About an hour after Donald Trump left the courthouse in Miami, an email from his campaign landed in my inbox: “I am writing this email while flying back from the federal courthouse in Miami. We are living through the darkest hours in American history, but I can say that I am in very good spirits. I always knew this was the price I had to pay for running for president as a political outsider and handing power back to you: The American people.” At the bottom of the email, Trump is asking for campaign contributions. The Trump campaign is using the historic indictment of a former president to raise more money. This strategy worked when he was indicted in New York in April. Deny everything and remember that all PR is good PR! Yesterday, Trump was more certain of victory than in April when he came to the courtroom. After pleading not guilty, he went straight to a well-known patisserie, where Republicans like to campaign, to be greeted by supporters. Trump’s supporters applauded the former president yesterday, after Trump pleaded not guilty to all charges. Trump flew about 2,000 kilometers to New Jersey to give a speech at his own golf course after the court hearing in Miami. Photo: CHIP SOMODEVILLA / GETTY IMAGES / AFP And so he flew north, to his golf club in New Jersey where, according to the indictment, he showed a top-secret document about defense secrets to an author in 2021. Last night Trump only showed his contempt for the federal Department of Justice but he lashed out at “communists” and a “corrupt President Biden” in a 30-minute speech. Fell by his own lawyer Trump risks several decades in prison if he is convicted of what he is accused of in the document case. Legal experts, and his own former Attorney General William Barr, describe the 37-count indictment as devastating. William Barr has been among the president’s most loyal allies since he became attorney general on February 14, 2019. In February 2020, he had enough, but only resigned as attorney general in December of the same year. Photo: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite/AP It also includes descriptions of audio recordings of Trump showing classified documents, and testimony from one of his own lawyers who says Trump decided to lie about classified documents he had kept to avoid having to hand them over when the FBI demanded them. – Wouldn’t it be better if we just said that we don’t have anything here? Trump asked the lawyer, according to the indictment. “How about this?” strategy Trump has a long history of getting out of trouble. And he has most often done that by denying, lying or resorting to the “but what about this?” strategy that makes people look the other way. Why wasn’t Hillary Clinton indicted? And what about the documents Joe Biden had brought home? By calling the Justice Department armed and accusing Biden of trying to steal the upcoming presidential election, Trump will try to get away with it this time as well. Donald Trump the first US president ever to be at the center of a criminal case. Photo: Reuters Become president or be pardoned Trump’s strategy of turning away, denying everything and bullying those who oppose him has so far worked very well in his own party. But now he is playing a higher game than ever: He must win an election, or help a party member who wants to pardon him to do so, if he is to be safe in the future. And there are still few leading Republican politicians who dare to speak out against Trump. In recent days, the reactions from the party’s leading politicians in Congress and from Trump’s competitors for the presidential nomination have been variations on a theme. Many say that the Ministry of Justice is armed and politicized. Some want to shut down the FBI, others want to step up congressional investigations into President Biden and his son. Those who are critical of Trump in the party are largely silent. Trump’s 2024 competitors are cautious Just two days before the indictment, Mike Pence made himself rather loud and dark when he launched his presidential campaign. Trump’s former vice president said that the boss had asked him to put himself before the constitution after the storming of Congress, But in recent days, Pence has also not dared to do anything other than say that the Justice Department is politicized. Former Vice President Mike Pence has launched his own presidential election campaign before the presidential election in 2023. Here he is on stage with his wife Karen after a party meeting last week. Photo: AP Photo/Chuck Burton / AP Another presidential candidate is the fairly moderate Nikki Haley, who was Trump’s UN ambassador. She also says she will “probably lean towards a pardon” if she becomes president. Although she believes Trump has acted irresponsibly. Few still dare to break with Trump, because those who have done so have been deposed or bullied. Like Liz Cheney, who was on the January 6 Committee and was not re-elected to Congress. And Mitt Romney, who sits safely in the Senate, but is ridiculed at many Republican caucuses. Presidential candidate Nikki Haley believes Trump has acted irresponsibly, but has stated that she will “probably lean toward a pardon” if she becomes president. Here from an election campaign meeting on the third of June this year. Photo: REUTERS/Dave Kaup / Reuters Believes Trump has failed to follow rules – Trump is trying to destroy the political system in the United States by getting people around him to stop demanding that he follow ethical norms and rules, writes commentator Thomas Friedman in New York Times. By making large parts of the party not dare to speak against him by, for example, protesting against him becoming a presidential candidate again, it will ultimately be up to the legal system to defend the laws and rules of American society. And it puts pressure on both the legal system and ultimately democracy because judges are often appointed or elected from political parties, writes Friedman. Throughout his career, Trump has shown little fear of ending up in court, but this time it could be more dramatic for him. Until then, he is trying to win by showing disrespect for the legal system as well. Opponents of Donald Trump also showed up outside the courtroom in Miami yesterday. 61-year-old Dominic Santana thinks Donald Trump should be jailed, and tried to stop Trump’s motorcade from leaving the scene. He was arrested by the police. Photo: SCOTT OLSON / GETTY IMAGES / AFP Biden with orders for silence Nevertheless, what is happening is also dramatic for many. President Biden has ordered the Democrat’s party organization and his own election campaign not to mention or speak publicly about the federal indictment against Trump. Biden already said when he took office that he would not discuss Justice Department investigations. President Joe Biden met NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in the White House yesterday, while Donald Trump was on his way to court, where he had the indictment read out to him. Photo: AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP In his speech last night, Trump says that it is Joe Biden who has put him on trial. Of course it isn’t. The Justice Department’s special investigator Jack Smith, who sat across from Trump yesterday in the courtroom, is not even a registered voter with any American party as it is common for American voters to be. He has kept a very low profile since the investigation began, and he has more in store for Trump. Both a federal and a state investigation into Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election results are still not over. Thus, Trump can be prosecuted for even more before the election campaign is properly underway. The question now is whether it weakens his standing among Republicans at all.
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