TWGB: The Farce of Law

 

Special Counsel Jack Smith has asked for the dismissal of the election interference case against Trump (without prejudice) and has dropped the challenge to Judge Cannon's dismissal of the classified documents (espionage) case--with respects to Trump, not with respects to his accomplices. 

People are pointing fingers. I see a lot of shit being shoveled Merrick Garland's way. I remember the disappointment folks had with Robert Mueller when Barr terminated his investigation and called for the report, which never did exonerate Trump, except in the eyes of TrumpWorld--and people who hadn't been paying attention. Look--I am not a lawyer, and I don't know what all goes into grand juries, planning a case, and dealing with the sheer firewall of money and privilege that comes with a guy being a former president. like Trump's lawyers were able to throw a lot of chaff up in the sights and gum up the works pretty nicely--no matter what the evidence was. 

There was a pretty damn serious PR game going on, too. And it looks to me like the clear news aspects of what Trump had done, and what those around him had done, got lost.

It seems like a lot to reckon with in a short time. I defer to the expertise of people who are experts about these things, and don't confuse my disappointment with a valid criticism--it truly is not my place to judge that part. I know my limits. 

On the other hand, the political aspect of this farce and who to blame for it all is something I feel competent to judge:

I blame Republicans. The Republican party is without honor. Since the Bush years, I have never gotten a fix on which part of them was dishonesty and which part ignorance, and I have long since stopped caring as both attributes are disqualifying. 

They could have taken the Trump University settlement, the multiple bankruptcies, the racism of his being a birther, the TMZ tape and all the allegations of sexual harassment and assault, the "Russia if you are listening?" moment and Trump's regular scumminess and money-laundering adjacency to try and disavow him--they didn't. 

They could have noticed that George Papadopoulos, Paul Manafort, Mike Flynn, and Don, Jr. all pointed back at some UNCOMFORTABLE connections vis the Mueller Report, but preferred not to. Even if that sort of thing was memorialized in the Republican-led Senate intelligence report on the same question.  

They could have taken a moment to take the first impeachment seriously and asked themselves if fucking with Ukraine was the reason why Russia was toying with the 2016 election in the first place, and what else they wanted, but by then they threw the whole question of Trump's impact on our national intelligence and security out the window despite really huge red flags. They could have convicted his ass in the Senate and let perfectly normal Republican Mike Pence finish out his term honorably. 

They didn't. 

So they let him off and were complicit in the January 6 dealings, and they could have convicted his ass once again in the Senate and just prevented his running again --but what did they do?

They made sure he was still able to run again. Thats what fucked up and further delayed the DOJ getting on him.

And as for the conservative (GOP) led SCOTUS-they gave this man immunity for "official acts" which might as well mean whatever Trump wants it to mean. 

No honor, no decency, no adherence to the rule of law, no concern for facts, and the complete absence of the courage of any plausible patriotic conviction. That is how I see the Republican Party. Literally a violin string might have more guts than the GOP as an institution has shown.

The 1/6 Committee brought Republican after Republican to bear witness to what Trump had done, and even if told by their own GOP members--they gutlessly preferred to concede power to a bully who was out of office because of the rioters and militia idiots they saw on 1/6. The fear of not conforming to the mob rule gave them the shits, the fits, and the blind staggers. They could have shown leadership, but they were just pure knee-walking ain't shitness. 

It's their mess, and I'm happy to leave them to wallow in it, because the sewers are going to back up hard on them. And I hope they greet the deluge with an open-mouthed smile. 

UPDATE: Just as a postscript--without prejudice means Jack Smith will get back to this if for whatever reason Trump is no longer president, so he isn't fixing to let it all the way go--and also, that the business of prosecuting Trump's co-conspirators in the classified docs issue might proceed is also not at all admitting to an exoneration--obviously there was law-breaking in TrumpWorld. The problem is getting Trump himself, the spider in the middle of the web, to catch grief for any of it.