Donald Trump and his aide Walt Nauta asked a federal court in Florida to postpone the criminal trial in the Mar-a-Lago documents case and drop the current date, a filing by the former U.S. president's lawyers showed on Monday.
It was to be expected because you see delays and postponing a lot in criminal trials.
That said, I don’t know if he’s gonna be able to delay it through the whole election cycle. Judges usually don’t fuck around, and if Cannon does, she’ll get slapped down hard later on. It will be and idea, because she already got hammered on appeal and she might be looking at some far worse consequences this time.
The first part unfortunately has a chance to work. But then what? Polls show trump is not nearly as praised as he was by a bunch of ppl back then. It isn’t even clear that he will be the GOP candidate. So let’s say they get it delayed until election results are public, chances are he loses, they wasted a bunch of time, trump and judge cannon can get hammered on appeal, and he is still stuck with solid time in prison.
I mean I get your point, and while I do think it’s important to follow the law, it’s also important that no one is above the law; not even a president. But in my mind chances are so slim for him to get out of this, I just can’t see it.
Trump is a gambler. He’s a bad gambler, as his many failed businesses can attest. I mean, how do you lose money on a casino in Atlantic City? He’s also at the point in his life where he seems to assume he’s always correct and anyone naysaying him is just out to get him. So he probably won’t listen to people telling him that this gamble has a good chance of not paying off. In fairness, he never should have won in 2016 anyway, so that’s probably not helping him listen to people who would give him the best advice.
It was to be expected because you see delays and postponing a lot in criminal trials.
That said, I don’t know if he’s gonna be able to delay it through the whole election cycle. Judges usually don’t fuck around, and if Cannon does, she’ll get slapped down hard later on. It will be and idea, because she already got hammered on appeal and she might be looking at some far worse consequences this time.
His strategy is to delay it until he wins election again (so he thinks) and then claims Executive Privilege against prosecution.
The worst part is that given our justice system’s track record, it might work.
The first part unfortunately has a chance to work. But then what? Polls show trump is not nearly as praised as he was by a bunch of ppl back then. It isn’t even clear that he will be the GOP candidate. So let’s say they get it delayed until election results are public, chances are he loses, they wasted a bunch of time, trump and judge cannon can get hammered on appeal, and he is still stuck with solid time in prison.
I mean I get your point, and while I do think it’s important to follow the law, it’s also important that no one is above the law; not even a president. But in my mind chances are so slim for him to get out of this, I just can’t see it.
Trump is a gambler. He’s a bad gambler, as his many failed businesses can attest. I mean, how do you lose money on a casino in Atlantic City? He’s also at the point in his life where he seems to assume he’s always correct and anyone naysaying him is just out to get him. So he probably won’t listen to people telling him that this gamble has a good chance of not paying off. In fairness, he never should have won in 2016 anyway, so that’s probably not helping him listen to people who would give him the best advice.