You are probably wondering if I made a typo or some other mistake in choosing the title of this post. I did not. Bear with me for a few minutes, and you will agree.

A few weeks ago, I posted a piece with the title “Poetic Justice,” in which I argued that the conservative super-majority of the Supreme Court, with their ruling on the absolute immunity of the president from criminal prosecution for pretty much any act they take while in office, were not very successful in their ultimate goal of protecting their beloved convicted felon former president from being exposed for his crimes, and be held accountable. There, I was referring to the fact that, since the burden of proof for whether an act taken by a president is official or not, and if official, is prosecutable or not, is now on the prosecution, they have to present their evidence, at least part of it, to convince a judge that the indictments are valid and prosecutable. But this means that, absent a convincing argument otherwise, the judge is required to make that evidence public, albeit possibly with some redactions as needed. My thinking was that the entire immunity argument was raised by the former president’s legal team to prevent such evidence from becoming public; hence my conclusion that the Supreme Court, in spite of trying very hard through legal gymnastics, and handing down one of the most disgraceful rulings in the history of the Supreme Court, was not successful in accomplishing its ultimate goal.

I stand corrected. Yes, the evidence in the Jan. 6th case, for his involvement in the event of January 6th, 2021 was made public, but it did not catch the attention of most Americans on either side of the political spectrum. Even prominent news outlets did not spend much time on that. As if people have become desensitized to the negative information about the former president. As he famously said during the campaigning for his first term, even if he shoots someone dead on Fifth Avenue in broad daylight, he is not going to lose a single vote. And he did not. In fact, after grossly mishandling the Covid pandemic resulting in tens of thousands of preventable deaths, spreading numerous and demonstrable falsehoods, inciting an insurrection, mishandling classified documents, obstructing justice in returning those classified documents, being convicted and liable for civil fraud and sexual assault followed by defamation, and being convicted of 34 counts of felony charges by a jury trial, his performance in this recent election was even better than his previous two candidacies. I hear there are rare plants that grow better in the dark, so maybe one shouldn’t be too surprised to see someone who thrives and gains popularity through disingenuity and crime!

But the implications of the election results are far greater. Intentional or otherwise, the delays that the Supreme Court introduced in the process of prosecution of the former president for his acts or lack of required actions during the insurrection of January 6th, 2021, resulted in sufficient amount of shift in the prosecution timeline that the decision on his immunity claims was postponed until after the election. And now with him being the president elect, there is little to no chance for such prosecutions to move forward. Because even if the prosecutors and the judge work hard to get something done over the next couple of months or so, he will undoubtedly ask the corrupt attorney general that he will appoint, to dismiss all the federal cases against him, indicted or otherwise. Especially considering the fact that Judge Aileen Cannon of Florida is a top contender on his short list for this position; the same Trump appointed judge who sat on the classified documents case for months and months, only to finally dismiss it, not based on merits, but based on an absurd argument (suggested to her by Justice Clarence Thomas) that “maybe the appointment of the special counsel is not constitutional.” They did not have any problem with the many independent or special counsels appointed at various times over the past several decades or even couple of centuries, such as the ones that handled Nickson’s case, or Clinton’s case, or Hunter Biden’s case, but believe that only this one appointed to handle Trump’s case is not constitutional.

In any case, with the convicted felon himself being in charge of making decision on what should happen to his felony cases, everyone should be confident that they will all be dismissed (if federal), or frozen and never returned to (if brought in a state). Even the civil criminal cases in which he has been found liable to pay fines to the tunes of several hundreds of million dollars will somehow disappear.

So, now you see why I chose that title for this post. It is really not “poetic justice,” it is just a “joke,” and “it’s on me!”