As a friend, I can tell you, Democrats, it’s time to face reality. Your candidate will have to defeat Donald Trump fair and square on the November ballot. You impeached our man twice, but with no lasting effect. None of Banana Republic’s schemes or legal methods worked.
The actual Republican primary election was also held, and Trump won by a landslide. This guy isn’t made of Teflon or any other special material. Your efforts are just wasted and ineffective. It’s time to splash cold water on your face and face the music. It’s Biden vs. Trump. Voters will decide.
The fight to defeat Trump, not just defeat him, began during his first term, or even longer. Initially, there was a rush to create some kind of voter fraud and deny the 2016 election. (Sound familiar?) Then there was the emoluments clause that cracked down on President Trump as the owner of a hotel that accommodates foreign guests. Remember, Russiagate is a completely false effort to link President Trump to Russian intelligence using fabricated witnesses and fake documents.
As we now know, the Trump campaign received a full court report by the Five Eyes intelligence agency that revealed that if they could not find drugs on Trump, they intended to use false flag agents to produce them. However, the person may have escaped from the laboratory. . Along the way, there were various impeachments that relied on Democratic control of the House to rig the game (both failed in the Senate). With each of these failures to weaken Trump or remove him from office, Democrats weep for somehow once again escaping a carefully laid trap.
After Trump leaves office, the real battle will begin, centered on New York, which will either force Trump out of business and into bankruptcy, or else try to prevent Trump from becoming president again. He decided to become a spokesperson for the state. It all started with the defamation case of E. Jean Carroll. In this case, the last remnants of the #MeToo movement were repurposed to force courts to admit that Trump committed sexual assault decades ago, forcing victims to remember the year it happened. It went back so far. , don’t worry about the date. No witnesses or physical evidence were presented. Nevertheless, an $83 million civil libel judgment stemming from the alleged attack was entered against Trump.
The following ruling: For decades, under the watchful eye of New York regulators and tax examiners, President Trump exaggerated the value of his net worth and real estate to get better terms on loans and insurance. The ruling was five times that size. Never mind that the state found no harm was done, the creditor claimed there was no harm, and actually made a profit on the loan. A conviction was made because a conviction was possible. The decision included a poison pill that made it impossible for Trump to pursue an appeal unless he first posted a multimillion-dollar bond. Interest on penalties alone can amount to $100,000 a day. New York may as well have reinstated debtor’s prison.
Although both cases are likely to be reduced on appeal, neither would preclude Trump’s presidential bid, and polls show they have had no impact on his popularity. There is. So they failed beyond harassment.
A Wonka-like criminal case remains in New York, alleging that President Trump “falsified business records” to keep adult film star Stormy Daniels silent about a minutes-long affair. This testimony is so weak that Michael Cohen, a convicted felon and certified liar, is the star witness. The situation is so weak that even New York State Attorney Alvin Bragg agreed to postpone it. While it’s possible that a local jury will convict Trump of any charges, the most exciting outcome of the trial will be who SNL chooses to play Stormy.
Outside of New York, the next step is quick, voting Trump out in multiple states based on a fanciful interpretation of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment and an arbitrary decision by the Democratic Secretary of State in blue Colorado. An attempt was made to exclude it from the paper. An Illinois judge has ruled that President Trump committed an “insurrection” on January 6th. Never mind that he was acquitted on an impeachment charge of sedition, and the pending case against him (below) for his actions on January 6th does not charge him with sedition. In a unanimous decision (that’s how packed the court is), the Supreme Court dealt with all this in short order, allowing Trump to send ballots to all 50 states so that people could vote for or against him. will remain in the Democrats, are you seeing a pattern here?
Nathan Wade: Georgia judge rules Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis can continue prosecuting Trump’s extortion case if Wade, with whom he had a secret romantic relationship, is removed from the case Following the decision, he resigned as special prosecutor. While that has been going on, the underlying litigation itself has been hopelessly delayed, with Willis himself predicting that even before the recent turmoil, a decision would take until early 2025. “To call this incident problematic would be a gross understatement,” one expert wrote.
This leaves us with the classified documents case and Jack Smith’s unconvincing January 6 case.
Classified documents lawsuit faces uphill battle, as defense attorneys claim they have access to confidential documents in Mike Pence’s and Joe Biden’s own homes while President Trump has waged a multi-year battle to secure his home. The documents are sure to raise the question of how the charges were not prosecuted. It was thoroughly investigated by the FBI. This is a complex case, involving presidential privilege and the rabbit hole of what is and is not classified. Those complexities are likely to work to Trump’s advantage, delaying the trial well past November 5, when it won’t matter much anyway.
It’s really the story of the mother of them all: the events of January 6th. There is a slim chance that the Supreme Court will rule in favor of granting President Trump presidential immunity for his actions that day (a decision is expected in June), leading to lengthy court proceedings and delays in preparation for trial. There is a higher possibility that it will not be in order. You’ll need to keep listening until the middle of the actual election season.
The Justice Department has its own internal rules that prohibit prosecutors from “choosing the timing of any action for the purpose of influencing an election,” which also suggests it will be on hold until after November. . Again, if Trump wins the election, this whole incident will be over, and if Trump loses to Biden, no one will care about January 6th anymore anyway.
So, Democrats, where does this leave you?
Legally, there is nothing preventing Trump from becoming the Republican nominee. Even in the worst-case scenario, he would not be disqualified as president. Polls consistently show that these legal issues do little to diminish his popularity, and in some cases appear to increase his popularity. Opinion polls show President Trump could win even from behind bars. You wasted a huge amount of time and effort on a strategy that has a low chance of working, that actually works against you, and that the only thing that really matters in any of this is November 5th, which has the potential to help Trump. I have to.
Americans believe that “people in positions of great power and responsibility use the judicial system to try to ‘rein” one of the two major presidential candidates during an election campaign.” I hate seeing it. They are a coalition of elected Democrats, Biden administration appointees, Democratic Party activists, and career legal experts who are trying to move the system faster to actually win a verdict by Election Day. You may find it outrageous that we are desperately trying to make it work. ”
Your strategy is backfiring. No American election has been marked by more interference by the judicial system and more blatant partisanship by the Justice Department and its New York state agents. That is at odds with America’s sense of fair play. You blew it. I threw everything at the wall and nothing stuck.
Meanwhile, the Republican primary race, which featured Democratic high hopes such as Nikki Haley, was unable to change President Trump’s direction. Sitting in first place, he refused to be used as a punching bag during televised debates with his opponents, instead defeating them one by one, cementing his status as the inevitable candidate as early as Super Tuesday. Ta. No one on the right will save you, Democrats.
You just win or lose the old-fashioned way.
The New York Times comes to the same conclusion from a completely different angle: President Trump must be guilty of something to persuade Americans to vote as if democracy were on the brink of death. He must be found guilty, the editorial said. Slate writes, “It’s clear that if anyone is going to save American democracy, it’s voters…” While we are watching and cheering in the stands, it confuses us into thinking that someone will come running towards us…. We need to stop the deception that a majority of the Supreme Court recognizes the same political imperative as many of us when it comes to the threat that President Trump poses to American democracy. ”
Yes, well, don’t worry about the last edited part. It’s just the mainstream media at work. No one except Democratic aides and Rachel Maddow’s butler believes democracy will end in November. The bottom line is that Democrats still have a chance to run this campaign on something other than Guilty Orangemen and Two Minutes of Hate.
Peter Van Buren, The American Conservative March 18, 2024
