Trump’s Revenge Tour: The Untold Twist That Could Change Everything—What You’re Not Being Told
Ever notice how some people just don’t get the hang of playing offense or defense—especially when the stakes are sky-high? Well, buckle up, because Trump’s lawsuit saga just handed us another “no true bill” plot twist that’s as baffling as trying to choke slam a cloud. Imagine gearing up your top legal squad, only to realize the “ham sandwich” you’re serving up is totally hamless—yeah, that’s the vibe here. Cassidy Hutchinson, once pegged as a loyalist, flipped the script with blockbuster testimony shaking the foundations of January 6 narratives, yet the hammer of justice? It stumbled. What’s more fascinating, or downright hilarious, is the Justice Department’s civil rights division moonlighting as Trump’s own personal prosecution squad—led by Harmeet Dhillon, whose zeal could make a FedEx delivery look sluggish. So, can a team this devoted to the cause actually serve up real karma, or are they just re-writing the rulebook on prosecutorial futility? And hey—if they’re this fired up, who’s next on Santa’s naughty list? Dive into this rollercoaster that’s equal parts political drama and legal circus. LEARN MORE
“Take 276 / You know this used to be fun.”
—John Entwistle, “Success Story”
The list of Trump’s failed revenge cases is getting bigger, and this one has really got to sting. From The New York Times:
A federal grand jury in Washington on Tuesday rejected an effort by the Justice Department to indict Cassidy Hutchinson, the former White House aide President Trump targeted after she gave damning testimony to a congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, according to people briefed on the matter.
The rejection of the indictment—known in legal circles as a “no true bill”—was the latest extraordinary setback in Mr. Trump’s wide-ranging campaign to go after his political opponents. The Justice Department has repeatedly failed to build criminal indictments against the president’s rivals. Some Justice Department prosecutors had been deeply skeptical that there was a case to be made against Ms. Hutchinson for lying to Congress. They had concluded that it would be difficult to win a conviction against her.
The problem is that there was no ham in the ham sandwich.
Not only are these people bad at the law; they don’t know how to run a proper deli either. Luckily for the administration, they really brought out the A team for this exercise in obvious futility.
But in an unusual arrangement, the investigation was directed to the department’s civil rights division, which typically focuses on issues like police violence and election integrity. The civil rights division is led by Harmeet Dhillon, a Trump loyalist who has effectively reoriented the unit to align with Mr. Trump’s agenda, including by extracting agreements from elite universities that were favorable to the administration.
It was once rare for grand jurors to rebuff prosecutors and turn down a request for an indictment, given that the Justice Department has traditionally sought criminal charges only in cases it expects to win. But such failures have become more common for the department under Mr. Trump, who has pushed prosecutors to seek indictments even in cases in which evidence is lacking.
Let’s face it. El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago doesn’t have to “push” his prosecutors very hard to prosecute people who annoyed him with the truth. Ms. Dhillon is the truest of true believers. If the president ordered her to prosecute Santa Claus on a B&E rap, she’d haul him into federal court.
(Which reminds me—did treasury secretary Scott Bessent draw the short straw and thus become the Cabinet official ordered to go to lunch at the Cheesecake Factory?)
Ms. Hutchinson, a former aide to Mark Meadows, a White House chief of staff during Mr. Trump’s first term, emerged as a key witness against Mr. Trump during the public hearings held by the special House committee that investigated Jan. 6. She had been seen as a Trump loyalist. But during her testimony, which was watched by over 13 million Americans, she portrayed Mr. Trump as a leader willing to do almost anything to cling to power. Among Ms. Hutchinson’s disclosures was how Mr. Trump, despite knowing that the crowd assembled on the National Mall might have been armed and violent, encouraged people to march toward the Capitol.
In doing so, she demonstrated more public courage than every member of this administration combined. Compared to that, beating these clowns in court must have been a milk run.




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