Tuesday 15 August 2023

Trump swamped with new criminal charges

There are no real surprises any more in the Donald Trump saga. He is being showered with so many criminal charges that it's almost impossible to keep count. More than 80 anyway. Even if only one sticks he is in big trouble. If he is convicted on every charge, then bye bye Trump for ever. But in the meantime the United States of America is buuilding itself up for the biggest set of trials it has witnessed for decades. Trump in the dock here, Trump in the dock there, Trump in the dock everywhere. His large face and candyfloss hair is going to be seen in the defendant's chair dozens and dozens of times. When the trials begin there will be no other news. The whole country will be gripped. Just to put it bluntly: the man who wants and expects to become the 47th president of the United States in November 2024 has right now more chance of being sent to jail than to the White House. And that has landed the US in a mammoth crisis. What social eruption is it going to cause? Will his millions of fans watch quietly and accept that justice is being seen to be done? No, absolutely not. The latest series of indictments involving Trump and 18 others accuse them all of being part of a criminal conspiracy to overturn the election result in Georgia in 2020 - 41 separate charges! It's huge! Perhaps the biggest set of charges so far. The battles in the courtrooms are going to be unprecedented. The battles in the streets are going to be dangerously unpredictable.

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