Trump Trials, Election Interference, and Democrats' Severe Miscalculation

There's an old saying that a bird in the hand is better than two in the bush. That appears to be a foreign idea to the Democratic Party, which can't help but overplay its hand at nearly every opportunity.

With the latest news that the Supreme Court will take up the case of whether Donald Trump has broad presidential immunity, that is being illustrated again. As RedState reported, the nation's highest court will expedite its decision, but the result will likely be a trial that doesn't occur until after November's election.

How did things end up here? Is it because the Supreme Court is hopelessly corrupt and participating in an "insurrection," as many MSNBC personalities like to suggest?

.@chrislhayes: The SCOTUS order "was a clear unmistakable sign from the MAGA majority of the Trump-created court that they are with him. That they are going to use their power to make sure that he does not face trial in an election year for attempting to end American democracy." pic.twitter.com/fgrrP0tEw0
— All In with Chris Hayes (@allinwithchris) February 29, 2024

To put it succinctly, no, that's not how we ended up here. Rather, the timeline that currently plagues Democrat attempts to take down Trump before the 2024 election is completely self-inflicted. To offer another example, here's Liz Cheney fretting that the Supreme Court will decide the issue.

Delaying the January 6 trial suppresses critical evidence that Americans deserve to hear. Donald Trump attempted to overturn an election and seize power. Our justice system must be able to bring him to trial before the next election. SCOTUS should decide this case promptly.
— Liz Cheney (@Liz_Cheney) February 28, 2024

What's so amazing about Cheney's gnashing of teeth is that if it weren't for her and her cohorts on the January 6th Committee, Trump's trial likely would have already taken place. That's where the self-inflicted wound comes in.

Essentially all of the "evidence" that has been presented by Special Counsel Jack Smith to support the election-related indictment of Trump was already known by mid-2021. Had the DOJ simply charged the former president by the end of the year, none of these issues of timing would have even come into play. The Supreme Court would have already delivered a ruling on immunity, and it's possible a trial would have already taken place.

Why didn't that happen? The answer is that Democrats and their useful pawns in Cheney and Adam Kinzinger wanted to try to influence the 2022 election with the January 6th Committee and its politically-timed "report." They were so desperate for the spotlight and so obsessed with slow-rolling the process in an attempt to cause Republicans maximum political harm, that they ended up trying to thread a needle that couldn't be threaded.

The original plan, which was telegraphed, was to have the January 6th report cost Republicans in the 2022 election and then time the actual trials so that Trump as the nominee would end up convicted before the 2024 election. Had Democrat politicians swallowed their pride and stepped aside in mid-2021 to let the DOJ move quickly, they would have lost some political momentum, but they would have all but ensured that Trump was taken to trial even before the presidential primary.

They didn't do that, though. They wanted to have their cake and eat it too, and now, they've lost control of the timeline. It was sheer political greed, and it's backfiring. So while Chris Hayes, Liz Cheney, and others cry a river over the latest developments, it is their own hubris that led to them. There's something poetic about that.