{"id":18936,"date":"2024-01-14T12:28:42","date_gmt":"2024-01-14T19:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/?p=18936"},"modified":"2024-01-14T12:28:42","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T19:28:42","slug":"how-far-is-donald-trump-going-to-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/2024\/01\/how-far-is-donald-trump-going-to-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"How Far Is Donald Trump Going to Fall?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/347\/2024\/01\/JamesComey.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18939 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/347\/2024\/01\/JamesComey-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\"><\/a>Former FBI Director James Comey had an excellent article in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2024\/01\/10\/trump-comey-rule-of-law\/?utm_campaign=wp_week_in_ideas&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;wpisrc=nl_ideas\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Washington Post<\/a> last Wednesday entitled \u201cDonald Trump isn\u2019t coming for us. The rule of law is coming for him.\u201d It\u2019s about the fear some Americans have that prosecuting Trump for crimes will result in so much violence from his MAGA crowd that the U.S. should refrain from trying to legally make the former president accountable for any misdeeds he may have committed. For, he has two federal and two state lawsuits against him for a total of 91 charges of felony, and some of these could result in him being imprisoned.<\/p>\n<p>Threats of violence by means of social media or telephone are being made by some of the MAGA crowd against government officials, judges, and others involved in these lawsuits against Mr. Trump. And he tries to stir up these threats, as if it might benefit him. This week he said if the DOJ\u2019s special counsel Jack Smith prevails with his federal lawsuit against Trump for insurrection on J6\/21, Trump warned publicly it will result in \u201cbedlam\u201d in this country. Comey brings to our attention concerning that fateful day:<\/p>\n<div class=\"wpds-c-PJLV article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\" data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\">\u201cYes, there were sophisticated actors in the crowd that day, especially the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys, who operated with seditious intent in organized teams. But, in the overwhelming main, the offenders of Jan. 6 were morons who bought Trump\u2019s lies. They must be held accountable \u2014 every last one of them \u2014 but they shouldn\u2019t be the monster under our national bed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wpds-c-PJLV article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\" data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/347\/2023\/09\/TrumpMugshot.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-18440 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/347\/2023\/09\/TrumpMugshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"242\" height=\"242\"><\/a>\u201cThat accountability should comfort us. The Justice Department\u2019s prosecution of more than 1,200 Jan. 6 defendants has sent a shock wave of deterrence at those who might otherwise be tempted to take a day off work to literally fight for Trump. They now know it will cost them dearly and most of them have no interest in paying that price, despite his generous offers of pardon. These aren\u2019t jihadis looking to blow themselves up for some reward in paradise. These are mostly people with day jobs who feel a sense of grievance stoked by the amoral demagogue now running for president again. They might vote for him \u2014 those who are not yet felons \u2014 but they\u2019re not looking to die for him, or even go to jail for him. They weren\u2019t there when he was arraigned in New York or Georgia or Florida or D.C. They aren\u2019t coming. Sometimes, even idiots aren\u2019t fools.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wpds-c-PJLV article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/347\/2022\/02\/trump-front-cover-01-scaled.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-15410 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/347\/2022\/02\/trump-front-cover-01-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"246\" height=\"370\"><\/a>Indeed, the United State of America is a constitutional, democratic nation of laws, and those laws need to be upheld by means of our judicial system that is the envy of the whole wide world. The thesis of my book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bible-Predicts-Trump-Fall-STILL-ebook\/dp\/B09V4B4HC1\/ref=sr_1_2?crid=4OJ5VNX7I7RF&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.pVyoccJD4U4IzE8mWl1AQg21rV5kkhmPmA3lkgFeO5yF3WAubhdQamVE4XckzregEFYkKew5_JMp9hdBsiI1WZEIRQPyv3Jt9ZM6bbpKaUHV8_yWNYxpEeWhJ19RVCmLSXw6Idto0g-THPD1Su8S8A.xxF9ug8W26qEBme5Ac2UJ0c4xHknpMDZOZNd8rZ2sas&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=kermit+zarley+books&amp;qid=1705259574&amp;sprefix=%2Caps%2C330&amp;sr=8-2\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bible Predicts Trump Fall<\/a>, has already proved true in that Donald Trump was impeached twice by the nation\u2019s House of Representatives, which is unprecedented, and now he has fallen further as a public figure by proving himself over and over again to be as Mr. Comey rightly says, \u201cthe amoral demagogue.\u201d It just remains to be seen, mostly because of our legal and political systems, how far Donald Trump is going to fall.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former FBI Director James Comey had an excellent article in The Washington Post last Wednesday entitled \u201cDonald Trump isn\u2019t coming for us. 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