Friday, September 30, 2022

Blowing Up The Off Ramps

According to WaPo, this is why Kise is no longer signing any pleadings in the Florida case (where he was hired for his "expertise"). Trump didn't like this advice, and so, the reasoning goes, doesn't want Kise doing anything to earn his retainer.

Tout le Twitter is still in a snit because Cannon revised her order for the SM again.  It's a rather pointless snit.  DOJ isn't stopped from doing anything,   In fact, let's stop and examine the problem with "legal Twitter" a minute. On "Legal Twitter" you can get everything from this:
To this: Which is correct? DOJ can't appeal; or DOJ has appealed?*  As for "delays," anybody noticed how long Dominion has been in court against Lindell? When does that go to trial? Nobody cares, because it isn't Trump, who we must SMASH SMASH SMASH!!!!!

Yeah, take a breath.

I saw someone else (another "ex-prosecutor" getting cable news face time) say this new order stops DOJ from its criminal investigation, again.  No.  The 11th Circuit was quite definitive on that point.  And really, all that's going on now (as I said before) is Trump is dragging this dead cat across the nation's living room, back and forth, while he tries to delay....what, exactly?  DOJ has its criminal investigation; what more does it want?  They have the documents.  Trump isn't really acting to recover them, which is supposedly why he started this mess (he fears a rule 41 hearing more than death itself, because it will put this case back before the magistrate who issued the warrant).  He's stopped saying the documents were planted, stopped whining about how he declassified them all (it doesn't matter, he's not getting them back, it's not a defense of the Espionage Act, etc., etc., etc.)  He's not doing anything even vaguely sensible, and he started this fight! He is simply, as Kise advised him, pissing off the DOJ.

Yeah, the government probably would have been happy to get all the docs back, once upon a time. But that train left the station a long, long time ago.  Now there's an Espionage Act investigation; probably an obstruction of justice investigation, too; and anything else DOJ thinks the facts will fit (you never plead one crime when 12 or more will do.  You never know what still stick on the wall in the jury room.).

And Trump thinks he's invisible and bulletproof.  (Narrator:  He isn't.)

I don't care what the fuck the Judge does now.  DOJ got what they needed (the Judge never had authority nor reason to block their criminal investigation) and Trump is burning billable hours (and Special Master time, and probably vendor time, eventually) pursuing...what, exactly?  Making the SM's job harder and longer is not, in any way, in Trump's interest; except it prevents him from being exposed in the coming criminal cases. Well, kinda protects him; but not really.  If he doesn't expose himself in this case, he'll be exposed if the DOJ brings criminal charges. That protection won't last long in the civil case, either. But that's his fault for filing this suit. What does delay buy him?

Not. A. Goddamned. Thing.  Except the enmity of the Justice Department.

Me, I'd never pursue that purchase.  That Trump wants to is just fine with me.  🍿

*And if DOJ loses this appeal, so what?  Things take a bit longer than they should have.  The SM is right; the judge is wrong.  Unless the 11th interferes, the Judge has the final world. Welcome to federal court.  Please keep your hands inside the car at all times.  Keep your seat belts fastened. It's going to be a bumpy ride.
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