Opinion | What Makes Jack Smith’s New Trump Indictment So Smart

I lurked on Reddit for years and watched the shit show. I’m only commenting on Lemmy to help it grow. Amazingly, I realized after a couple of days of commenting that people were just venting their emotions/ fears into comments. I would read a comment, get angry, and respond. Then after a while, I would read the comment again, and see it in a completely different light. I understand now that sometimes people can be assholes just because they didn’t eat breakfast.

I agree with you. It's refreshing to see.

Thanks. This is my philosophy. Always choose kindness.

I mean, yes. It's harder to make charges stick to people who can afford expensive defense attorneys. Add in the inevitable political ramifications of these particular charges, and you can see why it was critical to take the time to get this right. And they managed it in only 2.5 years. Absolute light speed under the circumstances

From the article

The charging decisions in the indictment reflect smart lawyering by the special counsel Jack Smith and his team. The beauty of this indictment is that it provides three legal frameworks that prosecutors can use to tell the same fulsome story.
It will allow prosecutors to put on a compelling case that will hold Mr. Trump fully accountable for the multipronged effort to overturn the election. At the same time, it avoids legal and political pitfalls that could have delayed or derailed the prosecution.

And further down

A conspiracy requires two or more people who agree to participate. This indictment lists but does not yet charge or formally identify six Trump co-conspirators. Mr. Smith clearly has enough evidence to charge those unindicted co-conspirators but has chosen not to — for now. This, too, is a smart tactical decision.

and in conclusion the author states

This indictment presents detailed and overwhelming allegations. It reflects sound legal and tactical decisions that should allow the government to move quickly and put on a powerful case.

It seems the feds already know exactly his his game, and wrote the indictment to head off as many avenues of delay that he may try to take.

Remember, Trump has decades experience fighting in civil court. Federal court is a very different ballgame.

100% he will, even if he has to "fire" is lawyers the day before the trial begins, which will automatically allow him an extension.

He is no doubt going to try spinning this into a talking point for his election campaign. The same old "they're only punishing me because they're crooked demonrats" and all that shit

But then he's still got his Georgia mess and his NY State mess.

Not sure if there's anything cooking in Arizona or the Midwest states he tried to swindle votes from, but the chance is probably nonzero.