and permanent justice for the guy selling a few cigaretted.
So he never sells them again.
I’m afraid that trend started with the development of city states…I guess we’re not exceptional after all…
It’s frustrating for many us that Trump hasn’t been held responsible for anything he has done as president. For the past six years I’ve been writing about him on my blog. I used those blog posts as the foundation for my book The Trump Files that Diane mentioned at the top of this post. I live about 15 miles from the Fulton County offices of AG Fani Willis. I lived for 50 years in Georgia and worked in Fulton County for more than 30 of those years at Georgia State University, which is walking distance to Fulton’s government offices.
I have confidence in Fani Willis, and also the Judge that oversees her investigation into Trumps election interference. He is the same judge that threw out Georgia’s heart beat abortion law last week. I recommend that you take a few minutes and download for free the Brookings Fulton Co. Trump investigation which is linked in my post at jackhassard.org. I followed this case since the Brad Raffensperger phone call with Trump, his chief of staff and a couple of his lawyers. All of them are targets in Ms. Willis’ case. Together with Willis and the Judge, Donald Trump and at least 15 others (includes 15 fake Georgia (electors) will be facing criminal charges by the end of this year or in early 2023. And this investigation coupled with the DOE’s Special Counsel lead by appointee attorney John “Jack” Smith puts Trump behind the eight ball.
Thanks for adding this info. to the thread.
He has barely been held responsible for anything he has done in an entire lifetime of criminal predation and traitorousness. Why? Because all it takes in the U.S. is enough connections and enough money to buy lawyers.
The justice system for the little people.
The Just Us system for the wealthy and the collection of judicial and political action figures, bobbleheads, and wind-up dolls.
cx: for the wealthy and their collection of judicial and political action figures, bobbleheads, and wind-up dolls.
The judge I mentioned is Fulton County Superior Judge Robert McBurney