The People v. Donald J. Trump The criminal case against him is already in the works

[Laura PourMeADrink]

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/donald-trump-criminal-case.html

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No commander-in-chief has been charged with a criminal offense, let alone faced prison time. But if Donald Trump loses the election in November, he will forfeit not only a sitting president’s presumptive immunity from prosecution but also the levers of power he has aggressively co-opted for his own protection. Considering the number of crimes he has committed, the time span over which he has committed them, and the range of jurisdictions in which his crimes have taken place, his potential legal exposure is breathtaking. More than a dozen investigations are already under way against him and his associates. Even if only one or two of them result in criminal charges, the proceedings that follow will make the O. J. Simpson trial look like an afternoon in traffic court.

It may seem unlikely that Trump will ever wind up in a criminal court. His entire life, after all, is one long testament to the power of getting away with things, a master class in criminality without consequences, even before he added presidentiality and all its privileges to his arsenal of defenses. As he himself once said, “When you’re a star, they let you do it.” But for all his advantages and all his enablers, including loyalists in the Justice Department and the federal judiciary, Trump now faces a level of legal risk unlike anything in his notoriously checkered past — and well beyond anything faced by any previous president leaving office. To assess the odds that he will end up on trial, and how the proceedings would unfold, I spoke with some of the country’s top prosecutors, defense attorneys, and legal scholars. For the past four years, they have been weighing the case against Trump: the evidence already gathered, the witnesses prepared to testify, the political and constitutional issues involved in prosecuting an ex-president. Once he leaves office, they agree, there is good reason to think Trump will face criminal charges. “It’s going to head toward prosecution, and the litigation is going to be fierce,” says Bennett Gershman, a professor of constitutional law at Pace Law School who served for a decade as a New York State prosecutor.

[dalton99a]

1. The Day of Reckoning is coming

[lagomorph777]

2. I sure hope he's right!

We have to stop the GOP crime spree. Trump, his cabinet and ex-cabinet, and many of his enablers in the House and Senate should face criminal charges.

[Wicked Blue]

3. Orange jumpsuit coordinates nicely with the hair and makeup

It boggles the mind to think of what he will look like when he's prison-pasty and wearing a jail buzzcut on the side of his head where he still has hair.

[malaise]

4. He should also be charged for criminal negligence leading to the deaths of

over 200,000 people and infections for nearly seven million.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

7. Learning there were plenty of others who remained silent too

Not in charge, of course, but still. Can they be found guilty of negligent homicide too? Or if their "boss" told them not to say anything, they are off the hook?

[malaise]

8. They are all accessories

including everyone who told him and remained silent.
It's almost comical that he bis now trying to blame Woodward for not reporting him to himself. O'Brien, Azar, Navarro and others all knew and kept it from the public - so did others at CNC and everyone with links to WHO..

[Laura PourMeADrink]

14. And sadly some Dems too :(

[Blue Owl]

5. O glorious day...

Please let it be so...

[Gothmog]

6. For trump-it is a second term or jail term

[BlueWavePsych]

9. Lock him up and throw away the key

[flotsam]

10. From the wardens wall in "Shawshank"

"His judgment cometh and that right soon."

[dugog55]

11. Well, we will save money on Secret Service,

The Aryan Nation Brotherhood will have his back while he does his time. After all, he is one of them

[lindysalsagal]

12. No one thought Cosby would be prosecuted, either.

Ironically, all these legal fights don't rein him in at all. He's talking about deserving a 3rd term.

[FakeNoose]

13. I'll read this with interest ...

... but don't make me look at that ugly mugshot, please.

Now I need some eye bleach!