I understand how, after all these decades of Mr. Trump’s barely concealed criminality, it could easily look like consequences are just a thing that doesn’t apply to Don-Don, but…

What you need to understand is that over the years, Mr. Trump has avoided criminal liability through a variety of corrupt means. Those tools are no longer available to him, and now he’s caught the first of several Federal criminal indictments. There are more coming. And, don’t sleep on the indictments that will be coming out in Georgia, come the end of July, or early August.

Mr. Trump should hope he gets convicted and sentenced in one of the Federal cases before a Georgia judge sentences him to Georgia state prison… because everyone agrees: Georgia prisons are much worse places to spend time than Federal prisons.

His only option to avoid jail time, is to stroke out before he’s required to surrender to the BOP, which he may well do.

Mr. Trump’s tactic of delaying things is also widely regarded as a tool to avoid a bad outcome for himself.. and, that works in civil litigation, but criminal litigation is an entirely different situation. If defendants were allowed to delay things, no one would ever get convicted of anything. The system is not designed to grant defendants much of any power to influence the schedule. Sure, his attorneys will file a variety of motions that will need to be briefed and heard, and such, but that’s not really delay… that’s just the process.