Honestly, I’ve lost almost all faith in Garland. No matter how he proceeds from this point on, it’s clear that fear (and not justice) has been the primary influence in his decision making so far. That said, I also think he might be backed into a corner where he has no choice but to do his job
Fani Willis otoh, has no such problem and I long ago thought that GA would be the Trump gang’s biggest problem. I have every reason to believe that she’s working diligently and in good faith (unlike Garland) in doing her job. It’s my understanding that the judge will decide within the next couple of days on whether to keep the special grand jury report sealed. Once that’s decided on, I think Willis makes her decision with a month tops
She didn’t say outright that she will be bringing charges, but she phrased her arguments yesterday in such a way as to hint that it’s a very likely possibility. So
But my main point was how likely it now seems that any president (or government official?) may have absconded with documents that they shouldn’t have. And it took a narcissistic brazen abuser of rules, laws, and norms like Trump, to reveal that there’s a problem with the system. That is perhaps one of the best things to come out of his presidency. He revealed many of the cracks and weaknesses in our government and institutions. Now the question is, will we fix them?
However, if we’re talking about the actual serving of any sentence, then I think posthumously is a real possibility given the age of some of the likely defendants
“Absconded” implies knowing intent of wrong-doing. What Biden and Pence had is probably not that harmful to national security and highly unlikely to be intentional. We over-classify information and they are smart enough to recognize the truly harmful stuff. They’re not going to “abscond” with those things.
The problem with the system is that democracy requires super-majority support for democratic norms; the losing side has to accept losing. They’ve figured out that they can game the system by not obeying norms. Trump showed them that they don’t even have to pay lip service to those norms. The question is whether Democrats can find it within themselves to violate those same norms if necessary to prevent a conservative victory.
I of course agree about classified documents, but I feel a much bigger problem with the system than an adherence to, or willingness to go outside the norms, is our minority rule government. It’s ridiculous already
By all rights the lying thieving scumbag should go to prison but he skates for sure now. They should press congresspeople for documents too. Close to 100% Mitch and Ted et al. have a few things they’re not supposed to.
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Truth Social CEO Devin Nunes predicted that Truth Social would “displace” Big Tech platforms as a preferred advertising space.
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