The dreaded scenario is coming: a complete and explosive collision between the judicial and political calendars. It was believed, on a political level, that Donald Trump would not be able to recover from the January 6, 2021 assault on the Capitol, launched by his supporters, at the end of a multifaceted campaign to prevent the peaceful transition of power.
However, the ex-president managed to regain control of the Republican Party, placed under his control, and to regain a central and toxic place in American political life. His successive indictments, starting in the spring of 2023, have only cemented the MAGA (Make America Great Again) base around him. This base forgives him for all his excesses, his provocations. She is not shocked by anything: neither by his attempted coup, nor by the withholding and hiding of highly classified documents at her Mar-a-Lago residence, nor by the recognition of her responsibility for a sexual assault , nor by the reduction of its real estate. This base swallows the idea of a vast Democratic conspiracy, fomented in Washington, to prevent him from running again, with the complicity of judges “Marxists” And “hateful”to use Trump’s vocabulary.
Like any very rich and influential defendant, Donald Trump has an army of lawyers, who clearly seek to slow down all the ongoing procedures, based on countless appeals. Their objective: to prevent trials from taking place before the Republican inauguration, and especially the presidential election in November 2024.
For Donald Trump to be prevented from running again, he would either have to be sentenced to prison (but theoretically, he could still remain in the race, from his cell, some experts believe), or the Supreme Court considers legitimate the arguments of the Colorado Supreme Court, which decided to exclude the ex-president from the Republican primaries, in the name of the 3e section of 14e amendment of the Constitution.
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