Is Donald Trump Running to Evade Prosecution? Former President Donald Trump is running for president to evade legal jeopardy, Democrats say.
Never in American history has a former president been indicted for criminal activities, let alone run for a second non-consecutive term while under indictment.
Trump’s attorneys want the trial in his classified documents case postponed until after the 2024 election to ensure the former president’s right to a fair trial.
They argue that having the trial before the election would interfere with Trump’s right to obtain an impartial jury.
Heading into Uncharted Territory
“The logistical and political hurdles the Trump team identifies aren’t imaginary. No comparable situation has ever occurred in U.S. history, a fact that Trump attributes to persecution but that’s better chalked up to his uniquely aberrant behavior. But the justice system has to balance interests, and the implications of being able to punt the trial just because he has voluntarily decided to run for president are troubling. It would suggest that as long as you are credibly seeking the most powerful position in the land, you can’t be held accountable for your actions,” Atlantic columnist David A. Graham writes. “If Trump wins, he would have the effective power to shut down any federal case against him. He and his allies are already laying the groundwork for further eroding the political insulation of the Department of Justice, which brought the documents case against him.”
Graham notes that Trump “frequently talks about how annoying it was for him to leave behind his comfortable life to be president, and he didn’t really seem to enjoy the job much.” He suggests that Trump’s re-election bid is about vendettas and settling scores.
By all accounts, Trump found himself in a situation unlike any previous chief executive after becoming president, with federal government agencies turning on him while he was in office based on fictitious claims, as the Durham Report said.
“For years, Democrats insisted that Trump had secret, illicit ties to Russia. Then, in the summer of 2017, Donald Trump Jr. abruptly disclosed a 2016 meeting he’d held with Russians promising ‘dirt’ on Hillary Clinton. ‘I … worked on this story for a year … and … he just … he tweeted it out,” one writer famously lamented,’” Graham continued. “Two years later, congressional Democrats launched an investigation to prove that the president was privately pressuring Ukraine to investigate the Bidens; Trump promptly asked China, publicly, to do so. He was accused of interfering secretly in the 2020 election; he started just doing it by tweet.”
Trump-Russia Claims Unsupported By Evidence
Donald Trump Jr. denied having knowledge the Russians who wished to meet him at Trump Tower in New York had offered to provide dirt on Hillary Clinton in sworn testimony before the House Intelligence Committee. He continued saying that the Russian woman he met offered him nothing of value. He noted that discussions about Hillary Clinton involved talking about some of her donors and how they were evading taxes through their business dealings in Russia. Nothing about Clinton’s emails was discussed.
As the Durham Report showed, the origins of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation was based on the Steele Dossier, which was rooted in the commentary of Igor Danchenko, a source who had been under FBI surveillance on suspicion of being a Russian spy.
Trump Classified Documents Case His Gravest Threat
In contrast, the prosecution can use Trump’s comments about not having declassified documents he had in his possession while he was president to establish criminal intent under the law when it comes to the Espionage Act.
If Trump wins, he can shut down the prosecution into the documents case, but that would open himself to a third impeachment based on the Richard Nixon precedent when he fired Archibald Cox in 1973. Democrats are already signaling they are hoping to impeach him again to bog him down.
If he loses, he could become the first American former president to go to jail because it is unlikely that Joe Biden, who has denied Trump protections normally afforded to former presidents, would pardon Trump.
The Donald Trump cases are uncharted territory, and Trump likely would have run for a second term even if he had not been indicted.
John Rossomando is a conservative defense and counterterrorism analyst and served as Senior Analyst for Counterterrorism at The Investigative Project on Terrorism for eight years. His work has been featured in numerous publications such as The American Thinker, The National Interest, National Review Online, Daily Wire, Red Alert Politics, CNSNews.com, The Daily Caller, Human Events, Newsmax, The American Spectator, TownHall.com, and Crisis Magazine. He also served as senior managing editor of The Bulletin, a 100,000-circulation daily newspaper in Philadelphia, and received the Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors first-place award for his reporting.
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