This Is Not the Trump Indictment That You’re Looking For

David Thornton

David Thornton is a freelance writer and professional pilot who has also lived in Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas. He is a graduate of the University of Georgia and Emmanuel College. He is Christian conservative/libertarian who was fortunate enough to have seen Ronald Reagan in person during his formative years. A former contributor to The Resurgent, David now writes for the Racket News with fellow Resurgent alum, Steve Berman, and his personal blog, CaptainKudzu. He currently lives with his wife and daughter near Columbus, Georgia. His son is serving in the US Air Force. You can find him on Twitter @CaptainKudzu and Facebook.

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  1. Philip H says:

    The likelihood of gaslighting with him is always 100%.

    And this leftist won’t celebrate until he’s convicted. Which I maintain is the only way to end his presidential nomination by the GOP base.

    What’s interesting to me now is whether some sort of state -federal joint prosecution could be worked out so every news cast about any trial has to go through the litany of crimes.Report

  2. Chip Daniels says:

    Even if his prediction is wrong, he will have returned to the front page, generated contributions, and inspired Republicans to circle the wagons around him.

    Which I think is the more important point. We need to keep in mind that for the Republican
    voter base, criminality and corruption is a feature not a bug, so long as the proper grievances are stoked.Report

  3. Dark Matter says:

    By far the weakest charge against him is the whole Stormy Daniels thing. The idea that paying off her counts as a campaign contribution rests on the idea that he wouldn’t have done so if he hadn’t been running for President… even though he’s done similar things in the past without running for President.

    It’s a losing case to chase. My expectation is the serious players are chasing real cases against him and he’s just making up stuff about his arrest. When that arrest doesn’t appear he’ll claim victory.Report

    • Philip H in reply to Dark Matter says:

      This is my expectation as well.Report

    • DavidTC in reply to Dark Matter says:

      They should have just charged him with falsifying business records way back then and been done with it. Honestly, they should have charged him with _all sorts_ of falsifying business records, just charge him with being the platonic ideal of falsifying business records, because it is extremely clear that all his business records are just made-up nonsense with no basis in fact.

      I’m not saying that to ‘get him’, I’m saying that because people really shouldn’t be allowed to get away with such nonsense.

      But apparently there’s a statute of limitation that’s been passed. (Am I the only person who thinks that, if the government cannot charge someone with a crime because they are currently president, the statute of limitation on their crimes should be halted during that? Doesn’t that seem obvious?)

      Anyway, this crime really doesn’t have anything to do with politics, it’s just sorta a general Trump Crime(TM) and unless the government has some novel charge that isn’t a campaign contribution, this isn’t going anywhere.

      And I have no idea why anyone, left or right, believed Trump. Someone said two days ago to me ‘Trump’s going to be arrested Tuesday’, and I hadn’t heard this and said ”Oh? That would be nice. Who’s saying that? And arrested for which crime?’, and when the reply to the first question was ‘Trump’ I instantly dismissed that entire thing as a possibility. Trump does not know things. Like, generally.Report

      • Dark Matter in reply to DavidTC says:

        They should have just charged him with falsifying business records way back then and been done with it.

        It’s a misdemeanor unless they can attach it to another crime like campaign violations.

        Thing is Trump has been doing this on a serial basis for decades. He had a deal with the head of the National Enquirer where NE would buy the exclusive rights to a woman’s story and then never publish it.Report

    • DensityDuck in reply to Dark Matter says:

      “My expectation is the serious players are chasing real cases against him…”

      lol

      it’s Qanon in reverse!Report

      • Dark Matter in reply to DensityDuck says:

        OK, I’ll rephrase.

        We know darn well there are serious players chasing real cases against him. Why would you chase him for his sex life on a losing case when you can join a serious team?

        Unfortunately the answer might be that although it’s a terrible case, bringing it means the NY AG gets on the front page of the news.Report

        • DensityDuck in reply to Dark Matter says:

          The interesting thing about Donald Trump is that he got where he is because of people exploiting him. They figure that if they push him into a place where he makes ten million dollars, they can pull a million dollars out of that for themselves.

          And, honestly, this just seems like more of that. They get him in the news and he gets a lot of attention, and they get a little bit of attention themselves for being part of the business.Report

          • Philip H in reply to DensityDuck says:

            Wow. The man commits treason against his own country and you think its just a little money making scheme.

            Fascinating.Report

            • Dark Matter in reply to Philip H says:

              He’s talking about Stormy and the NY AG (if this is serious).

              He’s also right. This is a joke of a case and if it happens it will only be because the AG wants some headlines.

              Trump is a serial adulterer and a serial cover-it-up-by-throwing-money-at-it. He would have done exactly the same thing even without the Presidential run.

              The treason (I don’t think that’s the actual charge) issue is another thing and is NOT a joke of a case.Report

  4. Gavin Coover says:

    Apparently no one can reason with the Manhattan DA. It’s been tried before.

    In more world-changing news, we almost lost the world financial system. Again.
    How many more times can we keep passing the buck before it goes?
    When will it stop? Nobody knows!Report

  5. Philip H says:

    Like so much that he does, this is more “flooding the zone with sh!t” for which he’s known. He doesn’t care its not true. His followers don’t care it’s not true. It won’t hurt one iota with the base.Report