Will Dan Snyder, Donald Trump face consequences?

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Waiting for Daniel Snyder to sell the Washington Commanders, which he has turned into a failed state among the NFL’s legacy franchises, is like waiting for the “imminent” charges against Donald Trump.

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The reckoning will come any day now. Just wait – longer. The possibility of a vote to remove Snyder looms at this week’s annual owner meetings. That doesn’t seem to be on the docket either. Talk of firing Snyder began during the season. However, Jake Russell of the Washington Post reported this week that “Owners are waiting to see what happens in the coming weeks and possibly months with Snyder’s attempt to sell the franchise, his efforts to get damages against legal liability and the outcome of the league’s second investigation. him and the team,” cited anonymous sources. According to the Associated Press’s Rob Maaddi, “The two owners said they were upset by Snyder’s demand for damages but told the AP they wanted to let the sale process play out before taking any action.”

That is if he sells. Two months ago, an unnamed source told the New York Post, “He’s an ass and he might not want to give it up.” Snyder not wanting to leave for his own care sounds familiar, doesn’t it?

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As an unindicted co-conspirator, Individual-1 is also protected by some rinky-dink memo that prohibits federal prosecutors from charging him while he’s in the Oval Office. Today, television cameras camped outside a Manhattan courthouse awaiting grand jury decisions related to alleged cash payments to porn star Stormy Daniel.

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Also, the Commanders’ Snyder saga will continue indefinitely. But the delayed imminence of both one-percenters’ comeuppance created a stopped clock illusion. Glancing at the clock and waiting for Trump or Snyder to suffer consequences for their actions has been much slower. Snyder has been in hot water for years, but he keeps slipping away courtesy of a cockroach’s survival instincts. Both matches are made in hell.

Almost two weeks ago, law enforcement agencies were preparing security arrangements for a possible indictment of Trump by the Manhattan District Attorney. Trump himself, hallucinated that he was going to be indicted and taken into custody last Tuesday, with reports to be delivered by the grand jury on Wednesday. A week later, they are still waiting.

The anticipation of final approval or removal of Snyder’s sale was beginning to consume too much mental energy. Reportedly, Snyder’s office was cleared two weeks ago, leading ProFootballTalk to report that a sale is “imminent” and signing bonus language on Daron Payne and Jacoby’s contract extensions Brissett led some to believe that May 12 was the date Snyder intended to sell.

However, reading the tea leaves contradicts multiple reports that Snyder is using the potential sale as a way to indemnify himself from future lawsuits that may arise after the final sale of the organization. A wannabe tin-pot dictator who excuses himself from consequences as lawmakers turn him on his way out the door and the law closes is a familiar playbook.

Snyder’s sale of the franchise is shrouded in as much secrecy as a New York grand jury or a Fulton County, Georgia, or special federal catch-all net. Aside from the belief that Snyder’s indiscretion prevented Jeff Bezos from bidding in the Commanders’ franchise auction, his co-owners remain in the dark over a potential sale as Snyder. According to Russell’s WaPo story, the Commanders’ current owner also cut lines of communication with his fellow executive committee members.

Clearly, that news cycle was ahead of its skis. But the impending Trump charges didn’t just start two weeks ago. Trump in peril has been a persistent myth for years now. There was an entire tournament bracket worth of uncharged offenses for which he was implicated. (The ex-POTUS has denied any wrongdoing regarding the alleged hush money payments.)

The dossier on Snyder is the same length. Snyder has survived multiple investigations into allegations of sexual harassment and is alleged to have obstructed the investigation of those allegations. (According to an ESPN report, Snyder dismissed the woman’s claim as “frivolous.” His lawyers told ESPN that “while Snyder testified under oath to the House Oversight Committee, an investigation found that the alleged incident never happened.” They said Snyder settled with him because it was cheaper than fighting him in court.) He was given the option to self-impose sanctions after that the results of the NFL’s investigation into the franchise are sealed and likely locked in the same drawer as the Mueller Report. He removed her from day-to-day operations for a year and was not financially penalized while her husband took control of the organization.

He was sued in civil court by the Washington DC attorney general, as a former sales VP for the organization testified to Congress that Snyder knew of separate accounting books in an effort to suppress ticket revenues that would otherwise have been they owed the league under its revenue-sharing laws (the team denied the allegations) and was accused of taking out a $55 million line of credit without the approval of his former minority owners while a A federal grand jury from the Eastern District of Virginia issued subpoenas for the team’s finances related to the loan earlier this month.

The years of investigations, subpoenas, and grand juries related to Snyder seem like decades. It’s going to be a long offseason for the Commanders.

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