2023-06-13 21:48:33
Hearing in Miami for top secret papers found at Mar-a-Lago. The judge considers the former president “not at risk of flight” and released him after the hearing
Miami (Florida) Within the court of Miami the notification procedure of the Trump’s second indictment, the first federal one, conducted in a very confidential way: not only no handcuffs or mugshots, but not even photographers and television cameras, except for a brief CCTV footage. Outside the protest, under a boiling sun, it tastes like a festival of radical Trumpism: colorful fans waving in front of a hundred television cameras, some disagreement with the few Democrats with placards calling for the arrest of the former president.
In front of the Wilkie Ferguson Courthouse neither barricades nor metal fences. Just a line of cycling officers in shirts and small plastic helmets: not exactly riot gear. The dreaded arrival of the Proud boys militias does not materialize, at least as long as the defendant remains in court.
Donald Trump, a life as an entrepreneur spent surrounded by lawyers to play cat and mouse with Justice, without ever risking much, fears the indictments that rain down on him: he knows that, although highly unlikely, the hypothesis of having to spend the rest of his days as a lifer is on the table. Struggling to find lawyers accredited to the Miami court – not a good sign.
A fan exorcises fears by dragging a trailer with a large cage painted on it: dentro Biden, Obama, Bill e Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris. Outside the “guardian” Trump, with the keys in his hand.
Then, to show that he remains popular even as a defendant, he does on his way back an unexpected stop at the Versailles bar where a birthday is celebrated. She greets everyone, she undergoes the selfie rituals, orders “food for everybody”, and leaves.
The colorful show offered by fans of The Donald confirms that the judicial storms gathering over his head, if they involve serious criminal risks, also offer Trump substantial electoral gains, at least among conservatives: the first survey (Cbs-YouGov) conducted after the second indictment drives up Republican support for a second Trump presidency at a record level: 61 percent. Ron DeSantis slips to 23 percent. The other conservative candidates, from Pence to Christie, are left with crumbs.
What is even more alarming for the durability and credibility of republican institutions, 76 percent of Republicans believe the indictment of their leader is politically motivated, while only 12 percent believe Trump represents a danger to America. And so, faced with Bill Barr who considers the witch-hunt theory ridiculous and claims that if half of what is contained in the indictment is true, the defendant is screwed, Trump can reply to his former Minister of Justice simply by insulting him: “It’s a gutless pig”: a pig without balls.
It is probably also for this reason, to avoid other political uses of judicial procedures, that the indictment has been formalized in the most confidential way possible. Outside the dreaded arrival of the gods’ militias Proud Boys it doesn’t seem to materialize. His fans who call Biden a communist they are not interested in the substance of the crimes attributed to their idol. Hardly anyone has read the charges judged sight unseen by a demon called deep State.
The exception is Richard, a seasoned Trumpian, black top hat, red tailcoat and a thick gold chain. He says he’s a lawyer: «I’ve read almost everything, surely he did something wrong, but it has certainly not sold secrets to Chinathis judicial reaction is disproportionate: I am still betting on a Trump-DeSantis ticket: everything is now possible in politics ».
June 13, 2023 (change June 13, 2023 | 23:06)
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