Damn right Donald Trump is going to prison
Yesterday was something of a surreal deal in Donald Trump’s criminal trials. First Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg signed off on a possible thirty day delay in Trump’s New York criminal trial, due to the last minute arrival of new evidence. Then Judge Aileen Cannon promptly struck down Trump’s request that she dismiss his classified documents case.
These back to back developments set off a range of emotions, panic, confusion, whatever you want to call it. A lot of observers couldn’t quite logically put together that if Bragg was fine with a potential delay, then they should be fine with it as well. The most common complaint on social media was “But I’m tired of waiting!” Too bad. This isn’t a reality show.
And I guess there were people who thought that Aileen Cannon was actually going to dismiss the case against Trump. That was never going to happen. She just doesn’t have that kind of unilateral power. If she wanted to immediately lose control over the case and see it reinstated and reassigned to a different judge, all she’d have to do is something as stupid as trying to dismiss the case. Cannon is in over her head and she doesn’t know what she’s doing, but she isn’t that stupid.
In any case, nothing that happened yesterday amounted to much. Even if the thirty day delay does happen in the New York trial, the impact will be zero. What’s the difference between the trial taking place in March vs April? Nothing. Trump would still be heading into the Republican National Convention this summer with a criminal conviction hanging around his neck. And no, this possible thirty day delay will not impact the timeframes of Trump’s other trials, no matter how many cable news performance artists try to convince you that it will.
The bottom line: Donald Trump is going to prison. Remember, before Alvin Bragg himself signed off on a possible delay, Trump’s attempts at delaying the trial all went nowhere. That trial is going to start whenever Bragg wants it to. If you trust Bragg in general, then trust him on this. The people insisting Trump’s New York criminal trial will never happen are the same loons who tried to convince you that Bragg was being bribed or blackmailed back when Bragg and Pomerantz parted ways.
And while Aileen Cannon is continuing to try to help Trump in various small incremental ways, yesterday was a reminder that she does not have a magic wand. It’s almost hilarious to think that Trump made a point of attending yesterday’s hearing because he had deluded himself into believing that Cannon was going to dismiss the case and he was going to be magically off the hook. But nothing in the real world ever works that simplistically. Trump is going on trial, and he’s going to prison.
