On Friday, November 4, 2022 at 5:07:23 PM UTC-5, micky wrote:
> Another thing several have said is that trump will announce his
> candidacy for prez so that if he's indicted afterwards, he can claim
> they are after him 1) because he's a candidate, or 2) that they may not
> go after him because he's a candidate.
>
> WRT 1, won't he say that anyway, they're after me because they think I
> will be a candidate? Or just, they are persecuting me? Why does his
> being an announced candidate make it any harder to investigate or
> prosecute him?
>
> WRT 2 Why would his being an announced candidate make it any harder to
> prosecute him? If that were not psosible, everyone expecting an
> investigation or indictment would announce his candidacy for something.
> Running for governor is not that hard, and running for president is not
> that hard if you don't actually work at it.
The way I see it:
Being a candidate for President means running against the U. S. Attorney General's
boss (President Biden). For the U. S. Attorney General to go after a political rival
of the AG's boss is a conflict of interest. A conflict of interest may demand
that the U. S. Attorney General appoint a Special Counsel. For one, see
https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/28/600.1
Being a declared candidate makes the argument for a Special Counsel stronger.
Also the Special Counsel would have to be a Republican. Which of course is
not necessarily bad. Mr. Trump's poor track record before his very own
judicial appointees suggests that chaos may very well not be the final
outcome. "Chaos" being a euphemism for much worse things.
Anyway, all these things make it harder for the Justice Department to
press forward.
If the GOP takes control of the House, I predict investigations of every little
thing that Biden has done will commence. Which maybe does not matter,
since with the House controlled by one party and the Presidency controlled
by another, in these days of particularly heated partisanship, any meaningful
legislation is unlikely to be passed anyway.
Then again, the effects of climate change could compel (to say the least)
bi-partisan efforts.