Now it’s four active criminal cases against former President Donald Trump, and this one may be the most serious.
In her racketeering case centered on Trump’s elaborate, ham-handed effort to overturn the 2020 election results in her state, Fulton County, Ga. District Attorney Fani Willis targets alleged crimes from efforts to build a rival slate of state electors, attempts to breach voting machines in rural Coffee County and Trump’s infamous Jan. 2, 2021 phone call trying to bully Georgia’s secretary of state into “finding” enough votes to reverse the Peach State’s results.
Trump also faces one federal case over his overturn-the-election efforts and another over keeping classified documents, plus Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s dubious charges over the Stormy Daniels hush money.
All of it landing as he campaigns to return to the White House, and so feeding his supporters’ feeling that the justice system has been weaponized against him (an impression deepened by the blatant coverup that is the Hunter Biden investigation).
And none of it holding any hope of beginning to heal the country, or even move on.
Trump did plenty to deepen America’s divisions with his “stolen election” lunacy. He’d be in far better shape for 2024 if he’d just accepted defeat like a man in 2020.
Again: Courts shot down every one of his claims then. Time and again, Republican-run audits of the results he challenged found that Biden genuinely won.
He just won’t admit the truth, but only triple down on his nonsense. (The “irrefutable” report — supposedly proving 2020 election fraud — that he promises to release next week won’t move the ball an inch, either.)
Most of America is desperate to move on from Trump — and Biden, too.
Next year’s presidential race seriously risks being a re-litigation, both politically and literally in many courtrooms.
America, the world’s greatest democracy, deserves better. But the fates have decided to test the nation’s patience.
This story originally appeared on NYPost
