Don’t look now, but Donald Trump’s troubles just keep growing and growing and growing…
Politics
Last week in Fulton County, Georgia, Trump’s troubles took a turn for the worse when an old trick up his sleeve came back to haunt him.
You may remember that in a last-ditch effort to save face after losing the 2020 presidential election (and in hopes of illegally reversing the results), Trump called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and used every trick in the book to pressure him to “find” enough votes to cancel Biden’s victory in the state and crown Trump the rightful winner. Well, too bad for Trump, but Atlanta District Attorney Fani Willis is currently making plans to convene a special grand jury dedicated solely to the allegations of election tampering. Or, in other words, Ms. Willis is about to take ‘The Donald’ down.
According to The New York Times, the case against Trump doesn’t look good for him. The recording of Trump’s January phone call to Raffensperger urging him to “find 11,780 votes” — enough to reverse the state’s election result — is only one of the myriad pieces of proof that could send him to prison.
“For the office of the secretary of state to ‘recalculate’ would mean we would somehow have to fudge the numbers,” Raffensperger said. “The president was asking me to do something that I knew was wrong, and I was not going to do that.”
Regarding Trump’s call, Raffensperger added: “I felt then — and still believe today — that this was a threat.”
If all that wasn’t enough, Trump’s troubles doubled on Tuesday when a judge stymied ‘The Donald’ and his plan to muck up a congressional investigation into his role in the January 6th Capitol Hill insurrection.
Before leaving office, Trump classified all documents detailing his actions and conversations leading up to the January 6th attack in the hopes of keeping his role in the MAGA melee’ forever secret. However, President Biden reversed Trump’s decision and decided to release the documents to Congress to aid them in their investigation — prompting an angry Trump to cry foul, play the victim, and file a lawsuit in an attempt to get his way.
Regrettably (for him), Trump’s troubles took a sharp nose-dive when Judge Tanya S. Chutkan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued a 39-page ruling denying Trump’s bid — and agreeing that all documents and records related to his role on January 6th be released to Congress for investigation.
“Mr. Trump does not acknowledge the deference owed to the incumbent president’s judgment,” Judge Chutkan wrote. “His position that he may override the expressed will of the executive branch appears to be premised on the notion that his executive power exists in perpetuity. But, presidents are not kings, and plaintiff is not president.”
OUCH!!!
I thought New York would have got him by now. But I want to see somebody take him down before the next election. We cannot let this fool get back in office.