Trump was better for America
Steyn Online:
~The eminent barrister (and later Lord Chancellor) F E Smith was famously asked by an irritated judge: "Are you trying to show contempt for this court, Mr Smith?" To which he replied: "No, my Lord, I am trying to conceal it."
We have all been there. Well, I certainly have - rather recently, as it happens.
There are times, however, when it is necessary not to conceal it. This week's Trump Trial of the Week is the bazillionth attempt by the ruling party to nail the leader of the opposition on ...something, anything, whatever's to hand. So naturally a certain artfulness is required. In this case, if one accepts as true the charges of corrupt prosecutor Alvin Bragg, Trump paid former crony Michael Cohen to pay off Stormy Daniels. Which would be a falsification of business records. Which is, under the "laws" of New York, a misdemeanour - albeit one in which the statute of supposed limitations has already kicked in. So Bragg is arguing that the expired misdemeanour is actually a non-expired felony, because it was used to cover up another crime.
What other crime he has not said. And, as is now familiar in the State of New York, the corrupt judge Juan Manuel Merchan has been happy to indulge him.
So we are in the quintessentially American realm of the Higher Bollocks. That means so-called conservative legal scholars fill the airwaves conceding that yes, it's an almighty stretch but, in the fullness of time (which, as I can attest after twelve years in the choked septic tank of DC justice, can be very full indeed), Judge Merchan's whims and caprices will likely be overturned on appeal.
So the system works - eventually.
By my count, this is Merchan's third Trump-related "case" in eighteen months: there was the Trump Organization in late 2022, Trump finance chief Allen Weisselberg in 2023, and now this one. A fourth "case" (Steve Bannon's) comes to trial next month. I have been before the bench in this particular courthouse myself: there are an awful lot of courtrooms, and a lot of judges. So why all the Trump cases wind up in the hands of this particular Biden donor is a mystery to me.
Well, actually it isn't: much of "American justice" is stinkingly corrupt. QED.
So the system doesn't work.
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The left's response to the Trump presidency is more than passing strange. Things were clearly better under Trump than Biden. Inflation was under better control and there were no major wars as they are now in Europe and the Middle East. The Trump economy was much better than the Biden economy. The attempt to criminalize Trump seems obviously misplaced.
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Trump Apocalypse Hysteria Is Spiraling Into Madness
Do you think they really believe this stuff?
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