“No one is above the law” is the long standing legal
foundation phrase of our entire legal justice system – but is it fair and truly
that way or does it work only for a select powerful few?
Think about that as you read this story from NEWSWEEK that sort of addresses that proposition with this headline:
“Will Donald Trump Be
Indicted? What We Know About GA Special Grand Jury Report”
Key parts from the
article and this post follows the post seen below after this one:
Legal experts have long suggested that the probe in Georgia
is the one in which Trump is most likely to be charged.
As well as the federal investigation into the January 6,
2021, Capitol riot, the former president is facing possible criminal charges
over allegations that he refused a subpoena to hand over classified documents
found at his Mar-a-Lago resort in August and hindered the federal attempt to
retrieve them.
Questions have been raised as to whether the Department
of Justice will decide to charge Trump over the appearance of
top-secret documents at his Florida home, given that President Joe Biden, and
now former Vice President Mike Pence,
were also found to have possessed sensitive materials at their residences.
Neama Rahmani, former federal prosecutor and president of Los
Angeles-based West Coast Trial Lawyers, told Newsweek: “Willis' reputation as an “aggressive prosecutor” on
top of a grand jury recommendation, means her investigation is the one most
likely to take the unprecedented act of charging a former president.”
Rahmani added: “Biden's mishandling of classified documents makes
it unlikely that Trump is charged for the Mar-a-Lago documents. Nothing AG Merrick Garland or Special Counsel Jack Smith has said or done leads us
to believe Trump will be charged for his role in the January Capitol riots.”
Rahmani concluded: “Similarly, New York prosecutors are either
suing Trump civilly or charging his entities and not him personally. That
leaves Willis as the prosecutor most likely to pursue criminal charges against
Trump. If so, it would be the most politically charged prosecution in American
history.”
On Tuesday, Trump
repeated his defense that his phone call with Raffensperger “was perfect” while
continuing to push the false claim that the 2020 election was “rigged due to
widespread voter fraud.”
He wrote on his “Truth
Social” page: “Many people, including lawyers for both sides, were
knowingly on the line. I was protesting a RIGGED & STOLEN Election, which
evidence proves it was. I won Georgia by a lot, but only needed a small number
of votes from that total number.”
My Note: Nothing at all supports or defends Trump’s “Big Lie” and
false accusations about the 2020 election being stolen from him and that
includes over 60 court cases including to the U.S. Supreme Court that he lost.
Trump's lawyers were
not present during the hearing on Tuesday in GA on whether to release the
special grand jury report or not, but Trump attorneys Drew Findling, Marissa
Goldberg, and Jennifer Little said in a statement: “We can assume that the
grand jury did their job and looked at the facts and the law, as we have, and
concluded there were no violations of the law by President Trump.”
Related
· Trump Feverishly Defends “Perfect Call” as Georgia Decision
Looms
· Trump Indictment Could Be “Imminent”
· Fulton County Grand Jury Could Be Necessary Ammo in Prosecuting
Trump
· Legal reckoning awaits Trump if he loses in 2020
My 2 Cents: Will Trump be indicted anywhere for anything anytime thus
proving the above legal standard does not apply to him, and will be restated as:
“No one is above the law, except Donald J. Trump.”
Thus, that will become the
new legal standard for the country that many of us already believe to be true: “That
powerful people with big money will keep them out of jail.”
My sincere hope is that prediction
will not come to pass, and that it can avoided and remain strictly legal for
wide public approval because truly “No
one is above the law” – but right now that seems to be hanging by a
weak thread.
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