👋 hey! I just had a take too dark for JVL! (Sorry for the non sequitur)
People think it would be bad if Merrick Garland tells Jack Smith to stand down on his cases due to the election. But Imagine by some miracle Merrick Garland actually lets Jack Smith take the Jan 6th case to trial during the fall. And it takes Trump off the campaign t…
👋 hey! I just had a take too dark for JVL! (Sorry for the non sequitur)
People think it would be bad if Merrick Garland tells Jack Smith to stand down on his cases due to the election. But Imagine by some miracle Merrick Garland actually lets Jack Smith take the Jan 6th case to trial during the fall. And it takes Trump off the campaign trail for a month plus!!! What happens when Trump is out of the public eye? His polls go up. What if the verdict gets handed down the week after the election, is guilty, but he won it fair and square because all people saw that last month was Biden on the stump doing normal things!
I don't think it would necessarily play out that way. Sure, Trump would be in a courtroom, but he would still be in the public eye. Every detail of the case will be front page news, all day, every day, and whenever Trump did get out on the campaign trail he'd be releasing tons of pent up rage and craziness. Moreover, with that kind of news cycle everyone in politics and media is going to be re-litigating the details of 1/6, forcing Republicans to defend him and allowing Democrats to spotlight the worst thing Trump has ever done. If, by some miracle, we actually have this trial take place before the election, I think it would be a really heavy hit for Trump.
👋 hey! I just had a take too dark for JVL! (Sorry for the non sequitur)
People think it would be bad if Merrick Garland tells Jack Smith to stand down on his cases due to the election. But Imagine by some miracle Merrick Garland actually lets Jack Smith take the Jan 6th case to trial during the fall. And it takes Trump off the campaign trail for a month plus!!! What happens when Trump is out of the public eye? His polls go up. What if the verdict gets handed down the week after the election, is guilty, but he won it fair and square because all people saw that last month was Biden on the stump doing normal things!
I mean…Falcon Heavy here I come!
I don't think it would necessarily play out that way. Sure, Trump would be in a courtroom, but he would still be in the public eye. Every detail of the case will be front page news, all day, every day, and whenever Trump did get out on the campaign trail he'd be releasing tons of pent up rage and craziness. Moreover, with that kind of news cycle everyone in politics and media is going to be re-litigating the details of 1/6, forcing Republicans to defend him and allowing Democrats to spotlight the worst thing Trump has ever done. If, by some miracle, we actually have this trial take place before the election, I think it would be a really heavy hit for Trump.