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“…despite facing 91 criminal charges”
That turn of phrase has been popping up in pretty much every recent report in the Nine rags (no link; more web traffic only encourages them) about the Iowa caucuses and Donald Trump’s sweeping victory last night, when he secured just over 50 per cent of the overall vote, beat his closest opponents by some 30 points and carried all but one of the state’s 99 counties. The one he lost went to Nicki Haley by a single, solitary vote.
To put Trump’s triumph in perspective, Iowa’s previous record margin was just 12 points.
Reading today’s report in the Age and SMH, you can almost hear the writer’s bafflement that so many Americans could vote for a man in so much trouble with the law. Ninety-one criminal charges, how dare they!
Well, if some attention had been paid to just one of those cases, the accusations of conspiracy to alter the 2020 vote in Georgia, it might not be such a mystery.
Over the past week and barely reported in Australia, it has been revealed that the Georgia district attorney, Fani Willis, the driving force behind the case, appointed her inexperienced boyfriend, Nathan Wade, as the lead prosecutor and blessed him with a base salary of $186,000, far more than any other of the state’s professional prosecutors receive. On top of that, Wade has billed the state some $654,000 in additional fees since January 2022. Good work if you can get it.
And not too bad for Ms Willis as well, who has accompanied him on a series of love-nest cruises and romantic getaways. Predictably, Ms Willis high-tailed it to the nearest African-American church on the weekend to complain that it was all a wicked white plot to bring down a strong and fearless black woman. Be that as it may, the Georgia case against Trump is now in grave jeopardy, as are Ms Willis and her beau.
Nobody is quite sure where the leaks about Wade’s remuneration came from, but the general suspicion is that the attorney representing a Trump co-defendant was tipped off by the novice prosecutor’s estranged, mightily aggrieved and soon-to-be-ex wife. That Wade was snapped leaving home for work last week with a Glock pistol in hand has only added to the fun of watching what had been widely billed as the case most likely to put Trump behind bars. Where his other cases involve federal charges, raising the possibility that Trump could pardon himself if elected, the Georgia case is being brought under state law from which he would have no immunity.
All of the above will come as a surprise to the Nine comics’ readers, but Americans unbeholding to the school of thought that fancies Trump as Hitler with a comb-over — a “dictator”, to quote Joe Biden — know better. And in Iowa they voted accordingly.
— roger franklin
“That turn of phrase has been popping up in pretty much every recent report in the Nine rags”.
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Not limited to the Nine rags:
from The Australian 17/1/24, “…..the former president, who is facing 91 criminal charges”
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But that article was by Adam Creighton, who too often writes articles fit for the Nine rags.
Good one Roger. and she looks so nice, open and honest as well.
Unfortunately, for her at least I think, if that’s her paramour beside her he sort of gives the game away a bit I think and probably represents the real person inside….i.e. if facial appearances are anything to go by.