While we are waiting for the Supreme Court to get their act together, Special Counsel Jack Smith has plenty of time on his hands. Why waste it?
There are plenty of other people involved in the crimes alleged against Little Dictator Donald Trump, part of his inner circle that enabled him to commit those (alleged, but well-known) crimes. This is the perfect time to take them before a grand jury and seek indictments for all of them.
According to NPR, there are four counts against Little Dictator that came out of the insurrection:
- one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States applies to Trump's repeated and widespread efforts to spread false claims about the November 2020 election while knowing they were not true and for allegedly attempting to illegally discount legitimate votes all with the goal of overturning the 2020 election, prosecutors claim in the indictment.
- one count of conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding was brought due to the alleged organized planning by Trump and his allies to disrupt the electoral vote's certification in January 2021.
- one count of obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding is tied to Trump and his co-conspirators' alleged efforts after the November 2020 election until Jan. 7, 2021, to block the official certification proceeding in Congress.
- one count of conspiracy against rights refers to Trump and his co-conspirators alleged attempts to "oppress, threaten and intimidate" people in their right to vote in an election.
All of these charges posit co-conspirators. Why are they getting off the hook?
In response to events, the Special Counsel’s office needs to adjust their strategy. If they can convict even a small group of these people, it will make it that much more difficult for the ring leader to get off when he is finally put on trial.
The more important point, however, is that these trials make it less likely that the Republicans will retake the government in November. The entire electorate will see the rot exposed in public. And if the mob boss can’t regain the White House, he can’t end his own prosecutions.
It is important to put the entire conspiracy before the public, forcing its supporters to defend it in court, where they are exposed to the truth.
Oh, and while we’re looking at other prosecution, there’s still the wire fraud that I allege the Trump campaign and other Republican campaigns have been perpetrating on people based on his big lie about winning the election. As I suggested in The Con Man, this is very likely wire fraud under federal law, and the DOJ should be looking into that. In fact, the regular DOJ should be looking at that, because it’s just a common crime. But why do Republican get to raise millions of dollars on the basis of a clear lie and then spend that money for their elections? Simple justice ought to stop that.
So where is Justice?
Since the SCOTUS has tried to render Smith idle over the next six months or so, he and his team have plenty of spare cycles to go after these co-conspirators and even look into the apparent fraud. Why are they sitting on their hands?