I previously dealt with Alvin Bragg’s indictment. In the near future, I will deal with the remaining indictments as well as the 14th Amendment lawsuit against Trump. In this post, however, I would like to discuss a larger topic: The evidence these indictments, and the lawsuit against Elon Musk’s Space X, give of the DOJ’s politicization.
For starters, there was no reason for a mugshot: Legally, the police are only required to take a mugshot if the person does not have a recent photo. Donald Trump is one of the most photographed men to ever live: The mugshot was clearly taken out of vindictiveness; the hope was to humiliate the man. That said, anyone with an ounce of marketing instinct knew that this image would become iconic. Trump, a man who has been photographed over and over again since he was in his twenties, was unlikely to miss this opportunity to create what might be the most meme-able image to ever exist. This attempted humiliation has likely backfired; indeed, it is quite likely that the vindictiveness of the left will see Trump return to the White House, and they will wish that they had not interfered with the Republican primary process at all. They have made the man into a martyr. They did what most normies do when trying to figure out the reactions of others—they assumed their own reactions are universal. One advantage of being ever so slightly on the spectrum is that you internalize that people are different from one another and that your own reactions are hardly universal. Bragg, Smith, and Willis all figured that because they saw Trump’s indictment as a humiliation, others would too. They were wrong.
The sheer number of indictments is itself a tactic: Not even the worst criminals in American history have found themselves “trial gang raped” in the way Donald Trump has. The fact that all of these prosecutors waited two years or more before pressing charges is itself suspect: Why did it take more than two years to investigate these supposed crimes? And why did all of these prosecutors launch their indictments so unusually close together? Clearly, Bragg, Willis, and Smith coordinated their actions—if not through direct communication, then by a shared desire to interrupt Trump’s ability to campaign. Indeed, it makes it difficult for the public to understand the issues involved: The nuances of a single criminal case can take some time to absorb, but four cases all of which are being reported on in a nebulous and tendentious fashion, well, will likely cause the public to default to their priors about Trump.
But the DOJ is pure, you say. I have my doubts: Recently Elon Musk has been sued for refusing to hire people who were not either US citizens or US residents: Even though he claims, rightly I believe, that doing so would put him at risk of violating arms control deals. The willingness to place someone into a catch-22 type situation suggests that the DOJ has lost its moorings. The DOJ was likely looking precisely for this sort of catch-22 to punish Elon for his management of Twitter and his decision to release information about censorship requests made to Twitter that are embarrassing for the government; if he defends himself by showing that he did hire “US persons” who were not US residents, they can punish him for violating those arm control regulations, which likely carries a more serious penalty. Head I win and tails you lose.
The date for the Georgia case cannot be a coincidence: It is the day before Super Tuesday. The purpose is to keep Trump from campaigning and to fill the news with negative stories about the start of his trial on this key day of the election cycle. It cannot be a coincidence: But if Trump is unelectable, why are they fighting so hard to keep him off the ballot? Do the Democrats prefer Ron Desantis? Or is this less intelligent and more purely vengeful than I am giving it credit for?