Is TFG competent to stand trial????

RantWoman has in fact been praying over the ongoing national meltdown. RantWoman has particularly been holding the illustrious #POTUS45, The Former Guy and all his legal entanglements. TFG keeps setting new world records in not especially glorious categories:

--Only president to have been impeached twice.

--Only President to have been arrested more times than he won even the electoral vote, never mind losing the popular vote.

--most indictments ever for a former president.

RantWoman realizes she may be getting ahead of legal processes here but Thoughts Come to Mind .

Should TFG go to prison?

Should TFG get sent permanently into exile?

Should TFG lose all pension and secret service protection???

Should TFG be pardoned, or worse yet pardoned BY A DEMOCRAT?

Here is such light as comes to RantWoman, hopefully at least slightly adjusted by a sarcasm and snark filter.

Unauthorized. Illegal. Dangerous....

So far the details of the indictment of EX President Trump are beginning to sink in for his Attorney General, and Secretary of Defense and a whole string of other people.

Let's not talk about "Document 19" and the Department of Energy classification system.

Let's not talk about levels of classification so high they have to be blurred out in indictment photos.

Let's not talk about stacks of boxes in a storage room with a photocopier...

Let's not talk about 130,000 people coming and going from a beach resort over the course of a year.

And we have not even gotten to the iceberg of the #January6 coup plot, violent insurrection, and multistate attempts to overturn an election.

Today clips of TFG's interview with FOX News last night are all over all the places. Here is one example.

TYT on the Brett Baer interview

CNN on the Brett Baer interview

RantWoman's thoughts, which may or may not delight prison abolitionists:

TFG is DELUSIONAL. He is so delusional he really cannot participate in his own defense. Because of all the things he knows as a former president, he is both an ongoing national security threat and should be declared incompetent to stand trial. However BECAUSE he is an ongoing National Security Threat:

1. Aside from the legal ups and downs of proving a criminal case and the practicalities of a former president in prison TFG in prison sounds like a bad idea. Prison is a place where lots of people learn more and better criming. IMAGINE what TFG has to teach.

2. TFG knows too much and should never be without Secret Service protection, both for his safety and for the safety of the country.

3. He should never be allowed to leave the country because of the he knows to much issue and because he would probably, left to his own devices, get right to work trying to trade on MORE secrets.

So what's left?

If TFG is found incompetent to stand trial and agrees to be interviewed by investigators whenever asked he could be remanded to permanent house arrest at one of his properties. Strict controls on who comes and goes. NO access to social media, as in anything he tries to post gets routed to some kind of investigative file and not disseminated.

Full disclosure: RantWoman is neither a lawyer nor a mental health professional. Because of academic background RantWoman has been in the vicinity of various kinds of information relevant to the national security state. So RantWoman is not merely grabbing batso ideas out of thin air.

There are numerous legal issues some eager lawyer MAY still be interested in litigating, but the point is to contain and begin to address enormous damage to US national security.

RantWoman considers a pardon completely inappropriate.

HOWEVER, RantWoman suggests the country might also invoke the Ben Pink Dandelion principle that sometimes having someone REALLY BAD AT A CERTAIN ROLE can help everyone appreciate when things are done well.

Probably the rest of us also need to get busy about ways o ensure things get done better going forward too.