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More and more Americans believe Trump must be punished. But will it ever happen?
NIGHTMARE: Justice Minister Merrick Garland must decide whether to prosecute Donald Trump after the hearings in Congress. More and more people believe the evidence is so overwhelming that there is no way around it, even though it could end in a major political nightmare. Photo: Nicholas Kamm / AFP
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Friday, June 24, 2022 – 22:07
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After five episodes of it live thriller about the coup in the United States, there are so many smoking guns in the room that the smoke alarm howls. There is not even talk of “smoking guns”, but tangible evidence from countless witnesses who have seen and heard the gun being fired. Donald Trump tried to reverse a legal election and prevent a peaceful change of power.
“Just say the election was corrupt and left the rest to us,” was the message to Jeffrey Rosen, the Attorney General who took over after the faithful William Barr finally resigned. Even for him, the border went by coup. When Rosen also refused to fabricate election fraud, Trump wanted to replace him with an incompetent useful idiot who was willing to agree to the scam.
The undue pressure on The Department of Justice is one of the hearings’ most smoking guns, Trump’s attempt to put in people who were willing to break the law for him is also reminiscent of Nixon’s last desperate days. But it is questionable whether Trump’s ruthless brutality makes an even greater impression on the many viewers who follow the live drama; how Trump and his accomplices cynically ruined the lives of innocent election officials, hung them out by name and sent the mob after them. Trump’s bullying regime terrorized and threatened ordinary Americans who just did their job.
Now he is felled by his own. The witnesses are Republicans, they are his immediate family and associates, who say that Trump not only lost his footing in the weeks after the election. It was all planned long in advance, and when he did not get what he wanted, he sent the mob to Congress. As he said while watching the attack on TV; Maybe Mike Pence deserves to be hanged?
He’s the problem
Yet few believe he will be prosecuted. It’s not just the general wisdom of the comment fields, where those who were so skeptical that he could not win in 2016, are now just as skeptical that he will not only go free, but will win the next presidential election. Fortunately, the latter will never happen.
This is a nightmare for Joe Biden’s Minister of Justice, Merrick Garland, who will have to consider in the autumn whether sufficient evidence has been presented to start an investigation. Several of the accomplices will undoubtedly be prosecuted without anyone shedding a tear for them, but investigating and targeting a former president is a greater challenge, even in normal times. In today’s United States, it seems almost impossible.
