Don t indict Trump for political schemes

The indictment charges that Trump and his confederates lied to legislatures about the election being fraudulent. That s bad but presidents and governors lying to legislatures to get them to do things happens every day.

It charges that Trump spread lies to the public and smeared elections officials. That s dirty politics, but it s politics.

It charges that Trump got his electors to cast votes that would not be counted unless a court or some other government body recognized them, and tried to browbeat the Georgia secretary of state into deciding that the election included thousands of fraudulent votes. But in none of these cases was anyone deceived the same legal problem that undermines Alvin Bragg s indictment of Trump for lying to his own checkbook. The electors were doing what electors have done in the past when a state s votes were still in dispute.

It charges that Trump promoted ridiculous theories of how the Constitution works. Joe Biden better hope you can t go to jail for that.

It charges that Trump tried to get Clark to use the Justice Department to make bogus charges to intimidate the states. I wonder if Merrick Garland swallowed hard at seeing that called a crime.

via nypost.com

This is Dan McLaughlin, who is not a lawyer as far as I know. (But then everyone seems to have a law degree, do he may be.) But he seems right about this. Dems are no doubt calculating, however, that by the time the convictions from the DC jury are overturned, the election will be long over.