This guy will be haunting MAGA for a long, long time

It’s going to be a fun time in January, and the MAGA leadership is beginning to sweat as the consequences of this week’s elections begins to sink in.

As the Washington Post noted on Monday, Democrats “are laying the groundwork for an array of inquiries into President Donald Trump, his family and his administration.” Various business and political leaders are meeting with their lawyers, worried about what Democrats could uncover with this new power.

“I haven’t seen this much investigative activity in anticipation of a change in control of a house of Congress ever,” Michael Bopp, who runs a congressional investigations division for the law firm Gibson Dunn, told the Post.

There are plenty of signs that it’s dawning on people around Trump that he will be out of office in two short years and that, as the latest Epstein report indicates, the statute of limitations has not run out on many possible crimes committed under the White House’s protection. A recent Zeteo profile of Stephen Miller showed that the White House deputy chief of staff is worried about going to prison if a Democrat wins the presidency in 2028. Congressional Democrats keep talking about impeaching Pete Hegseth, and the defense secretary is clearly anxious, reportedly making calls and begging Sen. Marsha Blackburn to appoint him to her Senate seat if, as expected, she wins the Tennessee governor’s race this week. Having a Senate seat would not only prevent impeachment; it could make prosecuting him for alleged war crimes much harder as well.

Miller is worried about going to prison…I hope he is sleeping poorly right now. Hegseth is aware that he is guilty of war crimes — that he is a murderer — and is frantically looking for an escape hatch.

Another major target for investigation is the richest man in the world, Elon Musk. He threw so much money at Republican candidates, because he knows they are his only buffer sheltering him from prosecution. But they all lost.

On Monday, Trump himself also told the New York Post that widespread pardons are on the table, not just for his staff, but for allies like Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Musk has good reason to be worried. His brief tenure running DOGE has raised a whole host of questions about what laws were broken by him or by staff carrying out his orders. He’s also under suspicion of messing with Ukraine’s Starlink access, crippling its defenses against the invading Russian military. This may explain why Musk spent nearly half a billion dollars — more than any single donor in history — trying to tilt the elections in the GOP’s favor.

We really need to put massive constraints on presidential pardon power. The current corrupt president is demonstrating that the pardons can be massively abused, and it definitely needs to be throttled (I don’t understand why our constitution gives the president a power that belongs more in the hands of an absolute monarch).

It would be delicious to see a man with hundreds of billions of dollars stripped of all his wealth and getting tossed into prison, even a luxurious country club prison. That’s got to make all the people worth mere tens of billions of dollars worry.

And don’t forget the entire goddamn Trump family!

Trump and his family members should also be sweating. Trump has often interpreted the Supreme Court’s grant of presidential immunity as all-encompassing, but as Raskin told the New Yorker, he doesn’t see it that way at all. He outlined how the president has made billions in office, roughly $1 million a hour, and that there’s a great deal to learn about where that money is coming from. The Supreme Court’s decision technically only covers crimes committed during the commission of official presidential duties. By definition, Trump’s external money-making enterprises aren’t that. His children are deeply involved in the family business as well. And as the Epstein report made sure to note, some of the crimes Trump and his associates have been accused of committing with his old friend Epstein carry no statute of limitations.

Epstein is still looming over this whole rotten dynasty. We can hope that will all be finally split open and exposed.

My one worry is that the Democrats will continue to be timid — no, cowardly — and fail to take advantage of this opportunity. Let’s hope they notice that the electorate is getting feisty. We’re looking for justice, and if the Democratic leadership is unwilling to deliver it, they’ll be next in the crosshairs.