Indicted. Again. And Again. And Again.

August 15, 2023 (Vol. 17 No. 33) - It seems like a broken record, doesn't it? Donald Trump has been indicted again. For those keeping score, the indictments handed down last night in state of Georgia mark the fourth time this year that the former president has been charged with engaging in criminal activity. In a New York state court in April, he was accused of falsifying business records as part of a scheme to hide an extramarital affair from voters before the 2016 election. Next, in a Florida federal court, he was charged under the Espionage Act with illegally retaining highly classified materials after leaving the presidency. Then the Lyin' King was charged by a Washington, D.C. federal grand jury in connection with the January 6 Capitol Insurrection. Last night, the state of Georgia weighed in with a 41-count indictment involving 19 people in a criminal racketeering conspiracy designed to steal that state's electoral votes from Joe Biden. Trump, himself, faces 13 of those counts. In total, the Defeated Former President now is facing 91 criminal counts in four jurisdictions. (Now that's what I call Making America Great Again!) What makes this latest round of indictments different is its breadth, casting a net over Trump's entire rat's nest of election deniers, including former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and several of his high profile attorneys. (I have to admit that I take particular pleasure in seeing that nut job Sidney Powell called before the bar.) But this is only the beginning. Trump needs to stand trial before American voters choose their next president in 2024. Trump and his cronies want to run out the clock in the hope he will be elected and in a position to pardon himself. That would destroy all semblance of American jurisprudence. As Special Prosecutor Jack Smith is arguing in the January 6 case, the people of the United States have as much a right to a speedy trial as does the defendant. There is also the ongoing threat by Trump and his MAGA mob to threaten and intimidate witnesses and jurors. He's already been warned twice by the judge in the D.C. case, yet he persists in attacking judges, prosecutors, witnesses and anyone else who tries to stand in his way. Trump would have you believe that his First Amendment rights are being violated. However, there is no protected speech when it is part of a criminal enterprise. The time for leniency is over. The time has come to revoke Donnie's bail. Justice demands it. That's it for now. Fear the Turtle.