DOJ Silence Regarding Trump Plays Into His Race War Baiting Game

[Tom Rinaldo]

Last edited Tue Feb 1, 2022, 11:25 PM - Edit history (1)

No doubt Trump would prefer he were under no risk of prosecution whatsoever, but if anyone is out to possibly indict him, the way it's playing out is ideally suited to Trump's preferred framing of being a victim of Black racists. Currently three African American District Attorneys, all from urban Democratic strongholds, are heading up the only probes Trump is known to be facing for potential criminal conduct. The only State District Attorney conducting a civil investigation of Trump is also an African American, Letitia James in New York, and she comes from New York City.

Virtually Trump's entire "Stop The Steal" Big Lie campaign is premised on an assertion that massive voter fraud occurs in large Democratic controlled urban areas containing sizable minority populations. It is no coincidence that Trump's allies tried to decertify the election results in Detroit Michigan, or that the Atlanta metropolitan area was alleged by them to be the scene of massive fraud and corrupt election officials, or that the Republicans in Arizona repeatedly refuse to accept the election returns from Maricopa County (greater Phoenix) as legitimate. Race is an essential part of Trump's election theft narrative, with African American racism and corruption alleged to be at the core of virtually all of it.

As it stands now all of the legitimate legal authorities pursuing criminal charges against Donald Trump have black faces, and they all either live in minority majority major cities (Atlanta and Washington DC) or in NYC - which has long been identified with ethnic diversity and which just elected an African American Mayor. It doesn't take Trump's propaganda machine much effort to spin current attempts to hold Trump criminally accountable for his conduct as merely thinly veiled racist attacks against him. Continued silence from the Attorney General of the United States of America leaves a handful of urban Black District Attorneys identified alone as the nexus of Trump's current criminal liability. That is a narrative Trump can run with.

[Timewas]

1. DOJ and Jan 6th

Committee need to come forth and add some legitimacy to these investigations, just by speaking out in a positive manner would be a big help.

I have a hard time believing that there is any serious stuff happening and nothing has leaked at all, doesn't sound like the government I know and love.

[lame54]

3. "It takes time to build a case." Meanwhile...

Someone was arrested today
Will see a judge by this evening
And be in jail tonight

All based on a cops testimony

[Tom Rinaldo]

4. It might all be on track for federal prosecution

I am not confident of that, but it very well could be and I hope that's true. Either way though this OP is about an unintended negative consequence of having local officials take the lead.

[Timewas]

6. Yes

I understand that it takes a lot tf time to build a solid case and would not like to see it rushed and take a chance on not convicting him... All I really think is needed right now would be a little more info coming out in order to help ease the general populations"business as usual" perceptions..The saying I recall about Justice is that it grinds slowly but very fine...Or something like that.

[lame54]

2. Someone needs to tell Trump...

Orange is not a race

[ecstatic]

5. At the very least, the DOJ needs to protect them.

DA Willis has asked for assistance and I hope that every single request is being met and quickly.