In the eleventh hour, the cavalry (juristically speaking) once again comes to Trump’s rescue. Is there still anyone left who is surprised?
100 years ago, Dorothy L. Sayers’ sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey asked his lawyer, ‘Why do they make laws so complicated that no one can be certain what they mean?’ He then answers his own question, suggesting they do it to keep themselves and fellow lawyers in business in the future.
I’ll take it one step further and say they deliberately make it complicated while leaving enough loopholes to guarantee that if a client pays his lawyers enough, that client will never be brought to justice.
Maybe ‘never’ is too strong a word. There are other factors helping Trump, and since he’s probably the first person to use them on this scale, their ultimate effectiveness is unknown at this point.
By ‘other factors’, I don’t just mean his cult base keeping the entire GOP in line, although that’s of obvious importance. But the thing that’s new is his mafia-like threat machine. Virtually every judge, lawyer, juror, and witness Trump’s thugs can identify gets so seriously threatened they have to request physical protection or even move out of their home.
And while we’re on the subject, ask yourself what kind of person would vote for someone who bases his power on a twisted legal system and threatening his critics? How can a Trump supporter justify their candidate needing absolute immunity and legal delays, not to mention resorting countless times to ‘The 5th’ or being ‘unable to recall’ whenever under oath?
I’m doing my best to stop anticipating legal judgements against Trump, trials beginning for Trump, or new indictments against Trump. Since Mueller’s time we’ve all been waiting for justice, but this guy with the brains of a mouse but the cunning of a snake outsmarts us every time.