Will the Evidence (This Time) Change the Conclusion or Will the Conclusion (Again) Change the Evidence? Time Will Tell
By DL White
If you get the feeling, you are experiencing Deja Vue moment, or even a Ground Hog venture in that things continue to repeat themselves……. You do not have to seek medical or mental health treatment, it is just the Donald, the former 45 President of the United States facing the consequences of his actions, yet again.
Those individuals that are “woke” and paying attention will recall Special Prosecutor Mueller, gathering a mile high ton of evidence against Trump, only to have then Attorney General William Barr toss the information without so much as reading the pretext.
Most criminal thinking individuals possess a propensity or gene that allows them to dismiss the very real consequences that might befall them for committing crimes. They also encapsulate themselves with “fall guys” to take the blame and keep on moving, as noted by Criminal Psychologist Dr. Stanton Samenow.
Donald J. Trump without question, possess that gene.
As a result of this mentality, Trump now finds himself facing charges on numerous criminal matters that have all hatched or attempted to hatch near to one another.
Those who would believe the Democrats or Never Trumpsters are hurdling the charges, should take a step back and check the destructive path from which the former 45 President of these United States is reaping what he has sown.
Despite the mounting evidence, Trump earned two significant legal victories last week with separate decisions that make it all but certain two of the pending criminal trials against him will take place after the 2024 election in November.
US District Judge Aileen Cannon on Tuesday, May 7, demonstrating a distinct inability to manage her calendar in south Florida over the former president’s classified documents case, now must delay the matter, because of her own doing.
Cannon is a Trump appointee, she allowed “questionable” legal arguments into the case and let preliminary legal matters pile up on her docket to the point where a May trial moved farther to the backburner…. Score one for Trump.
If that were not enough, consider on Thursday, May 9, the Georgia court of appeals announced it would consider whether Fani Willis, the Fulton County District Attorney, should be removed from the “election interference” case against Trump because of a relationship with another prosecutor.
Many observers of this case believed the matter had been resolved when attorney Nathan Wade resigned as lead counsel and is no longer involved in the case. Willis was reprimanded by the Judge, who stated he saw no reason she could not remain on the case.
Enter Trumps legal team, the Trump counsel wrangled a different decision from another court. More delay, score another one for Trump.
The decision means that Trump will continue to undermine Willis’s credibility and distract from the case. He has significant issues with women and especially Black women that wield power, i.e., Vice President Kamala Harris, Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Whitehouse News correspondent April Danielle Ryan, to list a few.
Anthony Michael Kreis, a law professor at Georgia State University noted, “There will be no trial until 2025.” Kreis has been following the matter.
The third pending case against Trump, a federal election interference case in Washington, also appears unlikely to go to trial before the election. The US supreme court scheduled and heard arguments on whether or Trump has immunity from prosecution last month.
The Supreme Court has three Trump appointees and Justice Clarence Thomas should have recused himself as his wife was a strong and vocal supporter of the 2016 Election was stolen farce.
The decisions create a strong possibly that the public will not get a chance to see Trump held accountable for possible criminal conduct during his last term in office before they decide whether to give him another term in office.
One case that Trump remains immersed in is the criminal trial in Manhattan that centers around allegations he falsified business records to cover up hush-money payments to Stormy Daniels, intentionally suppressing the knowledge of his misdeeds until after the 2016 elections.
At Arizona Informant press time, the Jury was deliberating (June 28). A verdict might be reached sooner than later. The Prosecution presented quite substantial evidence against the former president, while his defense team – called only two witnesses and Trump was not one of them.
Trump was never going to testify, nonetheless he feed that and other inflammatory information to his supporters each day going into the trial. He even had the audacity to attack members of the Judge overseeing his case.
Judge Juan Merchan has held Trump in contempt and fined him a few times however, Trump continue to bemoan his case to the public on his weekend campaign stops.
“The Judges hands are tied, noted a criminal attorney in the Phoenix area, noting. “To incarcerate Trump for breaking the gag order, he would have to be placed in a special cell. His secret service detail would have to be onsite, and the normal operations of the Jail would be thrown off schedule. I think the judge did not want to see that happen.”
If re-elected to the Oval Office, Trump has affirmed he would make the two federal cases against him go away (he has said he would appoint an Attorney General who would fire Jack Smith, the Justice Department’….special prosecutor, and use the Justice Department to investigate his political rivals…..(America would no longer be America).
It is unclear if Fani Willis, the Fulton County DA, could proceed with a criminal case against a sitting president. Thus, affirming elections have consequences.
“In all likelihood, Trump’s election would pause the proceedings against him in Georgia. There is a large consensus among legal academics that a sitting president cannot be tried for crimes. That, however, is an untested constitutional theory, which Fani Willis will challenge,” Kreis said. “If I had to hedge a bet, should Trump win in November, his Fulton County co-defendants will be tried mid-2025 and Trump would stand trial alone after his second term ends.”
While Trump may have successfully secured delays in three of the cases against him, prosecutors in Manhattan continued to move ahead this week (May 13) in laying out evidence for why he should be found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records.
Testimony from key accounting employees at the Trump organization helped connect Trump to the monies that were paid out to Michael Cohen.
Stormy Daniels, the adult film star who alleges she had an affair with Trump in 2006, shared implicit details of her affair with the former President, which noticeable upset Trump, and again recapitulated one of the most embarrassing moments of his life revealed to the public.
“Testimony of this nature happens all the time, and defense attorneys call for mistrials, in a number of criminal trials. I do not think this was even close to cause for a mistrial and do not think it would end up being a major issue on appeal,” said Rebecca Roiphe, a former prosecutor in the Manhattan district attorney’s office who now teaches at New York Law School.
The details of the sexual encounter are relevant because they go to why Trump would want to suppress Daniel’s testimony. The judge tried to limit any prejudicial effect by asking the witness to be less colorful in her description.
Next: By Any Means Necessary – A term one has to be “Woke” to Understand.
Danny L. White currently lives in Phoenix, AZ. He is the author and creative lead for “Discovering the SAUNK in (U) You!” And, the “Sensational letter “S”, a children’s book focused on early reading comprehension and word development. He is also an Adjunct faculty member at Maricopa College, and staff reporter for the Arizona Informant. He is an active member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc, in Phoenix.