Now that Donald Trump has secured victory in the election, he can rest assured that his legal difficulties will rapidly fade away. Grand Inquisitor Jack Smith has already accepted the inevitable. Since the whole point of his special persecution was to interfere in the election and block Trump’s chances of winning, it’s now a moot point. He already went to Merrick Garland to request the paperwork to drop his two pending federal cases. The state ones should fall off shortly, as well.
Trump cases falling apart
Everyone knew that the criminal charges against Donald Trump were nothing but partisan election interference. Now that he’s won the election, there’s no reason for any of them to move forward.
While there’s a ghost of a chance something could be left to hang over his head until after his term’s completed, that’s mostly wishful thinking on the part of disgruntled Democrats.
Both Joe Biden and Donald Trump staked their legal defenses on winning the election. Joe’s dropping out didn’t matter so much because his special prosecutor proved that he’s incompetent to stand trial.
Since he’s in the clear, with nothing to worry about except figuring out a way to leave some sort of legacy besides a stack of empty Ben & Jerry’s containers, his crackhead son can work his way out of his own messes. The same goes for his indiscreet brother James.
Trump won the election, so, as far as the experts figure, he’s now totally in the clear. The cases will soon come grinding to a halt, The Hill predicts. Technically, Trump’s the “first convicted felon to reach the nation’s highest office.”
They have to put an asterisk on that because if the case isn’t dismissed entirely, as expected, he can’t be sentenced until after he serves out his term. That sort of makes it not worth bothering about.
Control of the DOJ
Within moments of Donald Trump being sworn in, Merrick Garland will be out of a job. The new attorney general will toss the federal criminal cases straight in the trash, where they belong. That leaves two state cases.
Both of them had problems even before the election which could lead to their dismissal. If they aren’t dismissed, “Trump’s lawyers are expected to ask judges to put his Georgia and New York prosecutions on ice.”
Trump already warned Jack Smith to start looking for work elsewhere. “It’s so easy. I would fire him within two seconds,” the once and future president promised. “That would effectively end two federal cases.”
Smith woke up to the election results on Wednesday and quit voluntarily. He’s all ready to drop both of his cases so he doesn’t have to waste time beating two dead horses.
In Georgia, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is in trouble for sleeping with another prosecutor on the case. “A state appeals court is weighing whether she should be removed over her romantic relationship.” If she’s not, she’ll have to wait until 2029 to bring him to trial.
That’s the same situation Alvin Bragg’s New York case is in. As a lawyer for President Trump already argued, “under the Supremacy Clause and his duties as president of the United States, this trial would not take place at all until after he left his term of office.” Why bother?
