‘Houdini’ Trump Escapes Again
Published in Die Presse
(Austria) on 20 November 2024
by Thomas Vieregge (link to original)
(Austria) on 20 November 2024
by Thomas Vieregge (link to original)
Translated from
by Mallory Matsumoto.
Edited by Patricia Simoni.
Postponed is not abandoned: The New York County district attorney is yielding to the power of the reality in the hush money case against Trump. But the long arm of justice could reach the new president after his term in office.
Donald Trump and the judicial system: That is a never-ending story that fills thousands upon thousands of pages of files and has now gained another chapter. In the hush money case in New York where a jury unanimously convicted him earlier this year, “Houdini” Trump has escaped again. That doesn’t mean, however, that he won’t find himself entangled in legal proceedings again after his term in office ends on Jan. 20, 2029.
Postponed is not abandoned. That is the motto of District Attorney Alvin Bragg. The Manhattan district attorney has yielded to political reality and the power of reality. In the trial of repeat offender Trump, he petitioned that the conviction be suspended for 50 months, so that the new president will not be encumbered by a fine — or perhaps with jail time. Trump is saved from one embarrassment before the beginning of his second term in office.
The payment of $130,000 in hush money to a porn star is a petty crime compared to much more serious charges of election fraud, mishandling of classified documents, inciting violence and threatening democracy, anyway. All these cases also have to wait until the end of his second term. The long arm of justice could still reach the 82-year-old after that — if he hasn’t turned the judicial system completely inside out, that is. It would only be right for him to be tried in the case of the storming of the Capitol. The charges will not be close to reaching the statute of limitations, even if his followers want to laugh at them.
Trump, at least, has had a good laugh for now — with his new best buddy, Elon Musk, on Wednesday night, at a rocket launch in Texas. Two weeks after his election victory and two months before his next inauguration, his opponents wish that they could send him to the moon, and not only in judicial terms.
Donald Trump and the judicial system: That is a never-ending story that fills thousands upon thousands of pages of files and has now gained another chapter. In the hush money case in New York where a jury unanimously convicted him earlier this year, “Houdini” Trump has escaped again. That doesn’t mean, however, that he won’t find himself entangled in legal proceedings again after his term in office ends on Jan. 20, 2029.
Postponed is not abandoned. That is the motto of District Attorney Alvin Bragg. The Manhattan district attorney has yielded to political reality and the power of reality. In the trial of repeat offender Trump, he petitioned that the conviction be suspended for 50 months, so that the new president will not be encumbered by a fine — or perhaps with jail time. Trump is saved from one embarrassment before the beginning of his second term in office.
The payment of $130,000 in hush money to a porn star is a petty crime compared to much more serious charges of election fraud, mishandling of classified documents, inciting violence and threatening democracy, anyway. All these cases also have to wait until the end of his second term. The long arm of justice could still reach the 82-year-old after that — if he hasn’t turned the judicial system completely inside out, that is. It would only be right for him to be tried in the case of the storming of the Capitol. The charges will not be close to reaching the statute of limitations, even if his followers want to laugh at them.
Trump, at least, has had a good laugh for now — with his new best buddy, Elon Musk, on Wednesday night, at a rocket launch in Texas. Two weeks after his election victory and two months before his next inauguration, his opponents wish that they could send him to the moon, and not only in judicial terms.
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