Two "racist" prosecutors and a "lunatic" third are preparing to intensify the "persecution" of Donald Trump after a previous one who is an "animal" and a "criminal" charged him on Tuesday before a judge who for his part " hates him." These are the terms in which the former president of the United States has defined the executors of the judicial ordeal that has just begun for him, a torment that will almost inevitably coincide with his campaign for re-election in 2024 and may well extend well beyond the presidential ones
Trump already deserved the title of bulliest and rudest president in the history of his country when, on Tuesday, he became the first to be arrested and charged with criminal offenses: specifically, 34 counts of forgery in his $130,000 bribe to the porn actress Stormy Daniels. But on the night of that Tuesday, the ex-president outdid himself with the string of insults that he launched against the judge and the prosecutors. And, what is no less remarkable: he lost his humor, was unusually silent in front of the press, made one of the shortest speeches in his career and was more pissed off than ever. In short, he went into a tailspin. He was "absolutely frustrated and upset" with what was happening to him, said one of his lawyers, white-collar crime expert Todd Blanche.
In the brief but explosive intervention that he starred in that night at his residence in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, hours after the arraignment in the New York courts, the former president did not only dedicate his attack to the judge and the prosecutor of the Daniels case but to the representatives of the public ministry who are investigating him in the rest of the important cases that he has pending and could make his life miserable.
The most mature cause in principle among those that come his way is that of his attempt to falsify the 2020 presidential elections in the state of Georgia. Observers expect Georgian Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to announce in a few weeks whether she will file charges against Trump and allies who allegedly cooperated with him in election falsification.
The matter has as a central charge element the telephone call in which, on January 4, 2021 – two days before the assault on the Capitol – Trump pressured the person in charge of electoral supervision in Georgia, Brad Raffensperger, to alter the results. in the constituency: "All I want is to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have," the then-outgoing president asked Raffens-perger in a tense dialogue that he recorded and made public.
“There is a racist Democratic district attorney from Atlanta who is doing everything she can to prosecute me based on a phone call that was perfect,” Trump said Tuesday, alluding to Willis.
The Republican leader had already called the prosecutor in the Daniels case, Alvin Bragg, who like Willis is black, a "racist." As is Letitia James, the public accuser leading the $250 million civil fraud lawsuit against Trump, the Trump children involved in running his real estate group, and the company itself, called the Trump Organization. James, the former president, called on Tuesday a "reverse racist."
As for the "lunatic" that the Republican referred to on that night of fury and relief, it is special prosecutor Jack Smith, who oversees the two most important cases against him: the assault on the Capitol and the the secret papers he took to Mar-a-Lago. And, according to a recent report published by The Washington Post , that latest matter of classified documents is progressing apace after the emergence of new evidence that the former president obstructed the work of justice in the tug-of-war he had with her for the return of records.
No one in the United States today can make a serious bet on the possible sentence or sentences that Trump may receive, or for what cases or when. But there is something clear, and it is what Stormy Daniels said in a first interview after the day of proceedings: “The king has been dethroned. He is no longer untouchable ”.
History will judge Donald Trump. The courts, too.
