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    Trump’s victory means the DOJ will drop the charges. It’s a mistake

    Umito Posted on

    Donald Trump wants his criminal affairs to stop. We will know in four years if he won this fight.

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    Donald Trump did not win the presidency on Tuesday. He also prevailed against the US Department of Justiceto hold him accountable for his attempt to overturn the 2020 election and the classified documents he kept after his defeat.

    Trump’s two federal criminal cases, lengthy legal proceedings prolonged by his successful plan to delay justice until politics can save him, are about to meet a brutal end.

    Here’s what else will happen: Trump will use the good faith efforts of officials in a bad faith effort to again mislead Americans about why he was facing criminal charges in the first place . He will present a legal victory won at the ballot box, not in a courtroom, as proof that the charges against him were somehow illegitimate.

    This was not the case.

    Trump also faces criminal charges in New York, where he was found guilty of 34 counts in May, and in Georgia, where he still faces charges over his failed attempt to overturn the 2020 election.

    Trump has a hearing Tuesday in New York for his attempt to overturn this conviction after the most politically oriented justices of the United States Supreme Court in July injected uncertainty in all his criminal cases by asserting that he could be tried but had immunity for any actions taken in his official capacity as president.

    His conviction in this case is scheduled for November 26. He’s a criminal. And he’s not president. Not yet. We have a verdict. We should also get a sentence.

    Federal investigations into Trump will be immediately halted

    Jack Smith, the special counsel leading the two federal cases, is would have drawn up plans close the files before Trump takes office in 10 weeks.

    This is a mistake. And I understand why Smith does it. Special Prosecutor and Attorney General of the United States Merrick Garland, who named him two years agorevere the Department of Justice as an institution. They probably think it protects the department.

    It does the opposite. I’m not saying the federal prosecution of Trump should continue. It’s a recipe for chaos. And there will be no shortage of chaos. What matters here is who ends the cases and how.

    The department’s Office of Legal Counsel issued a memo 51 years ago, and reaffirmed it in 2000that a sitting president cannot be prosecuted for federal crimes. Smith therefore follows long-standing precedent. But, in doing so, he could call into question the functioning of the department.

    Notice: Election disinformation is here to stay, but our election system worked perfectly

    The Trump campaign is already using Smith’s plans to attack Smith, the department, and the very notion of justice. Steven Cheung, a spokesman for the Trump campaign, said Wednesday“It is now abundantly clear that Americans want to put an immediate end to the militarization of our justice system.”

    It is the Trump campaign that is using justice as a weapon against the Department of Justice. Winning an election is not the same as being found not guilty by a jury of your peers. But that’s how Trump wants you to see the world. He has a political motivation to lie when he claims the affairs were politically motivated.

    It makes sense that Smith would leave his position before Trump took his. Trump boasted of his enthusiasm fire the special prosecutor if he won the elections. But the way Smith leaves makes all the difference.

    Trump will rush to strong-arm the Justice Department. Make him admit that.

    Trump will choose a new attorney general and has repeatedly promised to use that person and the Justice Department. to punish people he considers political enemies for simply opposing him. But first, that person should be responsible for stopping the criminal prosecution of Trump.

    Make Trump and his new attorney general own it, in public, forever. Connect this act to his entire litany of false complaints about how he is being persecuted, and pile up the evidence that shows the exact opposite is true.

    Smith should memorialize both cases in writing, laying out every piece of evidence, every word of testimony, every point regarding the lawless behavior we have all seen Trump engage in.

    Notice: I guess Trump won because the Democrats forgot to cheat. Oops !

    This includes his case in Washington, DC, where Trump was held accountable for his actions before, during and after the insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.

    Smith asked the judge in that case Friday clear all deadlines in the way he moves forward, in what seems to be a prelude to his end.

    Expect something similar in the Florida case that Smith tried to revive in an appeals court after Trump appointed a judge in July. gave him a get out of jail free card for keeping classified documents after leaving office and refusing to return them.

    File all of this in court. Leave a complete and robust file. Don’t let this stuff disappear. Make Trump’s team kill them in public.

    Trump did a masterful job of avoiding justice

    Trump, a former president with Secret Service protection, never seemed to me to face prison time for his conviction in New York for leading a the real estate sector is rife with fraud. It was a financial crime. The judge should impose a heavy financial penalty and a significant period of probation.

    Four years seems about right to me.

    The situation in Georgia is more complicated, again because of Trump’s policies. tactics to delay the procedure until the election results can shield him from any responsibility. Fani Willis, the Fulton County prosecutor handling the case, faltered several times while trying to move it forward.

    She should push for the case to be dropped now, which is what Trump wants, but only on the condition that he cannot complain in four years about his speedy trial rights being violated if Willis or another prosecutor tries to restart the affair.

    Justice delayed is not always justice denied. We’ll all have to wait to see if Trump ever has to face it.

    Follow USA TODAY election columnist Chris Brennan on X, formerly known as Twitter: @ByChrisBrennan

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