A remarkable day at Fulton County jail as Trump's surrender looms
A remarkable day at Fulton County jail as Trump's surrender looms
A parade of Donald Trump’s co-defendants setting bond and surrendering at an Atlanta jail is beating a path of accountability that the ex-president and kingpin of the alleged election-meddling conspiracy will follow on one of the most jarring days in presidential history on Thursday.
Can you imagine being the police officer who has to take the most famous mugshot ever taken?
That just made me think of the time that Tom DeLay, the Speaker of the House, got arrested and took that big grinning mugshot. I haven't thought about that guy in almost 2 decades. What an asshole.
Edit: He was the Republican House Majority Leader, not the Speaker of the House. Still an asshole.
Eh, I kinda doubt this will be his last mugshot. Although I guess the first will still be most famous.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A parade of Donald Trump’s co-defendants setting bond and surrendering at an Atlanta jail is beating a path of accountability that the ex-president and kingpin of the alleged election-meddling conspiracy will follow on one of the most jarring days in presidential history on Thursday.
But the dramatic events in Fulton County so far have simply been an overture for the theatrics expected to unfold at the jail on Thursday when Trump, who holds significant leads in GOP primary polls, says he will surrender under his fourth criminal indictment.
In a court filing, special counsel Jack Smith’s prosecutors shed light on their investigation into whether two Trump employees at Mar-a-Lago gave false testimony to a grand jury about alleged efforts to delete incriminating security footage.
The accelerating developments at the jail and in the Fulton County courthouse are also providing a reality check not just about the consequences that may await those who allegedly helped Trump’s bid to stay in power, but also about the vast scale of the case, parts of which are being brought under complex racketeering laws often used against organized crime rings.
The ex-president’s legal troubles have left most of his major, if distantly behind, rivals struggling to find a way to exploit his potential liabilities as a possible nominee while trying to avoid alienating his supporters and other Republicans who may be open to another candidate but are still sympathetic to Trump.
The former chief of staff’s gambit is an early taste of the huge volume of litigation that will erupt from a case involving 19 co-defendants, which many experts believe will defy the hopes of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to get it to court before next year’s election.
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I can't wait to wake up and see all the Republican snowflakes falling