We all know the saga of the documents confiscated at the ex-president's Florida residence....and of course all the other investigations swirling around our Orange Man from Florida.....
Trump has issued a warning.....
Donald Trump is predicting big, if unspecified, trouble in the US if he is indicted over his handling of classified documents. "I think if it happened, I think you'd have problems in this country the likes of which perhaps we've never seen before," he said on conservative Hugh Hewitt's radio show Thursday, per the Washington Post. "I don't think the people of the United States would stand for it.' Hewitt pressed him on what he meant by "problems," but Trump didn't specify. "I think they'd have big problems, big problems," he said, per the transcript. "I just don't think they'd stand for it. They will not, they will not sit still and stand for this ultimate of hoaxes."
When Hewitt told Trump the "legacy media" would accuse him of inciting violence, Trump responded: "That's not inciting. I'm just saying what my opinion is. I don't think the people of this country would stand for it." Trump reiterated that he did nothing wrong, adding that an indictment would not bar him from running in the 2024 race, per the Hill. His comments on potential trouble echo those of ally Lindsey Graham, who recently warned of "riots in the streets" should the former president be indicted. The Trump interview came on the same day senators were briefed on the increase in threats to federal law enforcement officials since the Mar-a-Lago search, notes Politico.
Democratic judiciary panel chair Dick Durbin called the number of threats "stunning" afterward and criticized Trump for contributing to the problem. "Inviting a mob to return to the streets is exactly what happened here on Jan. 6, 2021," said Durbin. "His careless, inflammatory rhetoric has its consequences." But GOP Sen. Rick Scott said after the briefing that it demonstrated the need for more transparency about the reasons for the Mar-a-Lago search. "You have to give people good information so these rumors don't continue," he said. "I don't know why they raided the former president's house. ... They know the conspiracy theories that are out there. So convince people that they're not true."
The big question these days is will he be indicted and will he be confined?
America's democracy crisis will not end anytime soon. Donald Trump and his acolytes in the Republican-fascist party continue to incite acts of right-wing violence, including terrorism, on a nationwide scale as part of their plan to end American democracy and replace it with authoritarianism and one-party rule.
The Big Lie continues to spread across the United States. A majority of Republicans now subscribe to the repeatedly disproven theory that the 2020 Election was somehow illegitimate, that Trump is the "real" president and Joe Biden is a pretender and usurper. "MAGA" is American neofascism; it has fully conquered the Republican Party.
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Will Donald Trump eventually be prosecuted, convicted and then imprisoned for his apparent high crimes, which may include violating the Espionage Act? Attorney and author Kenneth Foard McCallion believes that the answer is probably no.
https://www.salon.com/2022/09/19/former-prosecutor-a-day-of-reckoning-is-coming-for--but-hes-not-going-to-jail/
I believe this is correct....he will slip away from be held accountable in any form.
Thoughts?
I Read, I Write, You Know
"lego ergo scribo"
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