"Donald Trump indicted Jim Comey (and Tish James, and probably John Bolton next) not just because he is wracked by a compulsion to humiliate the people who have the temerity to suggest the justice system should apply to him, too. His fascist project also requires him to completely replace rule of law with corruption, as part of a tool to enforce loyalty."
"On its face, a rocket docket could disrupt Trump's need to feed his rubes, because it would hasten the moment when the whole thing is exposed as a fraud. But it also poses a problem because the professionals who will take over this prosecution from Lindsey Halligan - Raleigh AUSAs Tyler Lemons (who took the lead at the arraignment) and Gabriel Diaz"
Donald Trump's indictments of Jim Comey, Tish James, and possibly John Bolton serve to humiliate opponents and to supplant rule of law with corruption as a mechanism to enforce loyalty. The indictments also respond to pressure from an increasingly impatient base demanding legal action against those he has demonized. Public messages, including an accidentally public Truth Social post to Pam Bondi, reveal internal pressure to produce prosecutions. The Eastern District of Virginia uses a "rocket docket" that accelerates trials, potentially hastening exposure of weak cases. Prosecutors replacing Lindsey Halligan, including AUSAs Tyler Lemons and Gabriel Diaz, filed appearances only shortly before arraignment and were unprepared when contacted.
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