{"id":55569,"date":"2023-08-04T00:03:09","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T00:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=55569"},"modified":"2023-08-04T00:03:09","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T00:03:09","slug":"trump-plea-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=55569","title":{"rendered":"Is a deal possible?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>What you are about to read from this blogger isn&#8217;t an original thought; it comes from a former Republican governor and one-time GOP presidential candidate.<\/p>\n<p>That said, I want to reveal what he expressed.<\/p>\n<p>Former Ohio Gov. John Kasich has tossed out a possibility that &#8212; upon some reflection &#8212; isn&#8217;t nearly as goofy as some observers might suggest it is. Kasich was careful to stipulate that he isn&#8217;t &#8220;predicting&#8221; this would happen, but believes it remains a distinct possibility.<\/p>\n<p>It is that Trump&#8217;s lawyers, who must defend him against multiple indictments on multiple fronts, might want to cut a deal with federal special counsel Jack Smith. Kasich suggests that Trump&#8217;s lawyers well might determine that Trump cannot win the classified documents case or the 1\/6 insurrection matter.<\/p>\n<p>What does he do? Well, Kasich said it might be that Trump&#8217;s legal team could suggest he cuts a deal with prosecutors that would include a guilty plea and his dropping out of the 2024 race for president.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s already pleaded not guilty to all the federal indictments, and to the New York indictment over the hush money payment he made to the adult film star. He&#8217;s likely to plead not guilty to an indictment that everyone on Earth believes is coming from the Fulton County, Ga., district attorney on another case involving election tampering.<\/p>\n<p>However, criminal defendants have changed their pleas before. The alternative might be serious prison time if he&#8217;s convicted, say, of obstruction in the case involving the 1\/6 assault on our government.<\/p>\n<p>Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a one-time U.S. attorney, said recently that prosecutors would rather refuse to bring a case than bring one they cannot win. Jack Smith, therefore, well might have the goods on Trump to all but guarantee a conviction.<\/p>\n<p>It makes me go &#8220;hmmm.&#8221; Is there an alternative, therefore, to prison for the former president? Looks like it to me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/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>What you are about to read from this blogger isn&#8217;t an original thought; it comes from a former Republican governor and one-time GOP presidential candidate. That said, I want to reveal what he expressed. Former Ohio Gov. John Kasich has tossed out a possibility that &#8212; upon some reflection &#8212; isn&#8217;t nearly as goofy as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=55569\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is a deal possible?<\/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":[8],"tags":[10010,2280,7419,9655],"class_list":["post-55569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","tag-classified-documents","tag-insurrection","tag-maga","tag-trump-indictment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55569","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=55569"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55572,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55569\/revisions\/55572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}