Trump's 2024 Strategy: Delay, Delay, Win Then Have His DOJ Toss All His Indictments

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(Trump seeks “total immunity” to escape justice)

MAJOR AP UPDATE (February 6) to the below original post. Also, from most other major media outlets: 

This AP headline: 

“Trump is not immune from prosecution in his 2020 election interference case, U.S. appeals court says”

Original Post Below:

The article below is most-concerning and rightly so from SALON with their headline below, and with more related from NEWSWEEK here and here on the same subject:

“Legal experts worried DC appeal delay could mean Trump is losing that battle but winning the war”

Legal observers are getting restless awaiting a D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling on Trump’s immunity claim in the D.C. election subversion case.

This short video explains the delays that Trump seeks:

 

Lisa Rubin: Attorney and MSNBC Legal Analyst

Proceedings in the case have been paused indefinitely for more than 50 days after Trump appealed U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan’s ruling rejecting his claim that presidential immunity protects him from prosecution for actions while in office. Now, the three-judge D.C. Circuit panel heard the appeal three weeks ago but has yet to issue a ruling. Any ruling is expected to be appealed to the Supreme Court.

The heart of this issue is stated by Politico’s Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein who wrote: “Even if Trump’s immunity claim is rejected, the protracted delays help the former president, whose strategy across his various trials has been to drag them out for as long as possible. Lengthy delays in his federal criminal cases create the possibility that, if he wins the presidency this November, Trump could avoid the charges altogether by having the Justice Department end the prosecutions or perhaps even by pardoning himself.”

Judge Chutkan scheduled the trial for March 4 but suggested that the case is likely to be delayed in a recent order barring special counsel Smith from filing substantive motions in the case until the appeal is resolved. 

If the D.C. Circuit & then the Supreme Court take additional weeks or months to deliver a final ruling, it could push Trump’s trial to the summer or fall. 

That is what Trump and his allies want: “To exert intense pressure to postpone the trial until after the 2024 election.”

Daniel Richman, a Columbia University law professor, told Politico:  “The timing of a decision by the panel will indeed be a critical determinant of whether the case can go forward expeditiously. Trump’s immunity claim is outlandish and is likely to be rejected but quite a few stars would have to align before the trial can proceed.”

The delay talk has alarmed some legal experts:

Like former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann, who served on special counsel Bob Mueller’s team, and who wrote that he and his podcast co-host Mary McCord, a Georgetown law professor and former DOJ official said: “We are worried that the D.C. immunity appeal could result in Trump losing that battle but winning the war, by avoiding a trial before the election.”

MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin (video above) suggested that there may be some disagreement among the three appellate judges about what to do with the case, saying in the video clip above: “My guess is these three judges have a general agreement between them that Donald Trump should not be immune from prosecution in the federal election interference case. How they get there, on the other hand, is a different matter. And in the ideal world, all three of them would like to be in total agreement. They'd like to issue what's called a per curiam agreement, where all three of them get to sign on, but of course, there are many different paths to getting there.”

On that court, Judge Karen Henderson, a George H.W. Bush appointee, expressed opposition to taking up the case on an expedited basis and she suggested the case could be sent back to the trial court for more analysis of whether Trump’s actions could be considered official acts.

Rubin explained: “One judge suggested during an argument that what really matters to her is the allegations against Trump are ones that affect his duties, or that affect him in the campaign capacity, and suggested almost that you really had to parse the indictment. That would be the worst of all worlds, because that can mean sending the case back to Judge Chutkan to determine which aspects of the indictment are worthy of immunity and which are not. And that could even further elongate case beyond the appellate process. So I think that's behind the scenes, the two judges would like to get there, in an easier way more akin to Judge Chutkan, are really putting some pressure on Judge Henderson to try to get on board and see if they could do something unanimously.”

CNN legal analyst Elliott Williams, a former federal prosecutor, predicted that the judges are likely trying to reach a “unanimous decision,” then he added: “Based on the oral argument they all seem to be in an agreement. They'll probably try to get a 3-0 opinion and that's bulletproof once that goes to the Supreme Court.”

My 2 Cents: Based the above my view is this and has been all along.

As noted, Trump’s #1 goal all along is to delay, delay, and delay more and more to win in November and once back in the White House and then order that his new DOJ order all indictments pending against him to be closed and tossed out.

Note the above chart and ask yourself this: “How smart and savvy and up-to-date are the American voters in tune enough and not tied to Trump so tight that they will insure that he IS NOT reelected?”

In other words how can anyone not see that this man is at all costs doing his best to escape justice for the crimes pending against him just because a certain percentage like him and want him back in the Oval Office? 

That is truly astonishing and in my view, totally un-American by all standards of justice that says: “No one is above the law” but Trump is out to prove that he is by any means possible.

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