Both Mirengoff And Hinderaker Are Positively Frothing — About Some College Functionary “Possibly” Resigning. YAWN.

These sorts of resignations (if one should occur) happen every day. They are scarcely news, even in the small college towns in which they occasionally occur (Philly or Cambridge).

But tonight both of these chuckleheads are crowing about the mere possibility of one — after decades of being among the most vocal opponents of academic campus “speech codes”. [And the claim the boys NOW make is that the campus speech codes… are not stringent enough. “Irony — it’s for me!”]

What has changed? Well — they see new pockets of donor money as a possibility — most of all.

Conveniently, it also allows them to avoid opining on the ongoing attempts to intimidate witnesses, and court staff — and to generally obstruct justice in a felony case, in DC — these attempts coming from none other than the mouth (and keypad) of their presumptive GOP nominee (as both have admitted).

What the rest of the world thinks is newsworthy — in the sense that Capone and Dillinger were… these boys scarcely even mention. Their guy is going down, just like Capone, and Dillinger. And going down soon.

So — don’t expect them talk at all about this excellent on the law federal appeal / DC Circuit opinion, of 68 pages — just published:

… One official explained: “After the President tweeted at me by name, calling me out the way that he did, the threats became much more specific, much more graphic, and included not just me by name but included members of my family by name, their ages, our address, pictures of our home. Just every bit of detail that you could imagine. That was what changed with that tweet.” Special Counsel Mot. 3; Indictment ¶ 42….

Many of former President Trump’s public statements attacking witnesses, trial participants, and court staff pose a danger to the integrity of these criminal proceedings. That danger is magnified by the predictable torrent of threats of retribution and violence that the district court found follows when Mr. Trump speaks out forcefully against individuals in connection with this case and the 2020 election aftermath on which the indictment focuses….

The district court appropriately found that those threats and harassment undermine the integrity of this criminal proceeding by communicating directly or indirectly with witnesses and potential witnesses about their testimony, evidence, and cooperation in the justice process. They also impede the administration of justice by exposing counsel and members of the court’s and counsel’s staffs to fear and intimidating pressure. The First Amendment does not afford trial participants, including defendants, free rein to use their knowledge or position within the trial as a tool for encumbering the judicial process….

All this hullabaloo over some academics — who (perhaps naively / stupidly) fell into a rhetorical trap set by a pungent MAGA congress-woman? It is just a diversion.

No one really cares, boys, as the real “speech crimes” are Tangerine’s threatening of felony witnesses, judges and court staff — and their families.

Where is your “speech code” outrage, on that?! That course of conduct / speech is ALREADY a separate felony — under 18 USC § 1512.

It is called witness tampering. You kids should be reporting on your boy — he’s been doing it all day, every day — for months.

“Code” that, for “context“, chuckleheads.

Out.