Precaution
Trump is told he should hurry up and declare he’s running so that he can…make the world a better place? No, of course not; so that he can avoid criminal investigation. That’s a good reason to run for president!
Donald Trump “has to” announce a campaign for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024 in the next two weeks, a senior Trumpworld source said, if the former president wants to head off being indicted under the Espionage Act after the FBI search at Mar-a-Lago last week.
Awesome campaign slogan. “The Feds were hot on the trail so I announced my campaign to be president to foil them!”
In communications reviewed by the Guardian, the source indicated Trump needed to announce because politically it would be harder for the US Department of Justice (DoJ) to indict a candidate for office than a former president out of the electoral running.
Which is fascinating. It’s harder to indict a candidate for office? Shouldn’t that be reversed? Don’t we want to screen criminals out of the election process? I’m pretty sure I do.
It makes it easier for “No Collusion” Trump to portray any investigation as a partisan witch hunt of the Deep State (which he’s doing already anyhow. It would just make it all the more “true” for his followers. Announcing his candidacy doesn’t make him any less of a criminal, though you’d never know it, the way he hangs from that gold-plated cross of his. You just try combining a crown of thorns with that comb-over. And getting the nails to hold those tiny little hands? The stuff of Passion Play nightmares.
Article 17 of the Constitution says that a candidate for President cannot be put on trial.
I mean, that’s the Constitution of Gallifrey from Doctor Who, mind you.
Ever since Dr Johnson pointed it out, the last refuge of a scoundrel has been patriotism. It looks like we can now add ‘running for President’ to the list; at least in the US.
Isn’t this common behavior in certain third-world countries? Or am I imagining that?