The Democratic Party’s Soviet-Style Tactics Are on Display in the New York City Hush Money Trial Against Donald Trump
Pop a cork! Sip on your champagne! The Orange Man is now a convicted felon. Hooray! Ding-Dong! The Witch is Dead! Donald Trump can no longer vote or own firearms, says all of the major corporate news headlines in conjunction. Justice has been served. The fascist has been found guilty of breaking bookkeeping and campaign finance misdemeanors. Woohoo!
Oh, and by the way, the Biden administration just followed in Poland’s, France’s, and Germany’s footsteps and authorized American taxpayer-funded weapons to be used by the Ukrainian government to attack Russian territory directly, as long as such attacks are close to Kharkiv (no long-range weapons yet), and then, on Saturday, bombs could be heard across the city of Belgorod. There is no need to worry about the possibility of World War III, though, because we are too busy celebrating that Trump is now a convicted felon.
On May 30, 2024, the jury was instructed that it did not have to agree on which bookkeeping or campaign finance rule or tax law that Trump broke, as long as it unanimously agreed that he broke one of them, and he was found guilty of thirty-four counts of falsifying records (a misdemeanor charge) to cover up one of those unspecified crimes. As I wrote last week, Hillary Clinton committed worse fraud in regard to the Steele dossier and labelling her “hush money” payments as “legal services,” and she simply got a slap on the wrist, no trial, and no jail time (just a civil fine).
In fact, New York County (Manhattan) District Attorney Alvin Bragg admitted that he was not required to disclose or specify the actual underlying crime (they were secret crimes) that Trump broke when he falsified the records and covered up his affair (again, falsifying records is a misdemeanor and only becomes a felony when there is a crime that the falsification is covering up). So, yes our judicial system and the jury of Trump’s “peers” (in an anti-Trump district) convicted the defendant of an unknown crime (again, recall that the jury was only required to come to a consensus that he committed some crime, not on what the crime actually was), thus taking away Trump’s due process rights (in the United States, defendants are entitled to be able to defend against each alleged crime that he or she is being accused of).
Yes, he was convicted by a jury of thirty-four misdemeanors, but that does not prove that the felony charges were justified. And yet, progressives, who claim to want judicial reform and to lock up fewer people up for victimless crimes, are cheering this on as a win for the justice system. It is like they can easily violate their principles in order to get rid of a man that they hate (Trump Derangement Syndrome), but you try to lock up racial minorities or drug offenders (which we also should not be doing), and they will cry that the system is unjust and rigged (you cannot have it both ways).
And, of course, just like with setting up of four felony trials (in New York, Florida, Washington, D.C., and Georgia) that could have been initiated years earlier instead of strategically placing all of them right during campaign season prior to the 2024 election (though the other trials have been delayed, there is still an active attempt to rig the election and eliminate the political opposition leader from once again reaching the highest office); New York Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan set the sentencing hearing for July 11, just four days before the Republican Convention meets to begin the process of officially nominating Trump as the Republican candidate for president. I wonder if delaying the proceedings for then is any kind of attempt to sway the Republican party to go with another candidate, like the establishment war hawk Nikki Haley, instead. No, it was probably just a coincidence. The Democratic Party would not thwart the democratic process by choosing the candidate for the Republican Party, thus not allowing Republican voters to choose for themselves, would it?
But, was Judge Merchan even supposed to be on Trump’s case to begin with? As I described previously, the judge donated to President Joe Biden’s campaign and to a movement called “Stop Republicans.” Clearly, he was not the impartial magistrate that is to be expected in a fair criminal trial (though the corporate media pretends that he is completely neutral on politics), but the corruption does not stop there. In fact, Merchan was also the presiding judge who convicted the Trump Corporation and Trump Payroll Corporation (subsidiaries of the Trump Organization) of seventeen counts of “conspiracy, criminal tax fraud and falsifying business records” and forced the Trump Organization to pay $1.6 million. What!? The anti-Trump “acting” justice (yes, acting judge) was privileged with coincidentally being on rotation to go after the former president twice (and Trump-ally Steve Bannon in an upcoming trial)? It is almost like the New York State government is intentionally choosing this pro-Biden judge to be on cases involving Trump to allow for increased chances of convictions (this is the position of United States House Representative for New York Elise Stefanik, who is currently investigating this).
Of course, there is absolutely no way that Merchan let his anti-Trump bias sway the jury or the court in the direction of reaching a guilty verdict against the man that he hates. I am not sure why I even brought it up. I mean, it is completely irrelevant. Merchan is absolutely, and without a doubt, impartial to politics, despite his donations. The justice system is 100% fair in New York and across the United States, and there is no political persecution that ever takes place. Just like political opposition leader Alexei Navalny was legitimately charged and convicted of embezzlement in a Russian court, Trump was justly convicted for falsifying business records to cover up some other unknown crime. Of course, there is no witch hunt or attempt to jail the political opposition in the United States (the Biden administration would never spend mass amounts of resources to target and monitor January 6th protesters).
In New York State, there is a two-year statute of limitations on misdemeanor crimes, like falsifying business records, so in order to stretch this out to just before the election and be able to exceed the time period allowed under law, they transformed this minor crime into thirty-four felony charges (something that they would not do for any other defendant in New York, but Trump is just such a bad guy that he needs special prosecution). Additionally, felony charges are subject to a five-year statute of limitations, but again, they made an exception to this 2016 crime (from eight years ago) by suggesting that he lived outside of New York and was president, and therefore, the five-year limit was too harsh. In reality, though, the charges would never even have been brought forward had Trump not announced that he was running for president. This was clearly a politically-motivated case, and the fact that there was political manipulation and maneuvering done just to be able to get this case set for right before the election should show you that it was nothing more than a Soviet-style show trial meant to convince the politically-weak-minded in this country that our institutions are trustworthy and that “no one is above the law” (as partisans and active anti-Trump campaigners Governor Kathy Hochul and Attorney General Letitia James have echoed and parroted to the masses).
Suspiciously, the former acting associate attorney general in the Biden administration’s Department of Justice, Matthew Colangelo (a staunch anti-Trump prosecutor who tried to target and destroy the former president in other cases), stepped down from the federal government just so that he was able to assist in prosecuting Trump. He not only read the opening arguments of Trump’s hush money case, but he was also side-by-side with Bragg until the end and worked hard to terminate Trump’s political career, thus opening questions of direct coordination between Biden’s Department of Justice and the New York County district attorney’s office. But, of course, we will hear the liberals’ and progressives’ favorite phrase when such a connection exists. Wait for it…wait for it…“there is no evidence of such a claim.” We do not like your assertion, so we will just brush it off and say that no evidence exists, even when the evidence is there and simply ignored. There is no further investigation that needs to be conducted, of course, because fact checkers have already said that the claim has not yet been proven true (emphasis on “yet”).
And, speaking of Bragg, he was elected to his position with the backing of billionaire and liberal activist George Soros and progressive political action committee (PAC) Color of Change. Yes, Color of Change, which is funded by Soros, donated at least $1 million to the district attorney, and Soros has been known to fund the campaigns of several liberal judges in order to get the outcomes that he prefers, likely including the witch hunt against Trump (I thought that progressives did not like buying the political system…oh right, that only applies if conservatives do it).
Oh, and by the way, paying hush money to cover up sexual harassment or discrimination allegations are apparently common in Congress. Kentucky Republican Representative Thomas Massie emphasized that a total of $17 million of taxpayer money was used for this purpose (even CNN published an article in 2017 about 260 known settlements), and yet, none of them will be investigated or convicted of a crime. Why not dig up their individual cases and prosecute all of them in order to have an equal standard to that set by the Democratic Party and New York now that Trump has been convicted? But no, we will not go down that route, and the establishment would not want the system disturbed or anyone held accountable (unless it is Trump or some other disrupter of the system). We just want Trump to not be able to run for office, and that is it. He is a threat to the status quo and the corrupt bureaucratic system, so he needs to be eliminated from the political stage at all costs.
To suggest that Trump got a fair trial when the deck was stacked against him is absurd. The jury consisted of members of an ultra-liberal area that is already biased against the former president, and the judge and prosecutor were Biden supporters who despised the defendant (recall that Merchan donated to a campaign to literally stop Republicans). The prosecutors even had to magically turn misdemeanors into felonies by charging him for an unspecified underlying crime that he was not able to defend against. This hush money case epitomizes the quote by head of the Soviet secret police Lavrentiy Beria, “Show me the man and I'll find you the crime.” The United States is far from a free country with strict adherence to the law and standards. As author Harvey Silverglate wrote, the average professional American commits three felonies a day, so if the government wanted to get rid of you, it would not be too difficult to do so. Perhaps there are too many victimless crimes and laws in this country and a government that is all too eager to jump on using them (or even plant fake evidence) to stop individuals who challenge authority or blow the whistle on corruption and wrongdoing.
The authoritarianism displayed by the Democratic Party to interfere with democracy is appalling, and if Trump wins the 2024 election, it would be a true story of overcoming the odds and political persecution (unless the whole thing is theater and Trump is ultimately part of the scheme). If the country divides into chaos and falls apart because Trump is not able to defeat the rigging of the system and the election against him (and he becomes a martyr), liberals cheering this on, as well as the jury and corrupt prosecutors and judge, will have nobody to blame but themselves. Utilizing Soviet-style or banana-republic tactics to secure power and victory at the ballot box is not acceptable in the United States, and we can only hope that Americans wake up to the reality that is right in front of them.
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