Former President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he has received a letter informing him that he is a target of the Justice Department’s investigation into efforts to undo the results of the 2020 presidential election.
And this one’s probably not going to be in front of a Trump-appointed judge in a Republican-controlled circuit in a county full of Trump-voting prospective jurors who also suffer from whatever brain parasite makes someone choose to live in Florida.
(he may well “randomly” be assigned to one of his DC district appointees, but none of them are anywhere near as bad as Cannon, and the DC Circuit is far, far less Trump-friendly than the 11th)
I’ve heard rumors stating basically that’s the exact reason Smith indicted him at that Florida court for the documents, stating that the law insisted he do so where the crime was committed
That way he could do the big one in DC, which is wildly Blue, and nobody could blame him
You typically bring the federal case in the circuit where the crime was committed. In the case of the classified documents, that’s Florida. An argument could be made for DC, since that’s where Trump removed the documents, or New Jersey, since there’s evidence that he had documents in his club in Bedminster. However, the bulk of the evidence points to Mar-A-Lago so Florida is where the documents case goes.
The insurrection case, though, happened in DC and will take place there. Trump’s not going to get a Judge Cannon in DC. Nor can he hope that his lawyers get a rabid Trump supporter in the jury willing to lock up all deliberations no matter the evidence.
And this one’s probably not going to be in front of a Trump-appointed judge in a Republican-controlled circuit in a county full of Trump-voting prospective jurors who also suffer from whatever brain parasite makes someone choose to live in Florida.
(he may well “randomly” be assigned to one of his DC district appointees, but none of them are anywhere near as bad as Cannon, and the DC Circuit is far, far less Trump-friendly than the 11th)
I’ve heard rumors stating basically that’s the exact reason Smith indicted him at that Florida court for the documents, stating that the law insisted he do so where the crime was committed
That way he could do the big one in DC, which is wildly Blue, and nobody could blame him
You typically bring the federal case in the circuit where the crime was committed. In the case of the classified documents, that’s Florida. An argument could be made for DC, since that’s where Trump removed the documents, or New Jersey, since there’s evidence that he had documents in his club in Bedminster. However, the bulk of the evidence points to Mar-A-Lago so Florida is where the documents case goes.
The insurrection case, though, happened in DC and will take place there. Trump’s not going to get a Judge Cannon in DC. Nor can he hope that his lawyers get a rabid Trump supporter in the jury willing to lock up all deliberations no matter the evidence.
You nailed it
I hope you’re right.