Long Awaited Legal Cases Against Are Taking So Long, That It Already Feels Like It May Be Too Late

I have mixed feelings about all of these Trump trials. 

While I want to believe that nobody is above the law, experience in seeing powerful individuals get away with things time and again has taught me otherwise. And while I hope that he gets convicted for the most serious of the crimes, it felt like they all pretty much took waaaayyyy too long to finally get going. The article listed below, for example, was published last year in mid-summer, and it hardly feels like the trial has really fully gotten going yet, although it is now late January of 2024, and Trump has already won in Iowa and New Hampshire. That means that only Nikki Haley stands in his way of securing a third straight Republican presidential nomination, dating back to 2016. And indeed, this lends the impression of being purely politically motivated, instead of actually holding the man accountable for crimes that he actually committed. Why in the hell did it take this long to bring all of this to trial, anyway? 

It just too often feels like everything works right into this man's hands. He makes a mockery of the trial proceedings in New York. Regardless of what you think of the trial or the chargers, literally anyone else whom you could think of who acted out (or lashed out) the way that Trump did would outright be held in contempt of court, and likely already spent some time behind bars just for that. But this man, who's rather stunning ability to avoid accountability for how he conducts himself just keeps managing not to be held accountable. Anyone else, literally, would have been tossed out of the court and into jail, but not him. Yet, quite typically, he has the audacity to whine and complain and claim that he is being persecuted.

Sickening.

He has committed serious crimes, and he should have been behind bars for years now. Fomenting an insurrection. Refusing to concede an election and constantly attacking our democracy as a result of that. The criminal way that he stole sensitive documents and then refused to cooperate and turn them over when given every chance to do so. Election interference.

Not only did he spend not one minute behind bars, but he is about to receive the GOP nomination for the presidency for a third straight time, which is something most of us have never seen before? And that, after he has outright claimed that he would be a dictator and that his focus on this second term would be revenge?

Are you kidding me? I mean, really, are you freaking kidding me? 

Now, I was never one of those people who actually believed that he would be held accountable for his actions. The man clearly has a talent for managing to find his way out of trouble. Well actually, a talent is not the right word. I don't believe that he is the "very stable genius" whom he claims to be, but it is difficult, if not impossible, to recognize that he has a certain genius ability to keep getting himself out of trouble, that he just instinctively knows how to get himself out of being held accountable for anything that he does, on any real level.

Is it already too late, as Susan B. Glasser asks in the article (see link below)?

It sure feels like it. They had years and years to actually bring the man to trial and convicted. Why wait until election year, when it gives the serious appearance of backing up Trump's claims that all of this is just hyped up, and little more than a political witch hunt? 

What if he is convicted, yet still gets elected? Does anyone believe that he will hesitate for even five minutes before pardoning himself for literally every single crime that he ever committed? Does anyone doubt that this will not be the very first thing that he does, if he indeed wins another term as president, as is looking more and more likely? 

Can American democracy survive another four years of Trump, especially since he and especially his team now have learned and gained experience and will be better equipped to get away with even more abuses of power a second time around? 

Finally, the Trump Case We’ve Been Waiting For But, with 2024 looming, is it already too late?  By Susan B. Glasser  July 20, 2023:

https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-bidens-washington/finally-the-trump-case-weve-been-waiting-for?source=Paid_Soc_FBIG_CM_0_DPA_GTM_0_NYR_US_Prospecting_C&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=Paid_Soc_FBIG_CM&utm_brand=tny&utm_campaign=paid-DPA_GTM&fbclid=IwAR1xj-8pr8wHqjMtAOdB8TGxF_skDEMr60CJuy1i8cX8_VRiDp9JzT6m3Yc