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Timing isn’t everything. But it certainly matters, and seldom more so than in special counsel Jack Smith’s prosecution of Donald Trump.

The former US president intends to use timing – delay, delay, delay – to avoid punishment for trying to overturn the 2020 election, which he lost to Joe Biden, and for fomenting a violent coup.

Nope, said Smith this week. A tough guy who has prosecuted war crimes in the Hague, Smith clearly recognizes that putting off the case until after next fall’s presidential election could let Trump off the hook.

So the prosecutor made a bold legal maneuver. Smith moved to bypass the court of appeals, whose involvement could slow things down considerably, and to go directly to the US supreme court for a decision on a foundational issue.

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[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

Nah, while for different reasons, those are just as unreachable.

When it affects you enough to ignore all of reality, there's not much reason to distinguish between pathological greed and pathological groupthink, since they arrive at the same location and jump through as many hoops to tell themselves that they're right to and justified in doing what they do.