I have to say I am perplexed and anxious. At first I was pleasantly shocked at Lauro throwing his client under the bus. Trump bring Trump, you know he’s going to employ the trashiest lawyer he can find. So it’s all part of a pattern and Trump is going to jail ultimately. But.
But, what if it’s all part of a scheme to try the case in the M…
I have to say I am perplexed and anxious. At first I was pleasantly shocked at Lauro throwing his client under the bus. Trump bring Trump, you know he’s going to employ the trashiest lawyer he can find. So it’s all part of a pattern and Trump is going to jail ultimately. But.
But, what if it’s all part of a scheme to try the case in the MSM, poison the jury pool, as you suggest, find a way to build sympathy for Trump in the swing states, and win the election in the Electoral College. That’s the only strategy they got, right? The indictment builds such a strong case. We all know the details from the Jan 6 Committee. Not even Clarence Darrow could get Trump off the hook. So the only strategy is to string out the trial, lots of motions, taking them up yo the Circuit Court on appeal, then the Supremes, where the Dirty Half Dozen (yes, Tom, you can use that), will sit on the petitions snd then remand for further proceedings, and string things out so it’s impossible to get a trial scheduled before November 2024. It has to be their strategy. It’s all they got. Then Pres. Trump (so hard to write that), gets to cause endless Constitutional crises as he pardons himself, gets a corrupt AG to pull the prosecutors, and whatever else he and this deplorables can dream up.
Also, in my experience as a civil lawyer (never tried a criminal matter), I found that my hardest cases were against the stupidest lawyers. They screw everything up, cause lots of delays, make you spin your wheels knocking down the dumbest shit, and judges just don’t have the energy to rein them in. It’s so aggravating. Lauro doesn’t have to be playing 3D chess to delay the trial. If he’s a genuine f--- up, that’s sufficient.
I really hate feeling like American politics and law is nothing more than the human equivalent of Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle. And it’s felt that way since 2016.
Very good. And yes, Trump's presidential campaign is a getaway vehicle. And yes, he's going to poison the jury pool in front of us and they won't lay a hand on him because he won't say a word.
One hopes that holding the trial in Washington DC will make it more difficult to poison the jury pool than it would have in rural Florida. And the assigned judge has been tough on the wretches who stormed the Capitol, so I think she will not tolerate real shenanigans from Trump or his lawyers. And I still think Trump will run afoul of the magistrate judge and end up in jail or house arrest and unable to campaign, so delaying the trial would be a non-starter for him. Lay in a good supply of popcorn.....a single malt would be nice too.
Trump and his cohorts are playing to the jury of the American people. They are looking to grow MAGA, call Trump innocent and win the presidency. WINNING THE PRESIDENCY COMES FIRST. Trump never ever does anything wrong and never loses; he's been victimized. They've been playing the same script all along.
Fern, I agree that he thinks he never does anything wrong. Typical sociopath thinking, because they don't have an ability to see right/wrong. He doesn't see the gravity of the charges and assumes he'll get off, like every other time in his life
GarySanDiego, we share a sense of what -- sadness, uncertainly, a foreboding, the sense of a lost society - not a society but a mass of contradictions ….and of hate ?
I have to say I am perplexed and anxious. At first I was pleasantly shocked at Lauro throwing his client under the bus. Trump bring Trump, you know he’s going to employ the trashiest lawyer he can find. So it’s all part of a pattern and Trump is going to jail ultimately. But.
But, what if it’s all part of a scheme to try the case in the MSM, poison the jury pool, as you suggest, find a way to build sympathy for Trump in the swing states, and win the election in the Electoral College. That’s the only strategy they got, right? The indictment builds such a strong case. We all know the details from the Jan 6 Committee. Not even Clarence Darrow could get Trump off the hook. So the only strategy is to string out the trial, lots of motions, taking them up yo the Circuit Court on appeal, then the Supremes, where the Dirty Half Dozen (yes, Tom, you can use that), will sit on the petitions snd then remand for further proceedings, and string things out so it’s impossible to get a trial scheduled before November 2024. It has to be their strategy. It’s all they got. Then Pres. Trump (so hard to write that), gets to cause endless Constitutional crises as he pardons himself, gets a corrupt AG to pull the prosecutors, and whatever else he and this deplorables can dream up.
Also, in my experience as a civil lawyer (never tried a criminal matter), I found that my hardest cases were against the stupidest lawyers. They screw everything up, cause lots of delays, make you spin your wheels knocking down the dumbest shit, and judges just don’t have the energy to rein them in. It’s so aggravating. Lauro doesn’t have to be playing 3D chess to delay the trial. If he’s a genuine f--- up, that’s sufficient.
I really hate feeling like American politics and law is nothing more than the human equivalent of Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle. And it’s felt that way since 2016.
Very good. And yes, Trump's presidential campaign is a getaway vehicle. And yes, he's going to poison the jury pool in front of us and they won't lay a hand on him because he won't say a word.
One hopes that holding the trial in Washington DC will make it more difficult to poison the jury pool than it would have in rural Florida. And the assigned judge has been tough on the wretches who stormed the Capitol, so I think she will not tolerate real shenanigans from Trump or his lawyers. And I still think Trump will run afoul of the magistrate judge and end up in jail or house arrest and unable to campaign, so delaying the trial would be a non-starter for him. Lay in a good supply of popcorn.....a single malt would be nice too.
Trump and his cohorts are playing to the jury of the American people. They are looking to grow MAGA, call Trump innocent and win the presidency. WINNING THE PRESIDENCY COMES FIRST. Trump never ever does anything wrong and never loses; he's been victimized. They've been playing the same script all along.
Fern, I agree that he thinks he never does anything wrong. Typical sociopath thinking, because they don't have an ability to see right/wrong. He doesn't see the gravity of the charges and assumes he'll get off, like every other time in his life
GarySanDiego, we share a sense of what -- sadness, uncertainly, a foreboding, the sense of a lost society - not a society but a mass of contradictions ….and of hate ?
Exactly. It’s like God is playing dice with democracy and I just can’t get my head around it.
(Yeah, I recently watched “Oppenheimer.” Apologies for the physics metaphors. 🤦🏻♂️)
Gary, you've summed this up nicely. Thank you.
My fears so well articulated