Richly deserved
Members of Congress reacted to news of former President Trump’s indictment by a Manhattan grand jury with a mixture of shock, outrage, fear, uncertainty and celebration.
It’s the first time in U.S. history a former president has been indicted — a shock to the 2024 election and a move likely to harden pro- and anti-Trump sentiments well beyond Washington.
You know, there’s a reason for that – most former presidents hadn’t committed multiple crimes, some of them in full public view. Mind you there have been some very iffy ones – Grant and Harding to name two, plus of course Nixon. But the florid array of Trump’s crimes, the many decades they have behind them, the accompanying fact that he did his best to steal an election – it all adds up to make him Top Crook.
Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), a close Trump ally, is already fundraising off the anger around the indictment.
- “THIS JUST IN: PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS BEEN INDICTED,” reads a text from his campaign, calling it “unfair on so many levels.”
- The text includes a link to a WinRed page that says Trump was indicted “for being a patriot.”
No, that’s not it.
CNN is now saying that “a source close to the case” reports that there are more than 30 criminal counts listed in the indictment. Thirty!
Did Grant actually commit crimes? Or did he just fail to prevent others from committing them?
Trump’s more patriotic than Vance… He merely wants to be king; Vance actually thinks it’s a good idea to have one.
As to Grant, yeah, that’s always been my impression. Much better at being a drunk and a general; kind of out of his depths when it came to Washington.
James, I’ll take a wild guess and say that there are multiple related documents, so one charge for each of those, and probably several related or alternative charges for each document. I’ll bet it’s stacking.
For some people this will be the equivalent of Jesus facing Pontius Pilate, Trump’s Passion Play. I can’t for the life of me find any redeeming qualities in Trump that would lead to such a blind, religious, fervor. He does make statements, such as “drain the swamp,” but he doesn’t do anything like that other than take the valuables found in the swamp and enrich himself.
It’s just nuts.
Harding at least has the good taste to die in office. Trump would have been wise to follow that precedent, but wisdom and Trump don’t mix.