Politics

Hell yeah, I'll never not be mad that our garbage justice system let him skate for this long, but it's great to see he's getting one step closer to the jail/prison cell where he belongs (though I'm just going to get mad all over again when they give him lenient bail; also, where's the felony murder charge for pushing a violent coup that was the proximate cause of multiple deaths?).

Honestly, biggest surprise for me is seeing the Independent of all places get this scoop. They're a fine publication, but they're pretty U.K. based and not even as big as something like the Guardian, and normally when anything leaks out of DC circles it goes to NYT WaPo or PBS/NPR, so it's weird to see them get this news.

And from the bird site:

Federal prosecutors have notified Donald Trump that he is a criminal target and likely to be indicted imminently in a probe into alleged classified documents – even as the Justice Department declined to delay charges to give time to investigate allegations of witness tampering submitted by the former president’s legal team, according to multiple people on Wednesday familiar with the case

https://twitter.com/allenanalysis/status/1666516418077007884

Let's say this is true. Court proceedings will start how soon after? What does it look like if he's the nominee and gets found guilty and sentenced. Would that mean the GOP would have no presidential candidate and the Dems win by default or would the person Trump selected as VP take up the mantle and would be the new nominee?