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[Order David Horowitz’s new book, America Betrayed, HERE.]
To understand the damage done by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Judge Juan Merchan, and the Manhattan jury in the Donald Trump corporate records trial, one must first understand the most important rule of modern life: Everything the Left touches it destroys.
The Justice Department and the American legal system are only the most immediate examples.
Here are 25 other examples:
- 1. Universities.
- 2. High schools.
- 3. Elementary schools.
- 4. Children’s innocence.
- 5. Marriage and family.
- 6. Children who say they are the other sex.
- 7. Journalism.
- 8. Women’s psychological health.
- 9. Black life.
- 10. Black-white relations.
- 11. Art.
- 12. Music.
- 13. Architecture.
- 14. The military.
- 15. The FBI.
- 16. The CDC and NIH.
- 17. The American Medical Association and most other medical associations.
- 18. Medical schools.
- 19. Free speech.
- 20. Women’s sports.
- 21. The border.
- 22. Religion.
- 23. The economy.
- 24. Fighting crime.
- 25. America’s major cities.
In the case of the Trump trial, the Left has done something never done before in American history: put on trial a former president and the opposition political party candidate for president.
The Left responds that it was morally necessary to do something heretofore associated only with corrupt dictatorships because Donald Trump had engaged in criminal activities that heretofore no presidential candidate or ex-president has ever engaged in. And “no one is above the law.”
But this response is a lie. The reason for the trial was the same reason dictatorships put opponents on trial: to prevent them from assuming or regaining power.
When dictatorships do this, such as in the former Soviet Union, we call it a show trial — because the verdict has been predetermined. The “hush money trial” was such a trial. The first such trial of an American president and head of the opposition in American history.
You don’t have to be a Trump supporter to recognize the trial as such.
Jonathan Turley — not a Trump supporter — a professor of law at George Washington University, has perfectly made the case for this being a show trial.
First, regarding the judge, Turley wrote:
“CNN legal analyst Elie Honig recently wrote that there should be concern over a judge being appointed (not randomly selected) who is not just a Biden donor but someone who has earmarked donations for [in the judge’s own words], ‘resisting the Republican Party and Donald Trump’s radical right-wing legacy.'”
“Adding to these concerns,” Turley writes, “is the movement of the third-highest official in the Biden Justice Department to the staff of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg to build the case against Trump. Before joining the case, Matthew Colangelo was also paid by the Democratic National Committee [DNC] for ‘political consulting.’ So Trump was convicted in a trial with a Biden donor judge, who has a daughter who is a major Democratic operative, a lead prosecutor previously paid as a DNC political consultant and a jury selected in a district that voted roughly 90% against Trump.”
Second, regarding the charges and the trial itself, Turley notes:
“Even liberal legal analysts have admitted that the case against Trump was unprecedented and would not have been brought against anyone other than Trump …
“The trial itself was a travesty. Even after sitting in the courtroom watching the trial and the verdict, I still have no idea what Trump was convicted of in the case …
“This was a thrill-kill conviction, and the response of many in the media bordered on the indecent. For many outside of Manhattan, the scene was repulsive and chilling. You can hate Donald Trump but still be repelled by the use of the criminal justice system for political purposes.”
Even the Trump-loathing Sen. Mitt Romney agrees. He told The Atlantic, a publication allied with the Democratic Party: “Bragg should have settled the case against Trump, as would have been the normal procedure. But he made a political decision. … Democrats think they can put out the Trump fire with oxygen. It’s political malpractice.”
Andrew C. McCarthy, a former assistant United States attorney for the Southern District of New York (which includes Manhattan) and no Trump fan, writes:
“The country we love has become unlovely. … Our system embodied the rule of law, the sturdy undercarriage of a free, prosperous, pluralistic society. Now, on its good days, it’s a clown show. On the bad days — there are far too many of those — it’s a political weapon. …
“As the rule of law degrades into the rule of partisan lawyers, a constitutional republic inexorably decays into a banana republic. And it won’t take long. Again, this isn’t about Trump. …
“To objective, experienced eyes, Alvin Bragg’s prosecution of Trump shocks the conscience. … The DA did not so much find a crime as manufacture one.”
What Bragg did was to turn a misdemeanor — whose statute of limitations had expired — into a felony under a New York statute that requires an accompanying crime without ever explaining what that secondary crime was. Indeed, McCarthy observes,
“the two federal entities that Congress endowed with exclusive authority to prosecute Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) violations, the Justice Department and the Federal Election Commission, had thoroughly investigated Trump and determined not to take action. … Had this been a federal prosecution, Justice Department guidelines would have barred Bragg from slicing a single, trivial, nonviolent offense into 34 counts.”
As regards Judge Merchan, McCarthy writes: “Merchan ensured that actual federal law would not intrude. He denied Trump’s defense the right to call former FEC commissioner Bradley Smith, who would have explained” how Trump paying Stormy Daniels not to speak publicly about her allegation that she and Mr. Trump had once engaged in a one-night stand was “Bragg’s fairy tale that Trump stole the 2016 election by skirting FECA reporting requirements” and was “utter fiction, in addition to being legal nonsense.”
In other words, the corrupt judge prevented the most important expert defense witness from testifying on Trump’s behalf.
But the Left got what it wanted: the right to label President Trump, in the words of the lead editorial in the similarly corrupt New York Times, “Donald Trump, Felon.”
We are bequeathing our children and grandchildren a completely different country than the one our parents, grandparents and Founders bequeathed to us.
Well, it’s clear that the Left is trying to destroy the country. So there’s that.
This smells exactly like what happened in Brasil to Bolosanaro
The New York Daily Sewer(News) like t he New York Slimes is leftists Propaganda at its worst and their still losing their Readers and Subscribers
America’s foreign enemies are cheering the Trump conviction. They want Biden Redux, another 4 years of weakening the USA from within. American voters, especially the Mushy Middle but even the dimmest of Dems should think about that.
The Left (see, Democratic Party) likes us being perceived as a big pile of mush. They don’t like us. They relentlessly tar us as a “settler colonial,” institutionally racist, slave holding, capitalist, oppressive country. So, for them, the worse the better. And they control the information environment.
He’s not part of the establishment therefore he’s got to go.
The establishment hates ALL opposition.
Everything Trump did was undone, everything Brexit did was undone, this is a global problem created by the United Nations.
You omitted “History”. That by itself is the most edited & revised subject on this planet as it now omits all facts that contradict the Left’s viewpoint and its bastardry percolates and permeates into every other subject or part of life.
What is more is that the Left is quite open about doing so and actually boasts about it, and so we are left with the absolute lies about racism:
(Asia is more racist than the any western country…travel there with a black African and see how they respond to him);
and slavery (endemic in the world and even up until now while most slaves historically were white. with Africa who had been enslaving its own people for millennia suddenly becoming a source of slaves once whites were too difficult to take as slaves. ALL muslim countries were run by the work of slaves, The stopping of the Barbary pirates (slave collectors) resulted in the collapse of all 4 muslim barbary states within 50 years).
All history textbooks published since 1960 are suspect while even some in the period 1945 to 1960 can be unreliable. Read Keith Windschuttle: one of the last remaining non-Leftist true historians.
I wonder if Alvin Bragg knowsvwhat happened to Genrikh Gregoryevicj Yagoda.
Yep, typical of all totalitarian regimes: They eventually eat their own. Genrikh Grigoryevich Yagoda (Russian: Ге́нрих Григо́рьевич Яго́да, romanized: Genrikh Grigor’yevich Yagoda, born Yenokh Gershevich Iyeguda; 7 November 1891 – 15 March 1938) was a Soviet secret police official who served as director of the NKVD, the Soviet Union’s security and intelligence agency, from 1934 to 1936. Appointed by Joseph Stalin, Yagoda supervised arrests, show trials, and executions of the Old Bolsheviks Lev Kamenev and Grigory Zinoviev, climactic events of the Great Purge. Yagoda also supervised construction of the White Sea–Baltic Canal with Naftaly Frenkel, using penal labor from the gulag system, during which 12,000–25,000 laborers died.
Like many Soviet NKVD officers who conducted political repression, Yagoda himself ultimately became a victim of the Purge. He was demoted from the directorship of the NKVD in favor of Nikolai Yezhov- Yagoda was a defendant at the Trial of the Twenty-One, the last of the major Soviet show trials of the 1930s. Following his confession at the trial, Yagoda was found guilty and shot..
According to Alexander Solzhenitsyn, in The GulagvArchipelago, translated by Thomas P. Whitney, London : Fontova, 1974, page 411, up to the last minute, Yagoda, may his name be erased, was counting on Stalin, may his name be erased, to bail him out.
The article seems to concede that a misdemeanor happened. Not so! Attorney’s invoices were recorded as legal expense. Even if these included the cost of the NDA (which is not an illegal contract), the entry is still not fraudulent because its cost was immaterial to the activities of the Trump Organization. All of the genius attorneys commenting on this show trial farce get lost in the legal maneuvering and have zero knowledge of accounting.
The thing I never understood about this case is why Trump did not just pay Stormy Daniels off out of his personal checking account and not record it as a campaign expense or pay her in cash out of his personal bank account. Then none of this would have happened. Maybe someone can explain this to me.
We fell a couple of years short of 250. Not a bad run.
If I recall, it was Prager who pointed out that because the Left believes that Trump is as bad as Hitler or worse, that the Dems would be morally obligated and justified to get rid of him by whatever means it takes. Whatever criminal acts they feel they must resort to, their conscience will be clear because they’re convinced that what they do is towards a greater good.
They have no conscience to clear. They have no integrity or belief in objective morality so there are no guard rails on their behavior, as we have just seen in a Manhattan courtroom.
Alvin Bragg and Juan Merchan need to go to prison.
The state of New York needs to reimburse President
Trump for all his legal expenses.
I recently served as the Treasurer of my condominium association. We had an attorney who sued unit owners for delinquent condo fees. The attorney advanced funds for the recording of liens, releases, and service of summons fees. He would send me a bill, which included his services and these costs. I sent the attorney a single check and noted in our records that this was a “legal expense”. Did I do something illegal?
Depends. Are you a Republican?
History repeats itself, again and again
Andersonville prison, 02/1864-04/1865 ” I was following orders”
Nuremburg Trial ” I was following orders”
My Lai, South Vietnam 03/16/1968 ” I was following orders”
D.A. Alvin Bragg 05/30/2024 ” I did my job”