DO IT. NOW!

The recent election result accomplished several things:

One. The crazies are not in charge of the legislative branch. Marjorie Taylor Greene will not rule Congress. God did not choose Douglas Mastriano to be the Governor of Pennsylvania (even though DeSantis may believe that he was "Chosen”), the majority of the country rejects Alito's personal religious approach to Constitutional rights, and, perhaps best of all, election deniers took a beating at the polls.

Two. Perhaps most important of all, Trump took a beating when he was outed for encouraging the January 6 insurrection riot, for stealing classified and nonclassified government records, for signing willful lies to court petitions, for trying to corrupt election officials, and for participating in the creation of false electors. He responded with outrage to the charges. He insisted they were a hoax and this was a witch hunt. He expected not only his base, but a majority of the country to buy what he had to sell. But he failed. He lost the last election by 7 million votes, and if he ran today I believe the number would be double that. He has inspired Democrats, Independents, and blocks in the Republican party to make known their disrespect of him. And as each day passes, more of the Great Grifter’s misconduct becomes known: excessive hotel bills paid to property he owns, illegal interference with the IRS, and my guess is there is more to come.

Aside from the fact that his core of haters and election deniers will not govern, I suggest that his barely veiled threats that the country “will not stand for" his indictment is total bullshit.

Readers of mine know that I have no doubts that Trump is guilty of a mélange of felonies and that the only question remaining was whether Garland concluded that prosecuting a losing presidential candidate made us look like a Banana Republic. My own view has been consistently to the contrary: a failure to prosecute this crook would make us look weak, insincere, and like a country being led by politicians who are afraid of their shadow and have abandoned the rule of law.

Would an indictment yield harsh words from the crazies? Will there be threats of violence? For sure. Will those threats be legal? Many of them will not be. It's a crime to make a threat using the means of interstate commerce. ‘’True threats’’ are not protected by the First Amendment and the crazies who say otherwise are either ignorant or sophisticated liars. 

Does our government have the guts, the wherewithal, the determination to prosecute the crazies? I suggest it does, and if Merrick Garland needs more help, he should get it. If it takes thousands of prosecutors to enforce the law and protect our Constitution, then so be it. We have done that and a lot more in the past and if we must do it again then we must do it again.

I'm glad the Great Grifter is going to announce his candidacy tomorrow or the next day. The more he speaks, the more headlines he produces, the more attention will be paid to his criminality and the greater will be the demand on the Department of Justice to do justice.

Lock him up. Now.

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