Will Trump be charged with a crime?
This is your big chance to think about an array of options and rank them in order of likelihood. I'm sure I'm forgetting some possibilities and that you will tell me about them in comments. I'm deliberately leaving out the possibility that he could die before things are resolved. That's too morbid. I'm also leaving out the possibility that the United States itself could pass away. That's too remote, though perhaps not all that remote to those who are inclined to believe in coups.
Here are your options, identified by letter so you can use numbers to rank them. I'm putting them roughly in order of severity.
A. Trump is never charged with any crime.
B. Trump is charged with a crime but President Biden — perhaps observing that "we are not a revengeful people" — immediately pardons him, so he is never brought to trial, and the government is never challenged to prove the charges.
C. Trump is charged with a crime but issues of law take precedence and, ultimately, Trump wins on the legal merits in the Supreme Court. The case never goes to trial. The government never faces the challenge to prove the charges.
D. Trump is charged with a crime, the case goes to trial, and the jury finds him not guilty.
E. Trump is charged with a crime, the case goes to trial, and the jury finds him guilty, but he appeals, and he wins on appeal, and the government declines to retry him.
F. Trump is charged with a crime, the case goes to trial, and the jury finds him guilty, and before he appeals, he is pardoned by whoever is President of the United States at this point.
G. Trump is charged with a crime, the case goes to trial, and the jury finds him guilty, he loses all appeals, but the sentence does not entail any prison time.
H. Trump is charged with a crime, the case goes to trial, and the jury finds him guilty, he loses all appeals, and he actually goes to prison.
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