The Trump Trial and the Fall of the Democrats
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Martin Luther King, Jr., was arrested 30 times in various cities across the South for a variety of “crimes” that all involved civil rights. When Blacks boycotted the bus system in Montgomery, Alabama, they arrested King and other leaders of the movement. A few days later, they bombed King’s house. King was arrested, convicted, and sentenced to four months of prison for the “crime” of sitting in an Atlanta restaurant requesting service. It took a Presidential intervention to get him out of the slammer.
Rosa Parks, the mild-mannered Black lady who refused to mover to the back of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama was also arrested in 1956. So were 100 others who supported her peaceful protest. When she first arrived in prison, she asked for a drink of water, but the guards refused to give it to her.
Ralph Abernathy was arrested in Birmingham, Alabama for the crime of demonstrating without a permit. He went to jail and wrote his now famous “Letter from the Birmingham Jail.”
Congressman John Lewis was arrested over 40 times between 1960 and 1966 during his activities on behalf of civil rights. He called this “good trouble.” His arrests are considered a badge of honor.
Moving offshore, Mahatma Gandhi, the international peace activist, was arrested and jailed many times. As a young lawyer he was residing in South Africa, Gandhi protested their apartheid laws. This got him his first prison term, sentenced to “hard labor.” After prison, he returned to India and in 1920 he was arrested and imprisoned there by the colonial power of Great Britain. Gandhi was sentenced to prison without benefit of a trial for protesting the salt monopoly held by Britain. He was arrested numerous times, his highest charge being sedition (treason).
In Europe, over 1000 women advocating for women’s right to vote found themselves incarcerated at various times. In the United States, suffragettes held a protest outside the White House and 32 of them were arrested and incarcerated. The women endured brutal beatings in prison, aimed at intimidating protests. There are published reports of these unfair arrests, incarcerations, and torture.
Sophie Scholl, a German college student in 1940s Germany was arrested in 1943 when she and her brothers left anti-Hitler flyers at the University of Munich. They didn’t even hand them out, they just dropped off bundles of leaflets here and there on campus. At one point, Sophie stood at the top of a stairwell and threw some leaflets down to the atrium, which was observed and reported. She was arrested and in Hitler’s court she was not permitted to offer any defense or even to testify. She, her brother, and another person were convicted and executed by guillotine.
Nelson Mandela protested against apartheid in South Africa. He was arrested and charged with numerous crimes ranging from treason at one extreme to not having proper paperwork and permission to leave South Africa. He was convicted of “sabotage” and drew a life sentence. Worldwide protests helped to get his sentence commuted. Today, his old prison cell on Robben Island is a historic monument. Although Mandela wound up spending 27 years of his life behind bars, he also won the Nobel Peace Prize for helping to end apartheid and became South Africa’s first Black president. He didn’t shun the appellation “convicted felon.”
Now not everyone who gets arrested is a saint, nor is every prisoner a hero, but let’s face it. Sometimes court convictions tell you more about the court system than the person on trial. Jesus Himself was falsely accused of sedition to Rome and tortured to death after two rigged trials. The Sanhedrin in Jerusalem condemned Him without evidence, then Pontius Pilate failed to take the steps to avert the Crucifixion, although Biblical texts suggest that Pilate so no crimes.
The Trump Trial
Branding Trump as a “convicted felon” is the current Democrat playbook, with the idea that “convicted felon” is a bad term. In a nation run by despots and traitors, “convicted felon” is actually more like a term of heroism. Ask John Lewis if being a convicted felon is a bad thing.
There is a lot wrong with Juan Merchan’s court and how the trial was conducted. I think Alan Dershowitz is the best commentator on this because he is a former law professor and celebrity attorney (meaning attorney to celebrities, he’s not much of a glitterati person himself). He attended one day of the Trump kangaroo court in Manhattan and said he’d never see so many reverisble errors in one court case in his whole life—and he was only there for a few hours. Merchan is not stupid and I suspect the reversible errors do not matter because it’s not about whether the conviction will stand. It won’t. You can also watch his regular podcast at Dershow on Rumble.
The main objectives of the Trump Manhattan case were to tie Trump up in court and keep him off the campaign trail (Trump was required to be present for the whole trial although he never testified—even when the jury was out, Trump had to sit in court like he was in detention). It tied up a lot of Trump’s time and money; sort of what Biden is trying to do to Russia by arming Ukraine. He’s not out to win, he just wants Russia to waste its resources. And the case had to convict Trump so the Democrats could run around screaming he was a “convicted felon.” I suspect they also want a photo of Trump in an orange jumpsuit.
The problem is that it backfired. Now for all of those folks flying upside down flags, yes, the nation is in distress. This is horrible. But this is not the first person, much less the first American, to be prosecuted and punished by a rigged and evil court system.
So what has happened since Trump was convicted by a corrupt court?
Alan Dershowitz, a lifelong Democrat who up until a few days ago insisted he was going to vote for Biden has now said, “I’m not so sure.” I don’t think he’s the only one.
Even left-wing media outlets are challenging the Merchan court case in a strange case of prosecutorial regret.
We know that Juan Merchan’s daughter, Loren Merchan, raised more than $90M for her political consulting service during the Trump trial. The longer the trial went on, the more bucks came rolling into Loren’s company, Authentic Campaigns. Adam Schiff donated millions. Not good optics. Expect an investigation.
David Sacks, a Silicon Valley billionaire, has pledged support to Trump saying the only issue in this election is whether America continues to be a banana republic. Silicon Valley used to be 100% Democrat.
Chamath Palihapitiya, another billionaire, is hosting a San Francisco fundraiser for Trump with individuals being asked to plunk down $300,000 a plate. Another newcomer on the Trump train.
Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman is supposed to be announcing how much he’s giving to Trump this week. Again, these are guys that the Democrats used to keep in their back pocket.
Steve Schwarzman, a billionaire Wall Street guy, has said he’s supporting Trump, but I can’t find the dollar amount. He used to be a Biden guy.
Miriam Adelson, a casino mogul, is expected to donate many millions to Trump this week—rumor has it that it will be in the neighborhood of $90M through the political action committee (PAC) known as Preserve America. (Unlike an individual, a PAC can donate unlimited amounts to a candidate.)
Trump’s website crashed after his conviction, logging $53M in small donations in the first 24 hours. Yesterday, that amount was announced as $141M. I think it has continued to climb. These donations are mainly small donations, you know, folks who give $10 or $20. People who give to Biden tend to be rich people and movie stars. They give big amounts. Trump has a huge camp of small donors. Here is why that is great news. The same kind of person who gives $20 to a political campaign is the same kind of person who votes. Lots of small donations means lots of votes. So let Bill Gates drown Biden in money, at the end of the day, Gates can only vote once. (Well, if we ever get back to honest elections…)
Have you noticed that the Democrat crowing and cackling over Trump is rather muted? Where is AOC dancing in the street or Rashida Tlaib waving her great big Palestinian flag because Trump was convicted? Where are the flailing arms of Jasmine Crockett, “axing” us to see the righteousness of the Trump conviction? Why isn’t Nancy Pelosi tearing up something? Why are just a few old crows like Chuck Schumer and Mad Maxine Waters spewing Trump hatred? The answer is simple. They know this is not the winning strategy they thought it was. When Martin Luther King was arrested for sitting at a lunch counter and asking to be served, the Democrats who arrested and imprisoned him did not boast about it, either. They knew that King was the hero. They knew that cheering about arresting a nonviolent man asking for something most Americans considered reasonable behavior was no cause for jubilation. The stink of those arrests has not washed off the South ever since—we know today that those civil rights leaders and protestors were righteous and the courts were wrong. People in the South live with that dishonored history. What’s happening now with the Trump conviction is the same deal—it’s just happening a whole lot faster.
A plethora of moronic polls are coming out now, saying that Biden is up many points over Trump since the verdict. Polls are saying that Biden is viewed as a national hero and Republicans are generally glad that Trump is finally going to jail. Those are sad, sad lies. The Democrats are trying to cackle less and provide more data. The problem is their evidence and data are fictional.
Ironic, isn’t it, that the same Democrat party that persecuted the civil rights leaders in the 1960s is still weaponizing the courts? They’re still on the wrong side of history.
Nobody on earth can explain what the Trump crime is, because there was no crime. There was no victim. There was nothing there other than a bookkeeping error on which Bragg used origami to ramp it up into a felony. And we all know Hillary made the same bookkeeping error with the Steele Dossier and was asked to make the correction and pay a fine. Hillary pays a fine, Trump goes to jail. You can’t package that up in any way that doesn’t stink, even to Democrats.
I find it absolutely appalling that all of the people who are railroading Trump in this banana republic system are people of color. Bragg is Black, Letitia James is Black. Fani Willis is Black. You would think that of all people, Blacks with a sense of their own history would understand why weaponizing courts to pin bogus charges on innocent people is not just morally wrong, it’s dangerous to the nation. How can a Black man like Alvin Bragg know how history treated Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr., and then gleefully unleash the very same tactics on another man, even a former President? How can Letitia James see what happened to Nelson Mandela and then campaign on a platform to “Get Trump” with no specified charges? Fani Willis is the daughter of a prominent Black Panthers founder; doesn’t she know that making up fake charges to persecute an innocent man is not a good thing for the nation? Is she so oblivious to what happened to Black people just 60 years ago?
Democrats are whining a bit on social media that if Trump gets elected again, he will seek revenge. That is sort of comical. Why wouldn’t he want revenge? It’s like teasing and harming a dog who is chained up and then being surprised when the dog gets off the chain and bites you. Donald Trump is a lot of things, but a meek and gentle soul he isn’t. I don’t think he will seek revenge—he’s too practical and too focused on business and the economy. But he will try to seek justice and to a Democrat, seeking justice is the greatest crime there is.
Finally, the last thing that this trial has shown is that certain clusters of Americans, particularly the uber-rich sophisticated types who live in Manhattan and pay $10k a month rent are actually stupid, morally bankrupt, and possibly demonically possessed. Back in the 1960s, Alabamans persecuted innocent civil rights protestors and called themselves civilized. Today, it’s Manhattanites who are super proud of taking his nation apart, making it into a banana republic, and destroying our rule of law. In other words, the white supremacists of the 1960s South are today the anti-Trump elitists of Manhattan.
The Dog Caught the Car
Now that the Democrats have managed another Jim Crow maneuver and unjustly indicted, tried, and convicted not just an innocent man but a political opponent of theirs, what are they going to do?
Sure, they can lock him up and throw away the key, but the case will likely be overturned. And there is nothing to prevent the country from electing an incarcerated individual. In fact, a pending and unrelated Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity may scuttle the whole case. Even if the immunity decision isn’t announced in a timely way, Trump may seek emergency remedy from the Supreme Court. There are still many escape routes open to Trump, but none to Democrats, who have to live with this legacy. No matter what they do, this is Jim Crow 2.0. The Democrats may bandy about the term “convicted felon” (which is a badge of honor sometimes), but we must use other terms when talking about them: “banana republic” and “weaponized Department of Justice” and “corrupt legal system.”
The important thing for Americans to do is to make the Democrats own this. Make them wear it. Make them live with this like a face tattoo—not as a great triumph in the stupid game of “Get Trump,” but as a willingness to destroy this nation in pursuit of their own selfish gain, corruption, and power.
The Democrats can’t survive with this kind of record. The Dixiecrats who boasted about incarcertating Martin Luther King are no more. The thug prison guards who beat up the suffragettes did not stop women from getting the vote. The British government who convicted Gandhi of treason no longer rule India. Apartheid ended in South Africa. The Nazis who executed three college students for distributing pamphlets are gone as well; many of them were hanged at Nuremberg.
This is what happens to tyrants. The Democrat Party cannot survive this. Granted, they may survive it for a while longer—in fact, longer than I would like—but they cannot stand on such a legacy. Like the dog who chased a car—they caught it and now they don’t know what to do with it.
To paraphrase the old saying, “When somebody shows you who they are, believe them.” The Democrats are on the side of the Nazis, the imperialists, and the Jim Crow white supremacists … the people who weaponize the courts to pursue corrupt political objectives that cannot be defended by decent people.
Well done. I was one of the donatees who helped crash the site with my $20.24 donation. Just as many others. I think they realize that they overplayed their hand. I do hope the Supreme Court intervenes because it is just so wholly unjust and unconstitutional. The only play the Dems have is to pardon Trump (Biden or Hochel??) but I think their stupidity and arrogance won’t let them.
To be continued….