Abramson: "Reinstatement in August" is Trump's Plan to Head Off Indictment

[babylonsister]

Makes evil sense to me.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/6/3/2033534/-Abramson-Reinstatement-in-August-is-Trump-s-Plan-to-Head-Off-Indictment

Abramson: "Reinstatement in August" is Trump's Plan to Head Off Indictment
Dan K
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Thursday June 03, 2021 · 8:53 PM EDT


Seth Abramson is a criminal defense attorney who has been on Trump’s case for years. In 2018 he wrote Proof of Collusion: How Trump Betrayed America. A few days after the insurrection, he made a case that Trump needs to be indicted for sedition.

Link to tweet

Abramson goes on to say that former guy thinks if he can push his supporters into believing he really is going back in the White House in August, this will make it harder for the authorities to indict and prosecute him. He compares him to Saddam Hussein and other “malignant narcissistic sociopathic . . . strongmen” who “ramp up the threat of violence” in order to avoid accountability.

He makes sense, I fear. I have no doubt that somewhere in FG’s demented brain there is really is the belief that he will be reinstated. But in the calculating conniving cortex, he thinks he can use that belief to rally his supporters to rise up and storm the New York attorney general’s office and the Manhattan DA (and perhaps DOJ and Fulton County (GA) as well) to physically and violently stop the wheels of justice from heading his way.

Threats like these will not stop the authorities from proceeding with any indictments; unlike Trump, they are not cowards. Nor will an actual assault succeed in the end. The Biden administration takes the history of the Jan 6 insurrection very seriously and is prepared to meet any violent assault on any federal institution. I am sure New York feels the same way. (Unfortunately, I can’t be as sure about Georgia.) So any such assault will fail, but not before a lot more people get hurt or killed.

Will such an act of violence move the Republicans to finally do something about the monster they’ve allowed to run free? Silly question. But I expect — I hope — that the majority of the country will take even the threat of violence seriously and do everything we can to keep former guy out of power and in the hands of the law.

[gratuitous]

1. Like a lot of his grandiose "plans"

This one sounds particularly half-baked.

[soothsayer]

2. Exactly and good for fb for keeping him off that channel

[ScratchCat]

3. Good lord, just STOP

This nonsense about Trump trying to "incite violence" or whatever ..... just STOP IT! He is not going to call for anyone to do any such thing. He's a god damned con man. He has no platform. Nobody is listening to him. The damn MSM is addicted to him like heroin. This is all a creation by the MSM. They can't even cite any real source or person he supposedly told this "I'll be reinstated" nonsense to. JFK..... STOP IT!

[dem4decades]

4. Nonsense? He's already incited violence once, and the stakes are higher now.

[babylonsister]

5. I think Maggie Haberman got this

ball rolling by tweeting this:

Maggie Haberman
@maggieNYT
Trump has been telling a number of people he’s in contact with that he expects he will get reinstated by August (no that isn’t how it works but simply sharing the information).

And don't be so naive as to believe no one is listening to him. The crazies in the US are. As for inciting violence, I don't think for a second he wouldn't.

https://news.yahoo.com/mypillows-mike-lindell-takes-credit-035804210.html
MyPillow's Mike Lindell takes credit for Trump's August return-to-power fantasy
Peter Weber, Senior editor
Wed, June 2, 2021, 11:58 PM·2 min read


Former President Donald Trump really is focused on the absurd theory that he will somehow be returned to power in August, two people close to Trump tell The Daily Beast, confirming reporting by Maggie Haberman of The New York Times.

In the past few weeks, Trump "had begun increasingly quizzing confidants about a potential August return to power," The Daily Beast reports, citing the two Trump confidantes. "What's more, he claimed that a lot of 'highly respected' people — who Trump did not name — have been saying it's possible. Both of these sources said they decided not to tell the former president what they were thinking, which was that it's not going to happen."