Pubs need to work out what they want and how early they want to do the deep soul searching/reality check needed that goes with it. There is plenty of polling and indication that lots of republicans want Trump but don't think he is the one to beat Biden. Everyone needs to do their own thinking on that and they better get going. If you want Trump to be the nominee but not win the general election, well, we just saw that, and it sucks. If, however, one thinks Trump can win the nomination and also win the general, well, okay, then they have done their thinking and there we have it. And good luck. For a lot of obvious reasons people harken back to Trump's 2016 race to see what kind of animal we got going. Thats okay. But he also lost a race to Joe Biden. Ron may not be ready for prime time, and we will probably end out electing someone for president who is not ready for prime time regardless of whether dem or pub. Not being ready for prime time is not necessarily a barrier to becoming president. It does not help but it is not a barrier. Think about not-ready-for-prime time Ron running against not-ready-for-prime-time Kamala. heh.
Also the wildcard is what do the Dems do? Roll Biden out propped up like reagan in his second term haha Dems are putting on a brave face but they are so screwed and their only chance is a fracturued GOP with Ron, Youngkin et all fighting to take over from trump. Kamala Harris basically means that if no Biden then the field is wide open and it ws a shit show for 2016 and 2020. This might be the first election in my lifetime in 2024 I sit back and watch and dont vote haha
I won't digress too much but the progressives have seen this coming for a long time and took Andrew Cuomo out. He was on track to be the dems good strong candidate but they took him out. He would have been a force to deal with. But they damaged him and took him out. Yeh. He brought it on himself but whether such things that did get looked at or not are a matter of political choice. Think Teddy Kennedy. They wanted him so overlooked as needed.
I was meh on Cuomo.. maybe because Chris/Fredo was so fucking annoying... I am sure Dems are tryingt o figure out how the white male they think is a good candidate can be presented without alienating their base...
Let's see the prosecution. We all get that Alvin wants the indictment. We also get that he does not want to prosecute the case. So the games begin where he basks in the indictment but then pretends to be deferring prosecution to help the other cases. Not clear how he can pull that off now. Not sure how that will square the right of a defendant to have a speedy trial per the constitution. Usually prosecutors deal with that by sealing the indictment and then holding off on the actual charging but if they book and charge Trump the clock starts.
This is probably a dumb question, isn't there some tricky way his lawyers can appeal the indictment? I can't for the life of me remember who it happened to, but I could swear I remember some big case that happened in. Someone on Wall Street. Or maybe it was dropped. Something.
Ok, that might have been a Federal case. Can a federal indictment be challenged? Yes. The most obvious and most common challenge to an indictment is showing the allegations are not true at a trial. But what about challenging an indictment before trial? There are a number of different challenges that can be made to an indictment before a case gets to trial. Such challenges will be very fact-intensive based on the individual circumstances of each case. Here are some examples that an indictment can be challenged for: failing to provide sufficient detail to a defendant as to the basis and nature of the charges against him; failing to set forth an actual violation of law; failing to plead all of the elements of a crime; alleging a crime outside the statute of limitations; bringing a criminal case in an improper venue; the prosecutor’s failure to accurately advise the grand jury on the applicable law during the grand jury phase of a case, or other prosecutorial misconduct. While a successful challenge to an indictment is a rare occurrence, a skilled federal criminal defense attorney will often assert challenges to an indictment for other reasons as well. For example, the prosecutors may be ordered to provide more evidence, or to provide the evidence earlier than they otherwise would be required.
Yeah, I think The NY Times scuttled any chance of keeping the indictment under seal through April. I would expect Trump to slow the proceedings to crawl as he makes his case in public, as is his usual way. I don’t expect any of this to go speedy. I think a lot of this will depend on whether or not the payment to the playboy playmate is part of the case. I don’t think Stormy gets much sympathy in a courtroom or the court of public opinion. But that other woman is downright wholesome and if she becomes a character in this show then this thing can take a turn from what most of us expect.