{"id":1439,"date":"2023-06-20T15:55:29","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T15:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=1439"},"modified":"2023-06-20T15:55:29","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T15:55:29","slug":"trying-times-magats-are-having-the-week-from-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=1439","title":{"rendered":"Trying Times — MAGAts are having the week from hell"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bryan Zepp Jamieson<\/i><\/p>\n

June 20th<\/sup> 2023<\/i><\/p>\n

www.zeppscommentaries.online<\/i><\/p>\n

Well, it\u2019s not a very good day for MAGAts. First, Trump had an absolutely catastrophic interview with, of all people, Brett Baier at Fox News. The following morning, the date and location for his trial was announced: \u201cThis case is hereby set for a Criminal Jury Trial during the two-week period commencing August 14, 2023, or as soon thereafter as the case may be called. A Calendar Call will be held at 1:45 p.m. on August 8, 2023. All hearings will be held at Alto Lee Adams, Sr. United States Courthouse, 101 South U.S. Highway 1, Courtroom 4008, Fort Pierce, Florida 34950, with modifications to be made as necessary as this matter proceeds.\u201d<\/p>\n

Aileen (the Loose) Cannon will be presiding, and much as she may want to get Trump off the hook, it doesn\u2019t seem likely that she could get away with anything other than a negotiated plea bargain (and even if Trump had enough sense to accept a deal, Jack Smith is unlikely to let him get away with a slap on the wrist.) Her other escape avenue would be to have Trump submit to a competency hearing. In the wake of the Baier interview, a case really could be made for that.<\/p>\n

I can just picture MAGAts in their flags and star-spangled panties and such declaring, \u201cHe may be a drooling idiot, but by God, he\u2019s OUR drooling idiot.\u201d Voters with three digit IQs who don\u2019t have six or more psychiatric markers might have second thoughts about him.<\/p>\n

Then, just to rub a little salt in the wound, they announced a plea bargain in the case against Hunter Biden. According to the Guardian, \u201cBiden, 53, was charged <\/a>with illegally owning a firearm in 2018 after lying about his drug use when he purchased a gun. Biden was also charged with failing to file and pay taxes in 2017 and 2018, which are misdemeanor offenses. Documents from the Justice Department confirm that Biden will enter a pre-trial diversion agreement for the firearm offense.\u201d Biden probably won\u2019t serve any jail time, although the firearms agreement is likely to result in probation and he may lose the right to vote for a while. But the laptop and the missing 19 tapes and the \u201cspecial whistleblower\u201d nobody can find all just went away, leaving only the ineffectual nuts to howl their conspiracy theories into the void.<\/p>\n

Since I started writing this about a half hour ago, Trump said: \u201cWow! The corrupt Biden DOJ just cleared up hundreds of years of criminal liability by giving Hunter Biden a mere \u2018traffic ticket.\u2019 Our system is BROKEN!\u201d Well, if the system didn\u2019t have serious flaws, Trump would have been in prison many years ago, so there\u2019s that.<\/p>\n

James Comer called Biden\u2019s charges a \u201cslap on the wrist when growing evidence uncovered by the House Oversight Committee reveals the Bidens engaged in a pattern of corruption, influence peddling, and possibly bribery\u201d. OK, bubbles. Prove it. Oh, you\u2019ve spent thousands of hours and millions of dollars already, and have nothing to show for it? Aw, poor Jimmy. Bit a wooden leg and now his teeth hurt.<\/p>\n

Mary Millar, howling nut from Illinois, wrote, \u201cHunter Biden is receiving a sweetheart deal from the DOJ that shields \u2018THE BIG GUY\u2019 Joe Biden from the Biden foreign bribery operation. The cash & diamonds he didn’t pay taxes on came from CHINA, RUSSIA & UKRAINE. No FARA foreign agent charges? TWO SYSTEMS OF JUSTICE!\u201d All the scattershot all caps accusations really make for a convincing case. Yup. Shore do.<\/p>\n

I note none of them want to mention that the DA who signed off on the plea deal, David Weiss, was a Trump appointee. Ironically, he wasn\u2019t asked to step down when Joe Biden\u2019s administration started because he was already handling the Hunter Biden case, and it was felt that asking him to resign under the circumstances would be seen as partisan.<\/p>\n

So let the nuts scream. The Hunter Biden \u201ccase\u201d is dead.<\/p>\n

I suspect the saner Republican are all secretly feeling a sense of relief over all this. The Trump trial might loosen his grip on the party and they were facing the prospect of a candidate who 60% of all voters absolutely hated. Granted, the rest of their field is dominated by kooks and vicious Nazis, and they are probably just going to have to suffer a pasting come November, 2024, but they pretty much brought that upon themselves. Trump was already a liability before the Baier interview\u2014now he\u2019s flat-out radioactive.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s confused and crazy lies were bad enough\u2014even worse than the CNN \u2018town hall\u2019 that nearly destroyed that channel. But I can\u2019t imagine how he thought he could go on Faux and announce the 2020 election had been stolen. Baier had 787 million reasons to flatly contradict him, and he did.<\/p>\n

And for the first time, Trump actually looked scared. I think he is finally realizing the wheels of justice are not going to let him walk away unscathed.<\/p>\n

The trial is going to be complicated. I know a lot of people wanted the trial televised, but I don\u2019t see how that\u2019s possible. I want them to televise whatever they can of it, but there are legitimate complications.<\/p>\n

The 37 counts all involve Trump\u2019s mishandling and possible abuse of national security files\u2014some listed as top secret, and even the ones listed as \u201cconfidential\u201d have information that could put national interests and assets at risk. But it would be impossible to give Trump a fair trial (which he has an absolute right to) without letting the jury know the exact nature of those documents.<\/p>\n

That means the jurors and court officials will all have to have at least temporary national security clearance to handle top secret information. They will probably have to sign an agreement that if they discuss ANY of that with anyone, they will end up in a cell next to Donald\u2019s and probably be there after he dies.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ll also have to set up a sensitive compartmented information facility (SCIF) in order to keep the contents of the evidence and testimony pertaining to such evidence secret. They have no choice: the jury MUST know the exact nature of the secrets.<\/p>\n

But all the rest can and must be public. MAGAts will never read the transcripts because they have to stay safe in their psychotic little bubble, but fortunately, the large majority of Americans aren\u2019t MAGAts, and they want and deserve to know exactly what is going on, and how a verdict was reached.<\/p>\n

And don\u2019t forget: there\u2019s still the felony indictments for the New York tax scheme trial, and pending findings for January 6th<\/sup> and the efforts to overturn the Georgia election.<\/p>\n

Trump really is going to be \u201ctoo busy\u201d for once, and his monkeys are going to wear themselves out screaming about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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