It’s all hitting the fan at once now
Yesterday Donald Trump suffered a remarkable string of legal defeats within a span of just hours. His Fulton County co-defendants lost their bid to sever their trials from each other. “Trump Employee 4” Yuscil Taveras’ cooperation deal was reported as official, meaning Taveras will testify against Trump at trial. And somewhere in there, a judge issued a summary judgement against Trump in his civil case against E. Jean Carroll.
The kicker is that all this went wrong for Trump yesterday – and it only involved half the major cases against Trump. We’re still waiting for the federal court to rule on Jack Smiths’ Tuesday filing about Trump’s social media posts. We’re also waiting for the New York court to rule on Letitia James’ request for a $250 million summary judgment against the Trump Organization.
The point is that this is all piling up in such a manner that Trump wouldn’t be able to fend it all off even if he had a strong case in any of these matters. The reality is that he has a weak losing case in all of them, and that’s before getting to his inability to juggle all of them at once.
Historians like to talk about what happens when someone tries to fight a war on two fronts at once. Donald Trump is being forced to fight a criminal justice system war on four fronts at once – and it’s a six front war if you count his two most prominent civil court battles. Trump is simply being overwhelmed on all fronts.
It’s a sort of laugh out loud notion that Trump can somehow magically be viable as a presidential candidate, at a time when he can’t even be viable in any of his legal battles. This guy is simply being crushed on all sides – and he’d better get used to it.
