The Rule Of Law

Dude is feeling the heat on his trail pic.twitter.com/cYePsDFUJv

— jon steinman (@jonsteinman) June 10, 2022

The best response to Trump’s blithering nonsense is the case laid out in the first hearing by the Jan 6th committee.

Trump had the right to go to court over the election; even to go to court 60 times.  But when those 60 cases ended, his power to complain, except verbally, was over.  His right to protest, was exhausted. His right to demand any change to the outcome of the election, was at an end.

So he can proclaim with his dying breath that it was the crime of the century and the greatest hoax ever perpetrated in the history of the world and the grossest miscarriage of law and justice known to all of humankind.  He just can't engage the machinery of government to change what he couldn't change in a court of law.

But he did.  And that likely arises to a criminal conspiracy, probably even a seditious conspiracy (charging the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers is likely just an opening act.  They were not the top of the conspiracy pyramid.  But charging them can make the almost unique prosecution of sedition into a gateway to the truly unique prosecution of a former President.).

So there's before; and there's after.  Trump can claim 'til the cows come home that he was robbed.  He just can't prove it, and even if he could it wouldn't justify what he did.

And that's where we are now.  Just because we the people don't have all the facts yet, doesn't mean those facts aren't known.  The Committee hearings will help us understand what happened, and why it was wrong.  If the DOJ decides to prosecute Trump, that understanding will be crucial; because the only defense Trump really has is in the court of public opinion.

At least, that will be the only defense if DOJ does their job right.