{"id":56889,"date":"2024-04-08T00:01:11","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T00:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56889"},"modified":"2024-04-08T00:01:11","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T00:01:11","slug":"let-the-trial-begin-and-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56889","title":{"rendered":"Let the trial begin … and end"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Eight days from now a judge in New York City is going to bang a gavel and call for the beginning of a trial.<\/p>\n

It won’t be an ordinary trial. The criminal defendant will be a former president of the United States. He will make history by being the first ex-POTUS ever to stand trial.<\/p>\n

The ex-POTUS has three more trials awaiting him once this one concludes. The others are more consequential in terms of the charges leveled against him. First things first, though.<\/p>\n

The NYC trial is going to take the former POTUS off the campaign trail for as long as it takes to reach a conclusion. He’ll be in court listening to testimony alleging how he misused campaign funds to pay off an adult film actress to keep quiet about a one-night stand the two of them had, but which the former POTUS said didn’t happen.<\/p>\n

Go figure.<\/p>\n

The defendant cut a check for the actress totaling 130 grand to shut her up.<\/p>\n

This might not be the biggest legal deal facing the former POTUS. Still, it’s pretty damn big. District Attorney Alvin Bragg has to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant did what has been alleged. It’s a criminal case, after all, so the bar is set high.<\/p>\n

I will not shy away from — or apologize<\/em> for — my hope that DA Bragg delivers the goods to the jury that will decide this matter. I want the former POTUS to be convicted of the crime that has been alleged. I also want him locked up and kept out of public view. He is an existential menace to the nation he seeks to lead once more.<\/p>\n

God help us if there are enough stupid Americans out there to put him back into the Oval Office.<\/p>\n

In many crucial ways, this is the most important trial in U.S. history. It’s going to make for the highest political drama any of have ever witnessed.<\/p>\n\n

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