This post is dedicated to my friend and former colleague, a fellow I have known for 22 years who has contended ever since Donald Trumpâs first impeachment that the former POTUS needs to be hauled away in cuffs and leg irons.
It looks as though the good guys are gunning for Trump and will issue indictments for criminal conduct. That is my message to my friend, Peter, who lives far away in Australia but who is following the machinations of the American political and judicial systems as closely as any American I know.
The House select committee appears ready to issue referrals for indictments based on Trumpâs incitement of the 1/6 assault on our Capitol Building. The attorney generalâs office has handed over investigations into the insurrection and the pilfering of classified documents from the White House as Trump was leaving the place for his refuge in Florida to a special counsel who is moving at breakneck speed to finish what the DOJ has begun.
The Fulton County (Ga.) district attorney is working on her own probe into whether Trump violated state law by pressuring Georgia elections officials to âfindâ enough votes to give the stateâs Electoral College votes to Trump rather than to Joe Biden, who them in the 2020 presidential election.
This is all getting quite dicey for the ex-president.
They wonât slap the cuffs on him when the indictments arrive. Thus, my friend might be disappointed that Trump isnât hauled away in a paddy wagon. I wasnât prepared to say that indictments are a sure thing. Theyâre looking more certain all the time.