{"id":46995,"date":"2021-03-14T01:41:53","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T01:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=46995"},"modified":"2021-03-14T01:41:53","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T01:41:53","slug":"is-trump-scarred-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=46995","title":{"rendered":"Is Trump scarred forever?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_46903\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46903\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/1c97d8bca656bb605d8bcbb9a5e3711a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-46903\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/1c97d8bca656bb605d8bcbb9a5e3711a-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/1c97d8bca656bb605d8bcbb9a5e3711a-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/1c97d8bca656bb605d8bcbb9a5e3711a.jpg 703w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46903\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">REUTERS\/Octavio Jones<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>By JOHN KANELIS<\/strong> \/ <a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump&#8217;s post-presidential existence cannot possibly end well.<\/p>\n<p>I say that without any knowledge of whether he will be indicted by two states that are pursuing criminal charges against him. Even if no indictments will be part of Trump&#8217;s future, my gut tells me he is likely to be scarred forever by the pursuit of the Fulton County, Ga., district attorney and the Manhattan DA up yonder in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>The Fulton County DA is pursuing whether Trump violated state law by pressuring the Georgia secretary of state to &#8220;find&#8221; enough votes to swing the state&#8217;s 2020 presidential election result from favoring President Biden to favoring Trump. This investigation appears to be fairly straightforward and reasonably uncomplicated.<\/p>\n<p>Fulton County DA Fani Willis is an experienced prosecutor and she has vowed to spare no effort in following the evidence that she will present to a grand jury which will decide whether to indict Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The Manhattan case, led by Cyrus Vance Jr., is a whole lot more complicated. As I understand it, Vance is examining whether Trump violated campaign finance laws in paying off a porn star to keep quiet about a sexual liaison she and Trump allegedly had in 2006. Oh, and Trump denies it happened &#8212; but he paid her 130 grand anyway! Go figure. He&#8217;s even hired a prosecutor experienced in <em>racketeering<\/em> cases to help him make the case.<\/p>\n<p>I cannot possibly know whether either prosecutorial team is going to bring formal charges against Trump.<\/p>\n<p>However, my sense of understanding of how history looks back on political figures tells me that historians are going to judge Trump&#8217;s time since leaving office harshly. That prosecutors even are considering whether to file charges suggests to me that Trump will be <em>scarred for life.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com Donald Trump&#8217;s post-presidential existence cannot possibly end well. I say that without any knowledge of whether he will be indicted by two states that are pursuing criminal charges against him. Even if no indictments will be part of Trump&#8217;s future, my gut tells me he is likely to be scarred &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=46995\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is Trump scarred forever?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1424,9646],"class_list":["post-46995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-racketeering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46996,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46995\/revisions\/46996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}