Wednesday 2 August 2023

Latest Trump indictment is a massive moment in US history

It is impossible to overestimate the significance of the decision to charge the 45th president of the United States with conspiracy over his alleged involvement in the January 6 2021 assault on the Capitol. It is such a massive moment in US history that his two other indictments seem almost of passing interest. The president of the United States being indicted for trying unlawfully and fraudulently to overturn the democratic vote in the 2020 election?! It's almost beyond belief even though we have all been expecting it ever since Jack Smith was appointed special counsel to investigate the January 6 attack. Trump must for once be seriously worried about his future but he still rants on about how the Justice Department is weaponising the legal system to stop him from becoming president again. A lot of people will believe him. If he is found guilty of the latest indictment, no one seems to have any concept of what this will mean for the country and in particular for the 2024 presidency. If he is acquitted, no one seems to have any real concept of what this will mean for the country and in particular for the 2024 presidency. Well perhaps not the latter so much. If he is acquitted of the conspiracy charge but convicted of hoarding classified documents as per the previous indictment, then he will become the Republican nominee for the 2024 election and probably end up as president. I don't believe, I can't believe, that if Trump is convicted of conspiracy he will be back in the White House. Meanwhile all the adversaries of the United States in the world are looking on and relishing the prospect of the superpower in a state of political and potentially anarchic chaos.

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