Let’s Play a Game. What If Trump Were Still President?

Let’s start off November by playing a little game. Let’s pretend that somehow, God only knows how, Trump had won the 2020 election and was going into the fourth and final year of his second term.

So, the game we’re going to play is to ask what would be different about what is going on now as opposed to what would have been going on then?

First and foremost, of course, there would have been no January 6th. No January 6th, no Jack Smith. No Jack Smith, no Federal indictment for trying to overthrow the government and no federal indictment for storing classified documents in a Mar-a-Lago toilet.

On the other hand, the current trial in New York would still be going on, because that affair is based on a civil lawsuit against a business entity — the Trump Organization — and is being heard in state court.

In fact, the most serious legal threat to Trump-o is the Georgia case, which is also a state case and would still be live and active even if Orange Shithead were still #45, not running to be #47.

The consensus seems to be that a sitting President can’t be indicted for a federal crime because such an indictment would conflict with the President’s role as manager of the Executive branch. At least this is how the issue is being discussed by legal scholars…