J.B. Shurk @ American Thinker
For me, the worst part about New York’s Soviet show trial was how it tormented President Trump’s supporters. I kept an eye on numerous messaging boards as the Democrat jury wrapped up deliberations, and so many people were struggling in real-time with the likelihood that Trump would be found “guilty.” In some instances, I recognized the names of commenters who had been soberly pointing out how rigged the trial was for weeks yet nonetheless expressed agony at the inevitable result. Grief can be a tricky thing. Everyone understood that pathetic “Judge” Merchan presided over an un-American and unconstitutional spectacle engineered to deliver a guilty verdict, yet accepting that the expected outcome had, in fact, come to pass still felt like a sharp jab to the ribs.
I think people were desperately hoping that some measure of justice would prevail despite the unavoidable realities that corrupt prosecutors (including one of Biden’s highest-ranking at the Department of in-Justice) pursued Trump for imaginary crimes (transforming misdemeanor bookkeeping actions into felonies while ignoring New York’s statute of limitations) in front of an unethical judge (who repeatedly prevented the defense from presenting exculpatory evidence while enthusiastically violating Trump’s constitutional rights) and a jury filled to the brim with Trump-hating Democrats. Justice died a long time ago. Democrats and their Deep State cohorts bludgeoned it in a back alley. “Judge” Merchan was simply urinating on its unmarked grave.
This trial was always going to end with a banana-republic conviction. The whole sordid ordeal reminded me of the scene from My Cousin Vinny in which Joe Pesci tells a distraught defendant falsely accused of murder, “Hey, Stan. You’re in Ala-****’n-bama. You come from New York. You killed a good ol’ boy. There is no way this is not going to trial.” Donald Trump may be from New York, but he embarrassed Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election, reduced the Democrats’ psychologically unstable voter base to tears, exposed the epidemic of RINO-ism in the Republican Party, and refused to bow down to the Deep State. They were always going to make him pay.
We live in a post-constitutional America whose government works for an international coalition of financial “elites.” Donald Trump seeks to restore the Bill of Rights and rebuild a strong middle class through America-first economic policies. There was no way the Democrat Deep State would peacefully accept Trump’s victories. Ever since Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and the Gestapo FBI framed him as a Russian spy, it has been clear that prosecutors and judges would tear up the Constitution in their relentless efforts to imprison Trump and his supporters.
New York’s role in all of this has been particularly execrable. Attorney General Letitia James and District Attorney Alvin Bragg ran for office on a promise to “get Trump,” an unconscionable betrayal of their official duties which deserved (but never received) widespread condemnation from government authorities and the press. While ignoring skyrocketing violent crime and refusing to prosecute dangerous repeat offenders, James and Bragg have spent millions of dollars targeting Joe Biden’s chief political rival and the Republicans’ presumptive presidential nominee. Likewise, state legislators have rewritten statutes in order to make it easier for celebrity-seeking plaintiffs to sue President Trump in civil court over matters that New York law would have otherwise barred as untimely and which judges should have dismissed for insufficient evidence. AG James has bastardized civil fraud statutes in order to invent new offenses, seize hundreds of millions of dollars from the Trump family, and drive his business operations from the state. In an all-hands-on-deck approach to harassing Trump, New York courts, lawmakers, and prosecutors have done everything they can to punish the innocent and protect the guilty. .. Read More
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