(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Three Prosecutors: Three Coordinated Prosecutions of Trump? [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2023-03-31 The Breaking of the Ex-President 2023 -- It's like a 3-1 Tag Team match, played by people in suits, carrying briefcases. BREAKING NEWS (3/31): Donald Trump will be arraigned (told the charges and asked to enter an initial plea) in Manhattan Superior Court on Tuesday, April 4, at 2:15 p.m. Eastern Time. Now that we have gone from "When will Trump be indicted” to "When will Trump be indicted NEXT," I am going to engage in a little educated speculation, based on my experience as a lawyer. Whenever lawyers face a common adversary, they always try to coordinate their strategies. One way is to coordinate arguments so that all the parties can argue the entire case without violating page limits on legal briefs. Another is to get a hostile witness to testify to one set of facts, so the next attorney can discredit the witness and make him useless to the other side. Invention knows no bounds. Then there's Trump. He's the rare defendant that not only keeps talking about his own case, but repeatedly insults and threatens the prosecutors, the witnesses, the judges, and even news reporters. Even Al Capone did not include these methods in his public relations strategy -- and old “Scarface" was a master at P.R. Do not be surprised if you see each prosecution team coordinate their moves to create the impression that Donald Trump and/or his lawyers, are spending ALL their time in courtrooms dealing with his many criminal cases. Prosecutors are expected to consider each case dispassionately and from the interests of the public, rather than use their power to harass or intimidate, and only prosecute the cases where justice demands a conviction. And then there's Trump: A man that not only insults the legal system, but has caused everyone in the system, from the chief prosecutors to the receptionists, to worry more about their personal safety than if they were prosecuting a Columbian drug lord. These are not typical prosecutions: Not just because the defendant is a former U.S. President, but because the defendant is this Public Enemy of a former U.S. President. When the report came out last night that Trump would face 34 criminal counts, including felonies, I envisioned the scene in the movies where "The D.A.” tells his staff: "We’re gonna take this punk off the streets!" and everyone works overtime to do whatever it takes to put the bad guy behind bars. But what happens when not one, but THREE chief lawyers decide to “take him off the streets?" What, happens when the target is over 76 years old, in declining health, and yet still as great a threat to the rule of law as Donald Trump? I’ll tell you what I think will happen. Do not be surprised if you see each prosecution team--and also the lawyers in the defamation case he has with E. Jean Carroll--coordinate their moves to create the impression that Donald Trump and/or his lawyers, are spending ALL their time in courtrooms dealing with his many criminal and civil cases. With Trump as a defendant, we have already seen that there is no "24-Hour News Cycle" for legal news about him, but a News Juggernaut that goes on for days, starting with Meidas Touch on YouTube an hour after the event, and ending with Meet the Press on Sunday. So, if the prosecutors are coordinating, Trump will be arraigned next week, and we’ll all enjoy making memes from his mug shot. Then, the week after next, the hammer will fall in one of the other cases, and then the next. On some weeks, there will be evidentiary motions in one court to discuss. On others, there will be a pre-trial conference before a different court. Each time it will be in a different state, a different court, with each team working together to create the impression that not only is the Law grinding slowly, but Donald Trump is being crushed between the gears of the Law, breaking him into an increasingly fine powder until he's just so much metaphorical dust. Meanwhile, Trump will be going from one state to the next state to D.C. and then on to another state, week after interminable week, month after month, like the mythical Dutchman on a ghost ship. Moreover, each time — no matter how brave Trump will try to look — he will appear like a hunted man, hounded by prosecutors and judges baying for his blood, with his increasingly haunted face appearing on news sites around the world, in dozens of languages. While he's living on an endless Trump for Prison treadmill, Don the Con will also be under "gag orders" by judges to not talk about his case or encourage others to talk about his case, in order to not bias potential jurors. He will violate those orders, of course, and then there will be more court hearings he will have to attend. Eventually, he may be held incommunicado in a gilded palace like Bedminster, a latter-day Prisoner of Zenda, unable to call forth new terrors from the MAGA "movement," and certainly unable to prowl Iowa or New Hampshire for his 2024 presidential run. Eventually, Trump will break down from exhaustion, and start looking for a deal in which he somehow leaves public life in exchange for legal mercy. Or he will just break down and that will be the end of him. So that's something to look forward to, something that will only become apparent over the next few weeks: A long painful illustration of the old Spanish proverb: "Better to be a Mouse in the Jaws of a Cat, than a Man in the Hands of a Lawyer!" [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/3/31/2161335/-Three-Prosecutors-Three-Coordinated-Prosecutions-of-Trump Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/