Breaking a hundred
Back when every single piece of available information made it clear that Donald Trump was under active criminal investigation at the federal and state level, but everyone on TV and most pundits on social media were busy insisting Trump had “gotten away with it all,” some people thought I was crazy for predicting that Trump had roughly a 100% chance of ending up criminally indicted. They thought I was even more crazy when I said that Trump would be indicted in multiple jurisdictions, on a hundred or more felony counts.
Of course Trump has now been indicted in four different jurisdictions, with a combined total of 91 felony counts. That’s far more than enough to bury him. At this point Trump only has to be convicted on any one of those felony counts in any one of those trials, and he’s a jailbird. But I still expect Trump has good odds of surpassing 100 felony charges.
For one thing, Jack Smith clearly isn’t done bringing indictments. By all accounts his grand jury is still active. He’s listed six co-conspirators in his latest Trump indictment, meaning he’s likely to end up indicting those six people. It’s highly possible that he’ll tack on more charges against Trump as he indicts the others.
There are also the reports that Smith is still investigating the Willard Hotel “command center” – including a recent interview with Bernard Kerik, and a fairly recent cooperation deal with Owen Shroyer, who were both in that room. If Smith indicts any of the people who were at that command center, we can probably expect more charges against Trump as well.
Then there’s the fact that just a few days ago Trump committed witness tampering in the Fulton County case. It wouldn’t be surprising at all to see DA Fani Willis circle back and bring tampering or obstruction charges against Trump the next time she has grand jury access.
There are also the longstanding reports that Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg is still investigating Donald Trump on aspects of Trump Organization fraud that go beyond the current charges.
Come to think of it, we don’t know if Jack Smith is done charging Trump in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents probe. We’ve already seen Smith bring one superseding indictment against Trump in that probe.
This is all before getting to the fact that the Michigan Attorney General recently indicted the fake electors and stated that her probe is ongoing, leaving open the possibility that Trump could end up indicted in that state as well. The newly elected Arizona Attorney General is also moving forward with a Trump criminal probe as well.
So while the current 91 felony charges are more than enough to ensure that Donald Trump is toast, there is also strong reason to expect that the 91 number could still climb well above 100 charges when it’s all said and done. In fact it would be surprising if Trump didn’t end up with any additional felony charges going forward.
