Pirate's Cove

I wonder if the Democrats realize that this will just send more people to vote for Trump, as they see the DOJ basically being an arm of the Biden campaign, used for political retribution, as well as further dividing the country and creating more anger?

Trump indicted on charges out of Special Counsel probe into Jan. 6

Former President Trump was indicted Tuesday on charges stemming from Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.

Trump was indicted on four federal charges out of the probe, including 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.

Trump has been ordered to appear in federal court in Washington D.C. for his arraignment on Thursday, Aug. 3, at 4:00 p.m.

Sounds like a reach, but, you know the old saying about being able to indict a ham sandwich

“The Defendant, Donald J. Trump, was the forty-fifth President of the United States and a candidate for re-election in 2020. The Defendant lost the 2020 presidential election,” Smith’s indictment states. “Despite having lost, the Defendant was determined to remain in power.”

Smith alleged that “for more than two months following election day on November 3, 2020,” Trump “spread lies that there had been outcome-determinative fraud in the election and that he had actually won.” It lists various claims Trump’s team made during post-election state challenges in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

“These claims were false, and the Defendant knew that they were false,” Smith alleged. “But the Defendant repeated and widely disseminated them anyway — to make his knowingly false claims appear legitimate, create an intense national atmosphere of mistrust and anger, and erode public faith in the administration of the election.”

That’s a crime? Yammering on about fraud? When do all the Democrats still complaining about 2000, 2004, and 2016 get indicted? When do all those who lied about Russian collusion get indicted?

Smith alleged that Trump, between Nov. 14, 2020 and Jan. 20, 2021, “did knowingly combine conspire, confederate, and agree with co-conspirators, known and unknown to the Grand Jury, to defraud the United States by using dishonest, fraud and deceit to impair, obstruct and defeat the lawful federal government function by which the results of the presidential election are collected, counted, and certified by the federal government.”

That’s going to be a huge reach, but, the idea is not to convict Trump, but, to jam him up and cause hum to lose 2020. A big question now is “is this Constitutional?” It’s never been settled whether a federally elected official can be tried for actions that occurred while in office can be criminally prosecuted without being fully impeached by the House and dismissed by the Senate. It’s almost impossible to try an elected official while in office. So, what about when the “crimes” occurred while in office and they stepped down or lost an election? It doesn’t seem that Trump or his legal team are considering this aspect, so, we may never know.

Reacting to the charges, a Trump campaign spokesperson told Fox News Digital that “this is nothing more than the latest corrupt chapter in the continued pathetic attempt by the Biden Crime Family and their weaponized Department of Justice to interfere with the 2024 Presidential Election, in which President Trump is the undisputed frontrunner, and leading by substantial margins.”

I’ll be honest, I want Trump to go away. I do not think he can win in 2024, even against Horrible Joe Biden. Who can end up with his own legal issues. Regardless, Democrats should remember that they’ve set a precedent, so, the minute Biden is out of office Republican prosecutors will start charging him with felonies.