• tburkhol@lemmy.world
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    I think some of them are deluded enough to think that it really is like an impeachment and any jury is going to be hopelessly deadlocked between its Democratic and Republican members. Or that the deep state will work its magic, retire all the prosecutors, and there will never even be trials.

    I mean, these are generally not smart people with firm grip on reality we’re talking about.

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      Well, the Georgia legislature already has members trying to get rid of Fani Willis, and if they can stall them out that long, the federal cases will disappear under the next Republican president.

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        Yeah but that’s not happening, it’s nowhere near the same situation as the impeachments. Kemp is ensuring Fanni is left alone by that bullshit so she can focus on the case.

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          Very true. But Kemp is taking a hands off policy in regard to Fani Willis only because he wants his own shot at the White House in 2028 and he thinks the Trump supporters – who turn on whoever Trump wants, whenever he whistles for them – won’t remember. And he’s probably right about that.

          But what Kemp will not do, IMO, is take a proactive stance to either benefit or harm Trump, because that lumps him in with all the 2024 crowd who are being judged by MAGAs specifically on their loyalty to Trump, and could bring to the forefront of all GOP campaign coverage everything he has not done to help Trump. He wants no part of 2024 and is keeping his shot clean for 2028, steering very clear of anything the GOP could later claim as a loyalty test at the wrong moment.

          So count on Gov. Kemp bravely and courageously standing quietly back through the whole affair, way back at the back in the shadows hoping no one notices he’s still governor, while Fani Willis takes all the heat from the rabid MAGA Trump followers . . . and remember that if he can ever gain by knifing her in the back, he will not hesitate to change course.