Arizona’s criminal case against Donald Trump just got real
Even with Donald Trump eleven days from the start of his New York criminal trial and perhaps eleven weeks from the start of his Georgia criminal trial, those aren’t the only states he needs to worry about. Now it turns out Arizona is hot on Trump’s heels as well.
The Arizona criminal investigation into Donald Trump got off to a delayed start because we first had to get rid of the state’s previous Republican Attorney General, who was refusing to pursue the matter. But now that the new Arizona Attorney General is a Democrat who’s willing to pursue justice, the case suddenly has legs.
AZ Attorney General Kris Mayes has now subpoenaed two House Republicans, Andy Biggs and Paul Gosar, to testify to the grand jury. We’re about to see a bunch of nonsense headlines about how they’ll just decide not to testify and “run out the clock” or whatever, but that’s not reality. Remember when Senator Lindsey Graham insisted he wasn’t going to testify to the Fulton County grand jury? He ended up testifying just like everyone else.
So yes, Biggs and Gosar will end up testifying to the grand jury, not because they want to, but because there’s no such thing as getting out of a grand jury subpoena. But when you put someone in front of a grand jury, it means they’re a witness, not a criminal target. So while this news will be widely misinterpreted as Biggs and Gosar being targets, what it actually means is they’re being forced to help take others down.
So who are these others? There’s still no confirmation of that. But you can likely expect roughly the same cast of characters. It’s reasonable to expect that Donald Trump, along with any of his advisers and surrogates who tried to overthrow the 2020 election results in Arizona, will likely be criminally indicted.
The timeframe for such indictments is anyone’s guess. The only available clue is that grand juries usually start off with the small fish witnesses and end with the big fish witnesses. So if Biggs and Gosar are considered bigger fish, it would suggest that the indictment process is closer to the end than the beginning.
