{"id":5744,"date":"2022-08-08T19:23:47","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T02:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=5744"},"modified":"2022-08-08T19:24:12","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T02:24:12","slug":"the-odds-of-accountability-just-went-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=5744","title":{"rendered":"The Odds of Accountability Just Went Up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Way up, in fact. When I wrote <a href=\"\/blog\/new\/?p=5736\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"\/blog\/new\/?p=5736\">this<\/a>, the odds of Trump being prosecuted were about 60%. I would say they are now more like 80\u201385%, possibly even higher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wapo.st\/3p0gFFL\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/wapo.st\/3p0gFFL\">Searching a former president&#8217;s residence<\/a> is a <em>very<\/em> high-profile thing. It is, so far as I know, unprecedented. This means that the disgusting precedent of considering presidents above the law is apparently now at long last dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The FBI and Department of Justice would not do such a thing unless they were <em>very<\/em> sure they were likely to acquire something good and incriminating in the search. Like it or not, the bar on getting this approved was almost certainly <em>significantly<\/em> higher than if you or I were accused of stealing classified government papers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As such, the odds are high they did find some really good dirt on Trump today. Which in turn makes for high odds that charges and a prosecution are in the cards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Way up, in fact. When I wrote this, the odds of Trump being prosecuted were about 60%. I would say they are now more like 80\u201385%, possibly even higher. Searching a former president&#8217;s residence is a very high-profile thing. It is, so far as I know, unprecedented. This means that the disgusting precedent of considering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5744"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5747,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5744\/revisions\/5747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}