There is a lot of hue and cry going on in Republican circles lately about an alleged effort by the Biden Administration to unfairly prosecute ex-President Trump for a variety of alleged crimes.
The G.O.P. brain trust brands this so-called persecution “weaponization of the justice system” aimed to bring down the front-runner for the Republican 2024 Presidential nomination.
However, as usual, Donald J. Trump brought all the legal scrutiny upon himself by simply being Donald J. Trump. He can’t help himself: he is a narcissistic, egomaniacal blowhard with a lifelong propensity to flaunt laws and then “lawyer” the courts to death until someone in authority simply gives us and says, “No mas!”
Of course, the wailing and gnashing of teeth by Republicans over Trump’s legal problems wouldn’t be necessary if their hero was a law-abiding man. Unfortunately, he isn’t and never has been, and is embroiled in several criminal and civil cases relating to his behavior during the 2016 Presidential campaign, his Presidency, and some actions he has taken since losing the 2020 Presidential election to Joe Biden.
This week, Trump is being indicted on 37 counts of possession of government documents and obstructing efforts of the Feds to retrieve those documents. A few weeks ago, Trump was found guilty of defaming a New York woman who claimed he’d raped her years ago and ordered by the court to pay her $5 million. (The day after the verdict, Trump again publicly defamed the lady and it appears that she has filed another lawsuit against him.) The ex-President will soon stand trial for “hush money” that he paid an porn actress to stay silent about their affair… money which he claimed on his tax return as “legal fees”. Trump is also expected to be indicted by a Georgia prosecutor for attempting to extort the Governor and Secretary of State regarding the 2020 election results (a phone conversation which was recorded by the Governor). And, then there is the matter of the January 6th, 2021, Capitol Riot, which every American knows was incited by the sore-loser President. Federal prosecutors have been working their way up the food chain, prosecuting and convicting hundreds of participants in the seditious attack on Congress. All that remains to be seen is the indictment of the ring leaders in the Trump Administration.
To say that Joe Biden and his Administration are orchestrating these many legal battles is laughable, as many are State-level prosecutions. In fact, the Federal prosecution (illegal possession of government documents and obstruction) came only after two years of polite requests by the government, which Trump ignored and then tried to hide the boxes of loot.
Let’s face it: if the alleged perpetrator of this crime had been Joe Sixpack of Saginaw, Michigan, the F.B.I. would have raided his home two years ago, manacled Mr. Sixpack, perp-walked the traitor in front of television cameras, viciously interrogated him about the Top Secret docs in his possession, and then tried and convicted him in an expeditious manner. Joe Sixpack would be languishing in a Federal penitentiary right now.
The only reason that this hasn’t happened to the ex-Prez is because of the deference shown to ex-Presidents. Let’s all be honest here: Trump goaded the Feds into arresting him so that he could make a campaign issue about it. Not surprisingly, G.O.P. mouthpieces are now making a big deal about the prosecution of a Presidential candidate, as if the ex-President’s retention of Secret and Top Secret documents was normal practice. In fact, it violates a Presidential Order regarding the safeguarding of sensitive docs that Trump signed while he was in office.
The Republican Party, once the so-called “law and order” Party, says that prosecuting an ex-Prez is “unprecedented”. It is, but America has never had a scofflaw like Donald J. Trump become President before. The guy not only violates the laws but brags about it. His G.O.P. enablers in Congress encourage this behavior by making excuses on his behalf. These are the same knuckleheads that chanted, “Lock her up!” during Trumps 2016 campaign against Hillary Clinton.
How ‘bout we lock HIM up?
Donald J. Trump is amassing quite the resume as a politician. He lost the popular vote for President twice (by 3 million then 7 million votes), was impeached twice by Congress, scammed supporters out of an estimated $250 million relative to his shameless “Stop the Steal” campaign, appointed a slew of unqualified political hacks to lifetime Federal judgeships, orchestrated an attempted coup against Congress, and faces a raft of criminal charges in State and Federal courts. He also spent hundreds of millions of dollars on border walls that he promised voters would be “paid by Mexico”. He also undermined the Nation’s response to Covid-19, reassuring the public that the pandemic that ultimately killed a million Americans was “nothing”, “a few people involved”, “would be gone by Spring”, and so forth. Last, but not least, he undermined our traditional allies, sucked up to dictators such as Russia’s Vladimir Putin, China’s Xi Jinping, North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, and Saudi Arabia’s Mohammad bin Salman.
Accordingly, Donald J. Trump is the frontrunning G.O.P candidate for President in 2024.
Just what this country needs… a WEAPON against democracy!