Quote of the Day

The bad news [for Donald Trump] keeps coming in his manifold legal battles, because courts evidently deal in facts, not lies, feints, boasts or fantastical bunkum. . . . The week’s legal rulings come as a hallowed capstone on an already perfect record wherein Trump has lost on every key issue, civil or criminal, in every major legal fight, starting with his over 60 failed court challenges to his election loss; none found any evidence of substantial fraud, though some managed to get his attorneys disbarred. In their wake, of course, more than 1,000 rioters from January 6 have been charged, and over 480 have been convicted – including former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio, who on Tuesday got 22 years in prison, the longest sentence yet. Trump’s multiple failures reveal the chasm between the paranoid bombast and inane excuses his “sycophant Keystone attorneys” serve to the rabid likes of Fox or Newsmax, and the actual (not alternative) facts required to win in a court of law. His fate looks still bleaker now that he’ll be facing juries of ordinary Americans who largely follow the laws he’s brazenly flouted – any of whom, if they’d committed a fraction of his crimes, would “already be eating meat loaf and creamed corn.” In short: “Lock him up.”

– Abby Zimet
Excerpted from “Completely Without Merit,
Every Time, On Every Level”
Common Dreams
September 7, 2023

Related Off-site Links:
Judge Sets October Trial for Two Trump Co-Defendants in Georgia Election Interference Case – Democracy Now! (September 7, 2023).
Watchdog Sues to Keep Trump Off Ballot in Colorado, Citing 14th Amendment – Jessica Corbett (Common Dreams, September 6, 2023).
Trump Pleads Not Guilty to Georgia Racketeering Charges, Asks to Sever Case from Co-Defendants – Democracy Now! (September 1, 2023).
“Trump Is Ineligible”: Top Election Officials Urged to Bar Former President From Ballot – Julia Conley (Common Dreams, August 30, 2023).
“Criminal Enterprise”: Trump and 18 Co-Conspirators Indicted in Georgia Election Case – Jake Johnson (Common Dreams, August 15, 2023).
How the Georgia Indictment Against Donald Trump May Be the Biggest Yet – Nicholas Riccardi and Meg Kinnard (AP News, August 15, 2023).
LaTosha Brown: Trump’s Georgia Indictment Is “Step Forward” in Defending Democracy – Democracy Now! (August 15, 2023).

UPDATE: Fulton City DA Requests Protection for Trump Grand Jurors, Calls Out Congressional Harassment – Democracy Now! (September 8, 2023).

See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• Charlie Sykes: Quote of the Day – August 24, 2023
• Robert Reich Presents Five Facts About Donald Trump’s Indictments
• Sean O’Grady: Quote of the Day – August 15, 2023
• Something to Think About – August 4, 2023
• Marianne Williamson on Trump’s Day in Court
• Jessica Roth: Quote of the Day – August 1, 2023
• Why Trump’s Classified Documents Case Is Unique
• Rahna Epting: Quote of the Day – June 9, 2023
• Jeff Sharlet on the Fascist Ideology of Donald Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene
• It’s Not Just Trump: Ralph Nader on the “Lawlessness” of Other U.S. Presidents
• Chauncey Devega on the Ongoing Danger of the Trump Cult
• Historian Nancy MacLean: The Threat to American Democracy Is at “Red-Alert”
• William D. Lindsey: Quote of the Day – August 12, 2022
• “How Can One Overreact to a Mortal Threat to American Democracy?”
• A Deeper Perspective on What’s Really Attacking Democracy
• “The Coup Attempt on Jan. 6th Was a Warning for What’s to Come If We Don’t Act”
• “My Biggest Worry Is for My Country”
• Republicans Pose an “Existential Threat” to American Democracy
• The Big Switch
• The Republican Party in a Nutshell
• Republicans Don’t Care About American Democracy
• “The Republican Party Has Now Made It Official: They Are a Cult”
• David Remnick: Quote of the Day – February 13, 2021
• Dan Rather on America’s “Moment of Reckoning”
• Michael Harriot: Quote of the Day – January 6, 2021
• Insurrection at the United States Capitol
• Donald Trump’s Open and Shameless Criminality
• Fascism Is Upon Us
• Saying “No” to Donald Trump and His Fascist Agenda
• Trump’s Playbook