In the long run, Donald Trump is going to win. The recent ruling that his felony sentencing will happen after the election is yet another instance of how the cards are stacked in his favour.
The Ultimate Goal
If you are a completely self-absorbed person, you live your life with no regard for anyone else, doing exactly what you want, accepting no responsibility for the effects of your actions. Then you slide out of this plane of existence, thumbing your nose at everyone left to clean up your mess. By these standards, Trump has already won. He’s been acting like this for the last 78 years.
Trump: a Symptom, Not a Disease
As I have mentioned in other posts, Trump himself is not the problem. The political/socioeconomic system of the United States was created by and for people like this, and the country’s institutions are riddled with loopholes and advantages for these guys.
The Myth of White Collar Crime
For example, many pundits have opined that Trump won’t go to prison, mainly because his felony was white collar crime. I mean, what the hell is that, and why should it be treated leniently? Let me guess. “It doesn’t hurt anybody.” I would argue that when the social and economic leaders of the country flout the rules that govern us, that hurts everybody. If the subject was a black male bank robber, there would be all sorts of pressure to “make an example of him.”
I suggest it’s more a case of “He’s my type of people, and it’s the kind of crime I might be charged with, so let’s go easy on him.”
The Legal System
In Trump’s case, he is working at the top end of the financial scale, and his modus operandi is to tie everything up in legal red tape. Delay, protest, appeal, petition, appeal again, go to a higher court. Then get it all thrown out because everyone has forgotten what happened to start it in the first place. Or else it has taken so long that inflation has reduced the importance of the amount of money you stole. And this continues to work in Trump’s favour.
The Recent Ruling
The New York judge hearing Trump’s fraud case has put off sentencing until after the election. His reason is because the election should not be decided in the courts.
This is good for a couple of reasons. It removes any suggestion that the Democrats were using the courts for political purposes. Which, of course, they were. It maintains the distancing of the courts from the political system, which is as it should be.
Of course, this is another example of the endemic unfairness of the court system. In order to give everyone access to a fair trial, the legal system has to bend over backwards to seem fair, and the lawyers know this. The average criminal has his day in court, accepts the verdict and serves the sentence. The rich criminal plays the Game of Loopholes and postpones the sentence indefinitely.
The Bottom Line: Delay until the End
The older Trump gets, the better chances he has of never paying the price for his crimes. And that’s the name of the game.
PS: Oh Yes, the Election
I doubt if he’s going to win that, but it’s just another delaying tactic. Even if he wins, it could take the courts another four years to work through all the charges against him. Maybe they’ll finally get him when he finishes his term.