Liberals usually don’t make mistakes like this.
But there is no taking it back now.
And Rachel Maddow let a secret slip that will ruin Jack Smith.
Members of the corporate media could not contain their glee over Jack Smith filing a bogus 37-count indictment against Trump.
In her exuberance, Maddow spoke a truth that Democrats aren’t supposed to admit is real.
Ever since Democrats and their allies at the FBI began their witch hunts against Donald Trump, corporate media outlets trotted out a parade of left-wing former federal prosecutors to drum home the message that prosecutors walk in the light and pursue truth and justice regardless of political affiliation or motive.
Maddow destroyed that storyline with her admission on Joy Reid’s MSNBC show.
The prospect of Donald Trump trying to strike a plea deal with Smith came up.
And like all members of the corporate media Maddow treated the indictment – which is nothing more than unproven allegations made by the government – as a Biblical truth.
Maddow claimed the strength of the indictment had Trump staring down the barrel of a 400-year prison term, which would amount to Joe Biden sentencing Trump to death.
“I can’t imagine him pleading guilty to anything. Who among us wants to spend too much time floating around inside his mind even proverbially? So who knows what’s gonna happen. But if this is as strong a case as the indictment makes it look and that’s the prosecution’s best case, it will get challenged in court. It will be an adversarial process. We will see how strong the defense is. But if the indictment is that strong and the Justice Department is going to treat this as a like case compared to other people who have been charged under the Espionage Act then he is looking at jail time,” Maddow stated.
Maddow said if that was the case Trump would do anything to avoid jail time which would mean copping a plea.
“What would Trump do to avoid jail time? I guess, I literally suppose, that he would do anything. And if it’s going to come to him avoiding jail time, now that this indictment exists he’s either going to have to win in court defending himself against the charges by saying, ‘Yes I did it,’ is not a good defense. So how else can you avoid jail time? You can plea in exchange for leniency,” Maddow added.
And Maddow floated the idea that Trump would offer to drop out of the presidential race in exchange for no jail time much in the same way former Vice President Spiro Agnew agreed to resign from office to spare himself jail time on corruption charges.
“Spiro Agnew used that is a get out of jail free card. It’s not just that he was vice president, it was the prosecutors assumed that he was about to become president because Nixon was teetering, they were right. In order to keep Agnew out, they traded him jail time for his resignation,” Maddow concluded.
Jack Smith proposing or accepting such a deal would confirm that the only motivation behind this prosecution is to take Trump out of the 2024 election.
The fact that Rachel Maddow feels free to admit that this is the case shows the media no longer cares about American concepts of justice or democratic norms.
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