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Trump faces nightmare scenario as top Republicans cooperate with Jack Smith

www.newsweek.com Trump faces nightmare scenario as top Republicans cooperate with Jack Smith

Former Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers is thought to be the highest-ranked GOP figure to have been interviewed by the FBI in the 2020 election probe.

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After watching things get worse and worse my entire life, I have zero faith in this country anymore. I fully expect him to escape punishment and win a second term.
- Well there is literally a law that says presidents post and present are above punishment. All they can do is make him pay fees
  
  There is no such law.
  
  Hmmm. Sounds not right.

After watching a parade of January 6 tools catch nontrivial sentences, including for insurrection, the pampered heads of the GOP have decided that they don't want to wear a jumpsuit, too.
If it comes down to testifying or doing time, it's not really a choice is it? Testifying is only a liability if Trump gets re-elected, and if the man can't win the presidency from inside the White House, it's a good bet he can't win it from inside the jailhouse.
- I think he's banking on a true spoiler candidate this time around. I'd say he doesn't have great chances, but he didn't in 2016 either. I won't rest easy until he's behind bars or chokes on a hamburger.
  
  I honestly don't think the man has a grand plan. I think he "officially" ran for president partly to step up donations, partly to throw a wrench in the inevitable prosecutions he was facing last fall, and partly just to do something random to stay in the press.
  Choking on a hamburder would solve a lot of problems, but I expect one of his creditors will buy off his kids to smother him with a pillow. Trump has done dirt with some shady people, and if Trump was facing jail time, God only knows what sort of embarrassing stories he might tell. I've been expecting Putin to send Trump a pallet of novichok Diet Coke for two years now.

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