Timing isn’t everything. But it certainly matters, and seldom more so than in special counsel Jack Smith’s prosecution of Donald Trump.
The former US president intends to use timing – delay, delay, delay – to avoid punishment for trying to overturn the 2020 election, which he lost to Joe Biden, and for fomenting a violent coup.
Nope, said Smith this week. A tough guy who has prosecuted war crimes in the Hague, Smith clearly recognizes that putting off the case until after next fall’s presidential election could let Trump off the hook.
So the prosecutor made a bold legal maneuver. Smith moved to bypass the court of appeals, whose involvement could slow things down considerably, and to go directly to the US supreme court for a decision on a foundational issue.
A tough guy
You really didn’t need to spell it out, Margaret. It’s abundantly clear from checks notes everything about this article including the headline that you’re trying to portray him as an action hero rather than what he is: a seemingly highly competent attorney prosecuting the worst president in US history.
Sane people don’t need more than that to root for him and the ones who are still rooting for the Mango Mussolini at this point can’t be reached.
I think you underestimate the amount of people who are getting paid to support him
Nah, while for different reasons, those are just as unreachable.
When it affects you enough to ignore all of reality, there’s not much reason to distinguish between pathological greed and pathological groupthink, since they arrive at the same location and jump through as many hoops to tell themselves that they’re right to and justified in doing what they do.
The intellectual and professional desert of center-lib media is fascinating: The same rotating cast of five MSNBC guests who are on every day, all day, are now primary fodder for print stories trying to get in on wishcasting monetization, like this Guardian piece. Newsweek and HuffPost literally report MSNBC show opinions now, like they’re news.
There are hundreds of qualified law professors and law firm partners with either deep legal theory or direct practice experience relevant to the Trump cases, but good luck hearing from them. Instead, we get Vance, Litman, Katyal, McQuade, and Weissman, all day every day, and now also in print.
This desert isn’t good for us. The MSNBC wishcasting monetization model left Americans poorly prepared for the Mueller outcome. The guy was canonized as a genius Marine Superman who would undoubtedly smite Trump; other professional voices weren’t invited on.
I couldn’t agree more without pulling a muscle or something!
