The Democrats may be walking into a trap. By indicting Trump for January 6 and for contesting Georgia’s election, they open the door for discovery, depositions, testimony under oath, cross-examination, compulsory service of process, subpeonas, and all the other means afforded to parties in our adversarial judicial system to discover the truth. They are handing Trump an opportunity to litigate the issue that has yet to be litigated: was the election of 2020 fixed? This is not something the Democrats can stop; it stems from the fundamental rules of the game and the “crimes” for which Trump has been charged. From Matt Kane at americanthinker.com:
Establishment politicians and mainstream media have fought harder than on any other issue to convince the public that voter fraud is a conspiracy theory. But unconstitutional changes to state election laws, unsupervised ballot drop boxes, voting machine errors, mathematically improbable voter turnout, and other examples of outright voter fraud that were denied a chance to be presented in court between the 2020 election and Biden’s inauguration can’t simply be chalked up as coincidental. All those things occurring simultaneously make the fraud seem coordinated.
In response to the most recent indictments, Trump’s attorneys indicated they finally have a platform to “fully re-litigate every single issue that occurred during the 2020 election,” of which there were many. The most important issue in America may finally get its due.
Trump’s 2016 victory was fueled by flipping the states of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania from blue to red. Pennsylvania and Michigan had not voted for a Republican in a general election since 1988, while Wisconsin hadn’t voted for one since 1984. Those three states delivered Trump the necessary electoral votes to become president. It also sent a signal that blue strongholds were no longer a “given” after the people of those states were fed up with delivering victories for politicians who never went on to deliver results for them.
In addition to “Hillary Clinton’s blue wall,” Arizona and Georgia were also viewed as potential swing states that Trump needed to retain as previous Republican nominees did to have any chance at victory. Twenty sixteen made it clear that those states would again decide the 2020 election. Suspiciously, after America was forced to anxiously await the results for days following election night, those five states all “flipped” to Biden despite Trump outpacing his record 2016 turnout by even greater margins.
“William Roper: “So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!”
Sir Thomas More: “Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?”
William Roper: “Yes, I’d cut down every law in England to do that!”
Sir Thomas More: “Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned ’round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man’s laws, not God’s! And if you cut them down, and you’re just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake!”
― Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons: A Play in Two Acts
That’s my favorite quote from that play (and movie).