Come Monday morning it will have been a week since the far right Supreme Court further throttled Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith’s conspiracy case against convicted felon former President Trump for his failed post-2020 election coup attempt and, minus one federal holiday for the Fourth of July, about three and a half working days have gone by without any response from Smith’s team on what the next step is going to be in the pre-trial motions that can now continue.
Most in the media are, not entirely incorrectly, more focused on the fact that the Supremes just gave the fat fuck a blank check to do whatever he wants if elected again, but the whole reason they made that ruling in the first place is that Team Orange successfully gamed the system he had already rigged and got their interlocutory appeal for “presidential immunity” decided there.
It’s far from over though. Most legal commentators see libs getting a consolation prize of a “mini-trial” in which Smith will have to present to Judge Tanya Chutkan evidence to see if it colors inside the lines of the MAGA majority’s intentionally vague definition of what is and isn’t an official act, all of it expected to be at least as politically damaging on the scale of the House January 6th Committee hearings. Maybe worse, if you want to indulge in some speculation floated earlier this year.
Another option fewer commentators have raised is that the trial is still doable in September if Smith rips out everything that implicates an official act and files a superseding indictment covering only what Trump did as a candidate but it’s unlikely to work given the way the ruling was precision designed to make seemingly everything Trump did potentially an at least “semi-official act” and thus subject to appellate review, allowing him to keep running out the clock past November.
All that said, Smith knows what he’s doing – and no reason to doubt his tenacity since he’s kicked the absolute shit out of Trump every time the playing field was actually even – and we had expected he would’ve had his next motion in DC ready to go last week immediately after Los Supremos remanded the case to the circuit court. As far as the case itself is concerned this ruling was more or less obvious enough ahead of time so he should have been back in Chutkan’s court quickly.
Yet here we are, reminding readers that nothing’s happened, trying to avoid speculating on what the fuck is going on behind the scenes, not trying to get our hopes up that the wait might portend some diesel move nobody saw coming like – ah fuck it – Smith dropping the tapes of grand jury interviews with Mike Pence, Mark Meadows, and other witnesses, implicating Trump in other serious crimes nobody even knows about, the content of his Twitter DMs that Elon Musk fought so hard to resist handing over, and more damning shit that we tried but can’t avoid speculating about.
Maybe Smith and his team are working on slapping all that in to an expedited petition to the Supreme Court to, if not get them to turn around and decide in his favor, make them look like assholes for holding up the trial when the fat fuck is guilty as sin and Smith can prove it.
To be a Trump hater these days is to suffer insults and disappointments like last week’s. That cannot continue indefinitely and it won’t – most likely with the evidentiary “mini-trial.” But dare to hope the silence from Smith’s team just might be hiding something big and ugly for MAGA.
Hell, maybe it’s why Joe Biden still seems so outwardly confident he can destroy Trump when his own support ebbs. We might as well go full blown Blue QAnon here instead of just halfway.