The OLD Philosopher – John M. Miller
Two days ago the House January 6 Committee had a public hearing on the riotous attempt to reverse the election of 2020. By a 9-0 vote, they approved subpoenaing ex-President Trump to appear before the committee. Also by a 9-0 vote, the Supreme Court refused to hear his appeal regarding the Justice Department’s seizure of the hundreds of classified documents Mr. Trump took to Mar al Lago after he left the White House.
According to some news reports, Attorney General Merrick Garland is ready to indict Donald Trump for his removal of the classified documents. He feels he has more than sufficient evidence to convict Mr. Trump.
For those who still believe Trump’s stolen election claim, wouldn’t it be fitting if the AG were to indict the ex-president in the next week or so? It might convince thousands of Republicans in every state and congressional district that it would be folly to vote for any Trumplican candidates on Nov. 8 who, like Trump himself, claim that the 2020 election was fraudulent. Why would anyone want to vote for those who have convinced themselves that Trump’s lie is true? What other lies might they believe?
Remember Robert Mueller? Two weeks before the 2016 election, he effectively scuttled Hillary Clinton’s bid to become president. Mueller’s inconclusive report about allegations against Mrs. Clinton raised enough unanswered questions that she lost her bid to become the 45th president only days before the election was held.
You may also remember that in 2014 Merrick Garland had been nominated by Barack Obama to serve on the US Supreme Court, but Mitch McConnell held up that election in the Senate for a year and a half until after Donald Trump had been elected president. Then Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch, and the Senate voted him in. After Joe Biden became president, he nominated Merrick Garland to be the attorney general, and the Senate approved him.
Now, just prior to a mid-term election, Merrick Garland might indict the former president, perhaps tipping both the Senate and House to the Democrats. And Garland is presumably a Republican! He might have been on the Supreme Court for the last six years. By a quirk of history, however, he heads the Department of Justice when justice might ironically be served by the indictment of the Republican president who insists the 2020 election was stolen, and Trump himself stole fifteen document boxes of classified materials, which is against the law.
It probably is only a glorious fantasy that such an unlikely turns of events might occur. Nevertheless, if it did happen, it would result in fantastic glory. Justice truly would be served. The man who has turned the USA into polarized catatonia would be defeated in his quixotic attempt to subvert the will of the people. Mitch McConnell, who thwarted Garland’s election to the Supreme Court, would ultimately be responsible for making Merrick Garland the current AG. Garland would pound the nails into two eminently-deserved coffins, those of Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell.
Glorious fantasy, or fantastic glory? – October 14, 2022
John Miller is Pastor of The Chapel Without Walls on Hilton Head Island, SC. More of his writings may be viewed at www.chapelwithoutwalls.org.