Republican strategists believe former President Donald Trump will be indicted by Attorney General Merrick Garland within 2-3 months after the Nov. 8 midterm elections.
With the 2024 presidential election season expected to ramp up within months of the midterms, most believe that Garland wouldn’t prosecute Trump once the next election season is well underway to avoid the appearance of an indictment being politically motivated.
Though Republicans warns that an indictment of Trump will further polarize the already fractured political climate, Garland has been under intense pressure from Democrats to go after the former president.
“A couple of weeks after the election, I assume that Garland will indict Trump,” a veteran Republican aide told The Hill, while a second told the outlet that being prosecuted “could actually end up helping the [former] president politically.”
“People have been talking about splintering support and dampening enthusiasm among Republican voters for him. An indictment could actually galvanize and reunify Republicans around him,” the aide said.
The prosecution of Trump would be either over his alleged mishandling of classified documents and possible cover up of it, or over his actions leading up to and during January 6, 2021.
Jeffrey Robbins, a former federal prosecutor, said the strongest case against Trump would be for violating the Espionage Act in connection to the Mar-a-Lago documents.
“I think that the Espionage Act violations are relatively straightforward, even self-evident, and that the Department likely already has substantial evidence of obstruction of justice,” he told The Hill.
Trump warned last month that if he’s indicted “you’d have problems in this country the likes of which perhaps we’ve never seen before… I don’t think the people of the United States would stand for it.”
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Fake news. People spread fake news like this bec they don’t want a Republican president. Fake news is what ruined our country
Nu nu. Not the end of the world.
We’ve got Pence, DeSantis, Pompeo, etc… for 2024.
The win-win situation for the Republicans is that: 1) the Democrats go to the trouble of indicting him but are unable to produce credible evidence, leading all but the most fanatic “progressives” to include it was a politically motivated show trial; 2) the trial helps convince Trump to NOT run leaving the Republicans in position to run someone who can lead them to a landslide victory over the WOKE barbarians (leaving Trump as a vindicated senior statesman)
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“are unable to produce credible evidence,”
The evidence for Espionage, grand larceny of government property, and obstruction of justice is overwhelming. Many of the rest of us who did what he did would already be serving long sentences in Federal prison.