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The Charges Against Trump Won’t Stick.
My father was a confirmed Nixon hater. He hated Nixon right up to the moment that Tricky Dick got on that helicopter and waved to the crowd after he resigned. Dad stopped hating Nixon at that point because as he said to me, public humiliation was a far worse punishment than any time spent in jail.
Which is how I feel about Trump. And after yesterday’s final session of the January 6th Select Committee, I thought that maybe, just maybe, those of us who really hate Trump would have an opportunity to see this piece of sh*t publicly humiliated for the very first time.
So, I sat up all night reading the 154-page report issued by the Select Committee which lays out in detail the information behind the four criminal referrals against Trump that the Committee is making to the DOJ.
Actually, the text which lists and explains the referrals is only 86 pages. The rest of the report covers related matters, such as the ethics complaints against various House members who refused to testify, the credibility of different witnesses, the identity of every witness and 762 detailed footnotes just to make it clear that the entire report is based on what the Committee heard and read.
Now let me make it clear that I’m not a criminal defense attorney. In fact, I’m not any kind of attorney. But I know how to read the English…