Call Me Partisan…

It's very strange how much coverage of the 2024 election treats Trump's mounting legal tangles as a quirky little wrinkle to his candidacy. Can you imagine if any other presidential candidate was running while under one indictment, let alone possibly four?

— Schooley ♟️ (@Rschooley) April 28, 2023

You'd think people would be more generally upset about this. https://t.co/cwTa7JdA5U

— Schooley ♟️ (@Rschooley) April 28, 2023

But Trump just isn’t keeping me up nights.

Did the Biden campaign commission this https://t.co/b9uOauNxRF

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 28, 2023

I mean, I’d be upset about it if Hillary Clinton was the Democratic candidate again. Actually, even then…

BREAKING: Trump tonight stopped at a diner, met a woman convicted in connection to Jan. 6, hugged her and signed the backpack she carried to the Capitol https://t.co/7BVS5qk3Dl

— Isaac Arnsdorf (@iarnsdorf) April 28, 2023

The four trials is just the start.

We're so close to events that some times it's hard to see their significance. The former VPOTUS just testified in a criminal investigation of his former POTUS. That is basically breathtaking.

— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) April 27, 2023

Trump is the mob boss with absolutely no power to impose omertà on anyone. I mean, over 30 lawyers have testified in the various investigations already. This is getting as dizzyingly complicated as Watergate, but that never got beyond a Congressional investigation. The closest we’ve come to this situation since Nixon was Iran-Contra, and Poppy Bush shut that down as one of his last Presidential acts. So this situation is unique in many ways, involving two separate states, and two separate federal investigations.

And Trump can no more stop it than he can stop the sunrise.

Is it concerning that there are people who would still vote for Trump? Eh; I knew people who went to their graves convinced (if you’d asked them) that Nixon was railroaded. Even Ted Kennedy finally agreed with Ford’s pardon; but I never have. Life is never so simply Manichaean. There is never a point where “everyone” agrees that justice was done and the “bad guys” were punished. Hell,  no one ever even agrees on who the bad guys were.