Why Trump Continues to Thumb His Nose at the Georgia Criminal Justice System

There is a nasty game of “chicken” being played in the criminal prosecution of Donald Trump in Georgia just now.  The former president has consistently violated the “conditions of release,” whereby he is not remanded into custody pending his trial on multiple felony counts surrounding his attempt to overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential election.  (See video below.)

Trump seems to believe, and it looks like he’s correct, that his continued efforts to obstruct justice and coerce witnesses will be ignored, and that district attorney Fani Willis will not call his bluff and incarcerate him, regardless of how egregiously he violates the terms by which he remains free.

We say that there is one set of laws that applies to every single American, regardless of wealth and social status.  Essentially no one believes that, but we like the way these words sound when we pronounce them aloud or in our minds.  Maybe today is the right time to turn this ridiculous platitude into reality and put Trump’s criminal ass in jail.

We have a choice: be held hostage to a career criminal or make an honest effort to uphold our system of justice.