Trump lost. Also the United States.
Not that you would know it from most of yesterday’s news coverage, so-called reporters and journalists practically levitating over 34 guilty verdicts in a trial that was nothing more than a political coup.
You can dislike Donald Trump, as I and many others do, and still feel outraged.
This case, which the feds refused to prosecute, was falsely and weakly based on “election interference.”
Do you want to talk about election interference? How about keeping the Republican presidential candidate off the campaign trail for almost two months? Or schedule his sentencing just four days before the Republican convention?
To all the progressives gloating and applauding: well, live it up now, because you probably just gave Trump another four years.
To all the progressives gloating and applauding: well, live it up now, because you’ve probably just given Trump another four years.
America is diminished by this. We are getting smaller and meaner with no change in sight.
This is a loss that goes beyond legality. It is difficult to be proud of a nation that not only respects this but revels in it.
No wonder Trump’s website crashed yesterday. Workers, struggling in this economy that Biden insists is a huge success, are donating indignantly. Trump’s campaign raised a mind-boggling $34.8 million just hours after the verdict.
His polls rose six points according to a snap poll by DailyMail.com.
How does a pyrrhic victory sound to you?
These are the people who flocked to Trump in the Bronx in their thousands last week and who now see in him what they know only too well: the profiling and attacks of a corrupt criminal justice system.
Now Donald Trump is the unlikely hero of the oppressed, while Joe Biden begs and intimidates the black community to get their vote.
The part of the electorate that would otherwise have been left out: who wants to get out of bed to choose between two old, flawed candidates that no one really wants? – will analyze this persecution of Trump, the weaponization of our judicial system, and will cast a no vote for Trump but against what they have done to him.
This is what Trump said after the verdict, no longer a boastful braggart but dejected, defeated, frustrated… and calm.
This was a new Trump, one we hadn’t seen before: Composite. Tonally accurate. Finding the moment.
“This was a disgrace,” he said. ‘This was a trial rigged by a conflicted judge who was corrupt… The true verdict will be on November 5, by the people.’
Truer words.
No wonder Trump’s website crashed yesterday. Workers, struggling in this economy that Biden insists is a huge success, are donating indignantly. Trump’s campaign raised an eye-popping $34.8 million within six hours of the verdict.
None of the jurors were apparently able to look Trump in the face as the “guilty” verdicts were read, instead looking away or at the ground. They knew what they had done.
None of the jurors were apparently able to look Trump in the face as the “guilty” verdicts were read, instead looking away or at the ground.
They knew what they had done.
But these jurors, many of them well-educated, simply couldn’t bear to return to their families, jobs, and polite society in deep blue New York City without convicting Donald J. Trump.
“Everyone knows what happened here,” Trump said. ‘We didn’t do anything wrong. I am a very innocent man. And it’s OK. I am fighting for our country, I am fighting for our Constitution… We will continue to fight. We will fight until the end and we will win.’
But the mainstream media was excited and ready to act, presenting this verdict as a fait accompli, the end of Trump, as if it were not going to be overturned on appeal, as if his conviction were not going to be overturned.
The entire trial was a farce, a sideshow and completely unsuitable for the world’s last great superpower.
The charges were brought by Alvin Bragg, an irresponsible district attorney responsible for the soft-on-crime policies that are destroying this once-great metropolis.
A twice-convicted criminal set fire to a fellow Tube rider last week – his second attack this year, the first chasing three men with a lit object at a Chelsea tube station.
However, this guy was roaming the streets instead of behind bars.
It turns out that Prosecutor Bragg can get a conviction when he really sets his mind to it.
And here was the liberal media celebrating him as a hero!
The sanctimonious Lawrence O’Donnell, on MSNBC, compared this lazy district attorney to David versus Goliath, a humble man who grew up on Harlem’s ‘Strivers’ Row’.
Bragg took his victory lap with a presser, Biden officials smiling in the background, outrageously claiming that this verdict was the result of “following the facts and the law, and doing so without fear or favor.”
Please! This whole trial was brought with ‘favor’: to Biden and the Democrats, against Trump and MAGA.
Bragg took his victory lap with a presser, Biden officials smiling in the background, outrageously claiming that this verdict was the result of “following the facts and the law, and doing so without fear or favor.” Please!
Aren’t you politically motivated?
Explain that Biden sent one of his own communications guys to the courthouse with Robert De Niro on Wednesday, the actor injected himself into the crowd wearing face paint and flashing her boobs with a speech no one asked for, calling Trump a “loser “and a ‘clown’.
The lack of self-awareness is truly astonishing.
After the verdict, The New Yorker magazine immediately revealed its next cover, Trump with his little hands in handcuffs.
Rachel Maddow had her all-star panel ready, all brimming with euphoria and self-satisfaction, congratulating each other on providing completely objective coverage before welcoming the prosecution’s star witness, Michael Cohen.
For the theater of the absurd, this was unbeatable. Maddow treated this cheap suit, with his inelegant voice and crude thought processes, as if he were a superior mind, a potentate: her ‘Shakespearean saga,’ he told us.
This is the same woman who spent an hour of air time ripping off her clothes and trying to calm down, after the Mueller Report found no evidence of “Russian interference” in the 2016 election.
Cohen is a convicted felon, a self-confessed liar and thief who stole $30,000 from Trump while working for him, and whose bitterness at not following Trump to the White House has been his animating force ever since.
But of course: let’s treat it like the Rosetta Stone.
The same goes for Stormy Daniels, the prosecution’s second most important witness, whose story conveniently changed on the stand.
She was no longer the spitty porn star she was. No, Stormy was now something of a victim who “passed out” during what she called her lackluster and unprotected sex with Trump, supplementing her tale of woe with unnecessarily salacious details like the alleged involvement of “spanking “.
Christmas morning for much of the media, which is otherwise clutching its proverbial pearls at the notion of suppressed stories.
Let’s talk about suppressed stories. Ashely Biden, in a legal filing weeks ago, admits that her diary is real: a diary containing the entries “Was I sexually assaulted?” I think so’, as well as ‘Showers with my dad (probably not appropriate)’.
Aside from this post, there has been a complete media blackout on Ashley’s dairy.
‘Without fear or favor’? It’s all that selfish crap.
Stormy Daniels’ story conveniently changed on the stand. She was no longer the spitty porn star that she was. No, Stormy was now something of a victim who “passed out” during what she called her lackluster, unprotected sex with Trump.
We’re told the Hunter Biden trial is also a political hatchet job.
And Joe’s family taking millions from China and other countries, what makes Biden think that a President Trump won’t turn around and use his Justice Department as a weapon against him?
A dangerous precedent has been set. If Biden were truly presidential, he would have insisted that his Justice Department drop the case.
Instead, he took to Twitter immediately after the verdict and began begging.
“I hate to ask…” he began. Sorry, when has a Biden ever hated asking for money?
Biden is deeply mistaken if he believes that Trump’s conviction helps him win.
A devastating story in Politico this week reports that Democrats are “all over the place” over Biden’s chances.
“Donors ask me every hour what I think,” said one Democratic aide, adding that it’s “much easier to show them (the data), so while they’re reading it, I can pour them a drink.”
Prepare to drown those sorrows, Democrats.
When the first presidential debate takes place on June 27, the first question for Donald Trump will surely be: ‘As a now-convicted felon, how can you possibly serve as president of the United States?’
Liberal America still doesn’t get it. They have learned nothing from 2016. This verdict, and much of the obvious glee and biased media coverage, just got Trump re-elected.
And they will say they never saw it coming.