It’s more clear than ever that Donald Trump’s criminal trials are about to happen
For all of the doomsday proclamations about how Donald Trump’s criminal trials will somehow slip past the 2024 election, there hasn’t been any point where there’s been even a sliver of a reason to believe that such a thing might happen. Yet even as we get closer to the start of multiple Trump criminal trials, the doomsday hysteria is getting ramped up even higher.
For instance, Trump’s Washington DC criminal trial (Jack Smith) has long been set for March of 2024. Judge Tanya Chutkan picked this timeframe months ago, in order to allow enough time for the inevitable pretrial appeals to play out. Sure enough, the U.S. Court of Appeals is set to rule against Trump any day on presidential immunity. Then it’ll probably take the Supreme Court no more than a week or two to decide that it doesn’t want the case. That’ll clear the way for Trump’s trial to start more or less on time.
Now the federal court docket has dropped Trump’s March 4th date from the calendar, which doesn’t mean much. Even if it means the trial won’t begin on March 4th, then it might get pushed back all the way to… March 11th? Oh dear, that’s terrible. Or it might even get pushed all the way back to… April. Gasp! That would be the end of the world. No wait, it wouldn’t much matter at all.
Of course Trump’s New York criminal trial (Alvin Bragg) has also long been tentatively set for March of 2024, with the understanding that it would slide back in favor of Trump’s other more serious criminal trials if need be. If Trump’s DC trial does slide back to April, then Trump’s New York trial would probably indeed take place in March.
In such case Trump would be put on criminal trial twice in back to back months, and he’d end up convicted in both. By the end of April he’d be a convicted felon at both the state and federal level. If you’re Trump, that’s an absolute nightmare. If you’re rooting for Trump’s downfall, it’s fantastic.
So what’s all the doomsday hysteria about? Well, it’s yet another instance of every little mundane procedural move being spun as a huge win for Trump, and every stretch of silence being spun as a sign that the cases have all fallen apart. But no, Trump’s first two criminal trials being flip flopped between March and April is not somehow a win for him. And no, the U.S. Court of Appeals’ lack of a ruling in the Trump DC case doesn’t mean that the sky is somehow falling.
Best anyone can tell, Donald Trump is set to have one criminal trial next month, and another criminal trial the month after that, and he really has no way of stopping any of it from happening. The notion that he’s somehow in the process of “getting away with it all” isn’t just laugh out loud silly, it’s a barrel rolling level of laugh out loud silly.
The people telling you that Trump’s criminal trials won’t happen are the same people who told you his civil trials would never happen. They’re the same people who told you Trump would never get criminally indicted in the first place. They’re the same people who told you that Trump wasn’t under criminal investigation to begin with. And now they’re once again ignoring all of the facts while trying to convince you that we’re going “run out of time” for Trump’s trials to happen. My advice is to buy these types a calendar and then stop listening to them.
