Here are my immediate (and not very hot) takes on the decision to indict former president and current presidential candidate Donald Trump: First, the New York prosecutor’s case against Trump is garbage. Almost everyone knows this, even the editorial board
That's as good a hot-take a I've read so far, Paul and I think you've nailed it.
How it all plays out in the courts is a mystery that will unfold slowly, and it could break for or against Trump and republicans in so many ways.
On #8, beyond Bragg's ambitions, I find it hard to believe that such an impactful and risky move wouldn't have been green-lighted by party leadership (Biden or whoever is pulling his puppet strings) – particularly if Bragg has grander ambitions in the party.
Beyond that, you forgot to include the word "Rubicon" somewhere in your piece. It's fast becoming the best known river in the US next to the Mississippi.
This case is just a repeat of the previous trial with Stephanie Gregory Clifford, Stormy, and Michael Avenatti loosing big time. Trump and his legal team will get a judgement for all their legal fees, AGAIN. The DA that brought this case has a long history of letting murders, rapists and armed robbers off with a slap on the wrist to commit more rapes, robberies and murders. Alvin Bragg will likely end up charged and convicted of prosecutorial misconduct. He is basing his entire case on the testimony of a proven liar. And Bragg KNOWS that that his witness Cohen is lying to the grand jury.
On #5: Widely recognized, that disparity will only grate and fester with time. Time does not always heal a wound.
On #6: I wonder how immune to all this GOP congressmen and senators now feel. At what point does reality intrude on those so intensely focused on careerism and mortgages in suburban DC?
On #8: And such a sudden change from just a day or two ago when all signs pointed to a month or more before hearing from the grand jury. Whatever is it that happened in the last couple days? Never underestimate the sheer brazenness of Democrats when there's need for a squirrel.
After the last 6 years of non-stop attempts to destroy Trump, a legitimately elected President, is this really such a surprise? Okay then, can we at least say this one...this one...is a crossing of the Rubicon? Because I don't see how this is undone. How does one come back from this? Appeals to those mystic chords of memory? No doubt some Republican will try that line and be hooted down for the effort.
Caesar crossed the Rubicon. Not living anywhere near DC, I have to wonder if DC Democrats think that their tribe is up to that earlier standard and whether any of them are well enough read in history to know how that all turned out in the end. How long do they think that they can rely on the national GOP to hold off the less than clubby? Realizing all that, they simply cannot give up power now.
Democrats never learn a thing and simply cannot be taught. It's the same damn thing over and over putting themselves in the position described by Jefferson in an 1820 exchange with John Holmes; the same one in which he describes hearing a fire bell in the night: "But as it is, we have the wolf by the ear, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other."
This case is just a repeat of the previous trial with Stephanie Gregory Clifford, Stormy, and Michael Avenatti loosing big time. Trump and his legal team will get a judgement for all their legal fees, AGAIN. The DA that brought this case has a long history of letting murders, rapists and armed robbers off with a slap on the wrist to commit more rapes, robberies and murders. Alvin Bragg will likely end up charged and convicted of prosecutorial misconduct. He is basing his entire case on the testimony of a proven liar. And Bragg KNOWS that that his witness Cohen is lying to the grand jury.
That's as good a hot-take a I've read so far, Paul and I think you've nailed it.
How it all plays out in the courts is a mystery that will unfold slowly, and it could break for or against Trump and republicans in so many ways.
On #8, beyond Bragg's ambitions, I find it hard to believe that such an impactful and risky move wouldn't have been green-lighted by party leadership (Biden or whoever is pulling his puppet strings) – particularly if Bragg has grander ambitions in the party.
Beyond that, you forgot to include the word "Rubicon" somewhere in your piece. It's fast becoming the best known river in the US next to the Mississippi.
I suppose we are well past the point in America, were a malicious, political prosecution would result in disbarment?
This case is just a repeat of the previous trial with Stephanie Gregory Clifford, Stormy, and Michael Avenatti loosing big time. Trump and his legal team will get a judgement for all their legal fees, AGAIN. The DA that brought this case has a long history of letting murders, rapists and armed robbers off with a slap on the wrist to commit more rapes, robberies and murders. Alvin Bragg will likely end up charged and convicted of prosecutorial misconduct. He is basing his entire case on the testimony of a proven liar. And Bragg KNOWS that that his witness Cohen is lying to the grand jury.
On #5: Widely recognized, that disparity will only grate and fester with time. Time does not always heal a wound.
On #6: I wonder how immune to all this GOP congressmen and senators now feel. At what point does reality intrude on those so intensely focused on careerism and mortgages in suburban DC?
On #8: And such a sudden change from just a day or two ago when all signs pointed to a month or more before hearing from the grand jury. Whatever is it that happened in the last couple days? Never underestimate the sheer brazenness of Democrats when there's need for a squirrel.
After the last 6 years of non-stop attempts to destroy Trump, a legitimately elected President, is this really such a surprise? Okay then, can we at least say this one...this one...is a crossing of the Rubicon? Because I don't see how this is undone. How does one come back from this? Appeals to those mystic chords of memory? No doubt some Republican will try that line and be hooted down for the effort.
Caesar crossed the Rubicon. Not living anywhere near DC, I have to wonder if DC Democrats think that their tribe is up to that earlier standard and whether any of them are well enough read in history to know how that all turned out in the end. How long do they think that they can rely on the national GOP to hold off the less than clubby? Realizing all that, they simply cannot give up power now.
Democrats never learn a thing and simply cannot be taught. It's the same damn thing over and over putting themselves in the position described by Jefferson in an 1820 exchange with John Holmes; the same one in which he describes hearing a fire bell in the night: "But as it is, we have the wolf by the ear, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other."
More persecution of Trump does not harm him, it harms the persecutors.
This case is just a repeat of the previous trial with Stephanie Gregory Clifford, Stormy, and Michael Avenatti loosing big time. Trump and his legal team will get a judgement for all their legal fees, AGAIN. The DA that brought this case has a long history of letting murders, rapists and armed robbers off with a slap on the wrist to commit more rapes, robberies and murders. Alvin Bragg will likely end up charged and convicted of prosecutorial misconduct. He is basing his entire case on the testimony of a proven liar. And Bragg KNOWS that that his witness Cohen is lying to the grand jury.
One legal question for you, Paul:
DeSantis said that FL would not cooperate in extraditing Trump to NY.
If had Trump had decided not to surrender himself but to defy Bragg and provoke a confrontation, what do you think would have happened?
Could Bragg have arrested him in FL or other states without the help of local police?