Smith Tightens The Screws

Jack Smith, the special council appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland late last year, has moved with astonishing speed in pursuing charges against The Former Guy*. He is done pussyfooting around and has two Federal Indictments now against Dumbo of Mar-A-Lago.

The latest indictment, becoming public late yesterday, is even more serious than the documents case (aka ‘The Pool Shed Papers”) and could also be bookended by the expected Georgia case, due to be unsealed any day.

Others, such as Barry Friedman (aka Friedman of the Plains) wrote yesterday that as much as he, and many, would love to see Don of Jamaica Estates in an orange jumpsuit, it’s unlikely. From The Progressive Populist:

“I enjoy memes of a mopey and scared Donald Trump in orange prison fatigues, cradling a few belongings on his way to a cell, as much as the next American who has lived through his presidency. But I know — we all do, yes? — there is almost no chance in Old or New Testament hell he’s going to spend a day in the hoosegow for federal crimes; and only a slightly better chance on state charges, either.

Guys like Trump never wind up in ill-fitting jumpsuits and eating off metal trays. (Guys like Michael Cohen and Allen Weisselberg usually don’t either — unless they start working for guys like Trump. You’d think the lot of them would know this…