Former President Donald Trump's bid to delay his trial for alleged crimes related to his effort to illegally remain in power may come back to bite him.
Writing in The New Republic, Michael Tomasky argues that the prospect of a Trump January 6th trial delayed until September or even October should be welcome by everyone who has an interest in seeing the former president defeated once again in this fall's elections.
While there has been some worry that the United States Department of Justice would avoid putting Trump on trial that late before an election, Tomasky argues that Attorney General Merrick Garland likely wouldn't step in to stop it if Judge Tanya Chutkan indicates that she wants a September trial date.
And according to Tomasky, this would put the strongest argument against electing Trump right at the center of the closing weeks of the 2024 campaign.
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"If Trump is literally sitting in a courtroom on Election Day -- or even if he’s not sitting there but, say, Cassidy Hutchinson is on the stand describing that steering wheel incident, or Mark Meadows is on the stand squirming and sweating -- the election is about him, the insurrection, the future of democracy," writes Tomasky. "Your typical swing voter in Oakland County, Michigan, is going to be walking into the voting booth thinking about that, not Biden’s age or gait."
As if that weren't enough, Tomasky goes on to describe Trump has a "uniquely corrupt sociopath who thinks the law doesn’t apply to him and wants to get back into the White House for two simple reasons: to absolve himself of all crimes and to illiberalize our institutions and wreck the democracy to the point that he can do anything he wants."
If that case can be hammered home in October 2024, writes Tomasky, then America owes the Supreme Court gratitude -- regardless of their intentions.
"If those corrupt ba------ on the Supreme Court inadvertently helped make that happen, so much the better," he concludes.
