October 6, 2020--Nolo Contendere

Many feel that the reason Trump clings so tenaciously to the presidency is because he fears that the minute he leaves office he will face criminal prosecution.  

Not at the federal level but by New York City and New York state prosecutors, who, among other things, could hold him accountable for crimes for which he could not be pardoned.  

The most likely charge would be that he committed bank fraud when he applied to Deutsche Bank for hundreds of millions of dollars of loans he needed to bail him out of numerous collapsing real estate ventures.

For those who will not be satisfied until they see Trump perp-walked in shackles to a patty wagon there is no possibility of a deal that would put a lot of this mess behind us. But for others who also want to see Trump held responsible for his crimes a reasonably satisfying deal might be possible. It looks something like this--

The New York City district attorney,  Cy Vance, requires Trump to plead nolo contendere ("no contest") to a number of crimes and misdemeanors. This avoids a trial and the likelihood that it would be almost impossible to find 12 jurors who do not include at least two Trumpers who would vote to find him not guilty of even an open and shut case of first degree murder.

Such a deal, though far from ideal, would likely require the DA to agree not to prosecute Trump's children.

This is not an easy arrangement for Progressives to swallow but it would put a lot of the nightmare we have endured for four years to rest and we would then be able to move on to larger issues such as healing our divided nation.