You see it now, right?
Civil trials aren’t criminal trials. Financial verdicts aren’t prison sentences. And Rudy Giuliani isn’t Donald Trump. But when the verdict came down this week in Giuliani’s civil trial against Georgia election workers, we sure saw the blueprint, didn’t we? A jury of ordinary citizens looked at the Trump-Giuliani cartel’s corrupt attempt at overthrowing the 2020 election, and threw the book in that direction as aggressively as possible.
This trial was, in effect, a preview of what we can expect from Donald Trump’s two election-related criminal trials. A trial jury of ordinary citizens is once again going to look at how Trump and his cartel tried to overthrow the 2020 election, they’re going to listen to testimony from people like Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss (and Sidney Powell and Jenna Ellis and Mike Pence and Cassidy Hutchinson and so many others), and they’re going to throw the book at Trump. Only this time it’ll be a criminal trial verdict, and the “book” being thrown will be a prison sentence.
You see it now, right? You see the blueprint for how Donald Trump goes to prison. Just as Rudy Giuliani couldn’t stop this trial from happening in a timely fashion, Trump won’t be able to stop his criminal trials from happening when they’re supposed to. Just as the jury screening process prevented Trumpers from hijacking the Giuliani jury, Trumpers won’t be able to hijack the Trump jury either.
There were no magic wands for getting Rudy Giuliani off the legal hook, and there aren’t going to be any magic wands for getting Donald Trump off the hook either. We just saw proof of how the legal system actually works. Let’s keep that in mind as we head into Trump’s upcoming criminal trials. We’ve already seen the blueprint for how things are going to play out.
