President-elect Donald Trump faced four felony charges in connection with his efforts to overturn his 2020 presidential election loss, which culminated in the U.S. Capitol attack.
Because this is federal the chain of command goes from Jack Smith through one or a few other people before landing on Trump (once he takes office). Trump can simply order people down the line to dismiss the charges with prejudice, making it so they can never be re-filed again. If the charges are just dropped at this point, he’d have to order them to be re-charged then dismiss. Which honestly, I don’t see him suffering any backlash at all if he did. His supporters are fucking stupid and fucking crazy.
He is making a pragmatic decision that any reasonable lawyer would make.
DOJ policy is to drop a case like this. If he ignored policy then he would be fired by February before the case would even proceed. So no matter what he does, the case is dead and at least he got to write some words down. Basically the same as the three resonable justices on SCOTUS who have no power to do anything beyond write dissenting opinions that might matter sometime in the future.
It sucks, but Republicans have completed their coup from within the US government.
He wasn’t threatened with anything January 6th has always been a dog and pony show to keep Democrats riled up against Republicans in the hope that Democrats will stay in power. The oligarchy will never charge one of its own
They may fight amongst themselves, but they would never do anything to harm other people amongst their own class.
The one thing the oligarchy does understand that the working class does not is class solidarity. Dog and pony shows like January 6th keeps class solidarity fragmented amongst the working class
Guesses on what he was threatened with?
He’s dropping them now because its the only move that might revive them when Trump is out. If his old ass lives that long.
Could you explain what you mean? Does dropping the case mean they can prosecute him for the same crimes later?
They’re not dropping charges but rather prosecution iirc.
Make sure to parrot this everywhere. There is a lot of misunderstanding going on right now.
Ah ok, I see what you mean. Thank you
Because this is federal the chain of command goes from Jack Smith through one or a few other people before landing on Trump (once he takes office). Trump can simply order people down the line to dismiss the charges with prejudice, making it so they can never be re-filed again. If the charges are just dropped at this point, he’d have to order them to be re-charged then dismiss. Which honestly, I don’t see him suffering any backlash at all if he did. His supporters are fucking stupid and fucking crazy.
Much appreciated
The evil ones always live the longest, annoyingly.
He is making a pragmatic decision that any reasonable lawyer would make.
DOJ policy is to drop a case like this. If he ignored policy then he would be fired by February before the case would even proceed. So no matter what he does, the case is dead and at least he got to write some words down. Basically the same as the three resonable justices on SCOTUS who have no power to do anything beyond write dissenting opinions that might matter sometime in the future.
It sucks, but Republicans have completed their coup from within the US government.
He wasn’t threatened with anything January 6th has always been a dog and pony show to keep Democrats riled up against Republicans in the hope that Democrats will stay in power. The oligarchy will never charge one of its own
Oligarchs infight all the time particularly when one tries to kill several others.
They may fight amongst themselves, but they would never do anything to harm other people amongst their own class.
The one thing the oligarchy does understand that the working class does not is class solidarity. Dog and pony shows like January 6th keeps class solidarity fragmented amongst the working class