Trump : toast

Created
Tue, 06/06/2023 - 23:00
Updated
Tue, 06/06/2023 - 23:00
Can we just get on with it? We keep getting teased that Donald Trump will soon be wearing an ankle bracelet over charges in one or another of the criminal investigations pending against him. So far, nada. Seriously, are we going to have to go Ralph Kramden on Jack Smith’s Ed Norton? (A very old cultural reference, sorry.) Again Monday, nada. CBS News: Attorneys representing former President Donald Trump — John Rowley, James Trusty and Lindsey Halligan — met with special counsel Jack Smith and federal prosecutors at the Justice Department at around 10 a.m. Monday, according to two people familiar with the matter.  The meeting took place weeks after Trump’s lawyers had requested a meeting with top federal law enforcement officials. The attorneys for the former president spent just under two hours inside the Main Justice building and declined to comment on their meeting as they left.   Trump himself, increasingly anxious under his Swords of Dumbocles, is freaking out in all caps on Truth Social, as Digby noted Monday. Most notably, over Smith’s investigation into the classifieds documents Trump squirreled away at Mar-a-Lago when he left the White House. In classic fashion, Trump denies any wrongdoing and whatabouts six classified documents Joe Biden retained inside his home and others in his garage after his vice presidency. Those Biden voluntarily turned over to the FBI when they were discovered. Plus, additional Biden papers “mostly from his years in the Senate, which are housed at the University of Delaware, his alma mater…