Three strikes for Donald Trump
In spite of what he wishes were true, and in spite of what some ratings-driven corners of the media would like you to believe, Donald Trump is not on the verge of some kind of magical comeback. He’s been marooned, unable to get onto social media, unable to make anyone care about his own online platforms, unable to put two coherent sentences together when he occasionally insists on appearing in public, and unable to stop what various criminal prosecutors are doing to him.
In fact – as Palmer Report predicted when he left office – the real narrative about Donald Trump in 2021 is how far he’s fallen and how thoroughly the legal system will end up having its way with him. To that end, Trump is now under criminal investigation in three different states.
This week Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs asked the Arizona Attorney General to launch a criminal probe into Donald Trump’s election meddling in the state. Even if the AG refuses to do it, Hobbs can simply ask the local District Attorney to do it instead, so one way or the other this investigation is going to happen.
This is on top of the New York criminal investigation into Donald Trump’s financial crimes, which recently saw the first round of indictments come down, and certainly not the last. In addition, the Fulton County District Attorney previously let it be known that she had empaneled a grand jury to begin presenting a criminal case against Trump for his election meddling in Georgia.
So that means Donald Trump is now under criminal investigation in three different states. For good measure the Washington DC Attorney General is also running a widely documented civil probe into the Trump inaugural fund fraud, which appears to have caught two of Trump’s kids giving false testimony, and could potentially turn into a criminal probe. This is on top of any other criminal probes into Trump and his family that may not yet have become public, and any federal criminal case that may or may not end up being pursued against Trump by the DOJ.
But at the least, there are three criminal investigations into Donald Trump right now. All of them are for crimes that he either got caught committing red handed (election fraud), or that the paperwork proves his guilt (financial fraud). There are no magic pardons coming in these cases. Trump is no longer in a position to meddle with any prosecution. There’s nothing to protect him anymore. It’s just a matter of time, as we wait for the criminal justice system to inherently move more slowly than we’d like. Three strikes and Donald Trump will be out.
