It appears to be a coordinated effort because Trump's effort to overturn the 2020 election was itself a coordinated effort...
No need to read any further, because this is a false premise. Trump was legally entitled to challenge the election results just like Gore in 2000 and Clinton in 2016. Like Gore and Clinton, he also was wrong - but being wrong not illegal either.
Yes, they could have been brought years ago, but at every turn, Trump and his cronies did everything they could to delay everything they could.
Maybe to a certain extent, but they have no power to prevent a prosecutor to convene a grand jury and hand down indictments on a timely basis as we're witnessing at this convenient point in the election season. The "it's all Trump's fault for delaying" excuse doesn't hold a drop of water.
...But where Trump's cases have been heard by juries before (Trump Organization tax fraud, E. Gene Carroll), the juries have not been kind to Trump.
Civil cases and cases involving Trump corporations are totally irrelevant.
They don't bring cases to court they don't think they can win. The Georgia indictment lists several smoking guns. Jack Smith and Fani Willis are deeply experienced and highly skilled.
Smith is an unscrupulous federal hatchet man with a checkered record. He's best known for his unanimous reversal by SCOTUS in former VA governor Bob McDonald's case, in which his legal excesses and overreach were rejected 8-0. To describe Fani Willis as deeply experienced and highly skilled is laughable. The crowning jewel in her legal resume is the 2015 prosecution of cheating teachers in Atlanta Public Schools. Her scattergun indictments against Trump are legally shaky at best, but she might get one or two to stick considering the venue where the case will be tried.
Trump is in deep, deep trouble and he is likely going to prison.
This sounds like the fervent wish of so many liberals that's based on a pathological hatred of Donald Trump. However, he'll probably be convicted of something in the DC or Atlanta courts, his appeals will take years, and he'll likely never spend a day in prison. Whether the convictions are enough to take him out of the race remains to be seen. So far, his Republican base voters are sticking with him.
Future elections will look normal and trusted as the rule of law will have been upheld, the Constitution will remain intact, and no one will be stupid enough every try again what Trump tried and failed to do.
Nonsense. Hillary Clinton and her campaign apparatus committed many of the same crimes Trump is being accused of and was never charged with anything. She also tried to overthrow a sitting POTUS by concocting the Russia Collusion Hoax and walked away unscathed. If this Soviet style persecution of Trump is successful, the Democrat party will have established the template for defeating their future candidates with smear tactics and contrived charges in various state and federal courts in favorable venues, rather than rely on prevailing in the arena of ideas during campaigns. It stands to reason that the GOP would respond in kind, and then the country would be in deep, deep trouble.
There are larger issues in play with this weaponized government agenda against Trump, far more serious than just political persecution of an individual. The checks and balances of government can't work when the executive and judicial branches conspire to neutralize the leading candidate opposing the party in power. Now is the time for Congress to get off it's collective keyster and do something besides forming committees and launching endless investigations.
