June is Espionage & Conspiracy

Regular readers of this blog know i occasionally name months, following the Slavic inspired tradition. Sometimes i do predictions of things i think might happen in the month, but mostly something famous drives my selection. It might be someone passing, it might be a new child or a historic first.

As you can likely guess from this blog title, this month is named after the federal indictment for the previous president on Espionage and Conspiracy charges. 37 felonies in total, representing a maximum sentence over 400 years in prison. Yet most people don’t think Trump will do a day in jail.

But despite this understandable skepticism about Trump facing justice, it is important to note that these charges are very significant. Not because they have a long maximum sentence, but because they are clearly provable charges, a well crafted speaking indictment and they give the GOP yet another exit ramp from this candidate who is responsible for so many losses. 

The case Trump needs to worry about most is the Georgia indictment (which is expected in the first half of August). First, it is immune from a Federal pardon, avoiding the annoying situation where a convicted Trump might be able to pardon himself. But more importantly, Georgia’s DAs do not have the DOJs restriction that they can not convict Trump near an election. And Fani Willis of Fulton County has made it clear her RICO Conspiracy Trial of the former president is going forward.

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