By Don Frost
Donald Trump has done many deplorable things. He has said many outrageous things. He has committed many despicable acts. His presidency was a disaster. But does the Democratic Party and its allies in the press never weary of tying the country in knots over their pathological hatred of him? Has the party and the press no shame, no sense of fair play, no ethics?
There was the manufactured scandal over Trump’s so-called collusion with Russia in the 2016 election in which he was portrayed, if not an active Russian agent, at least a pawn, a stooge, of Russian boss Vladimir Putin. Almost daily we were treated to the most outrageous, sometimes salacious, rumors and innuendo. After millions of dollars in a taxpayer-funded investigation all were shown to be a smear bought and paid for by the Hillary Clinton campaign.
Failing to convict Trump in that mess the party tried again with the House committee “investigating” the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. The quote marks are necessary because anyone with two brain cells to rub together knew the committee would conclude that the riot was all Trump’s fault.
But when the hearings were over and as its six “impartial” Trump-loathing committee members crept back to their chambers on Capitol Hill they had one more headline-grabbing task to perform. They urged Atty. Gen. Merrick Garland to file criminal charges against Trump. It has been 3½ months since they disbanded and Democrat Garland still hasn’t filed any such charges. He’s smart enough to know Trump would have been found innocent, contradicting the Jan. 6 committee’s findings and exposing it for what it was: A political circus.
Had Garland charged Trump, his attorneys would only have needed to subpoena the transcripts from criminal trials of rioters taking place down the street from the Jan. 6 committee meetings. There rioters – QAnon, Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, and similar unaligned lightweights – were found guilty of planning and executing the riot. Even knowing this the committee still insisted Trump was to blame.
Now we have the New York indictments. If there was ever any doubt that these are yet another political circus (there wasn’t) it can be dispelled by reading just one – pick any one – of the 34 indictments lodged against him, to wit:
“The grand jury of the County of New York, by this indictment, accuses the defendant of the crime of falsifying business records in the first degree, in violation of Penal Law s175.10, committed as follows:
“The defendant in the County of New York and elsewhere on or about Feb. 14, 2017, with intent to defraud and intent to commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission thereof, made and caused a false entry in the business records of an enterprise, to wit, an invoice from Michael Cohen dated Feb. 14, 2017, marked as a record of the Donald J. Trump revocable trust and kept and maintained by the Trump Organization.”
There are 33 other indictments – aka charges – brought against Trump by the ambitious Democratic district attorney, Alvin Bragg. All 34 say basically the same thing, creating the impression that Trump must have done something truly awful to be charged with so many different crimes. In politics impressions are more important than facts.
Bragg and the Democratic Party know that no one’s going to read all 34 indictments. There may be some hair-splitting, legalese mumbo-jumbo that required 33 additional charges, but in common sense understanding that’s B.S. The extra 33 charges were tossed in simply to swell the total to a point calculated to shock and to force the trial to drag on and on as each indictment is dealt with one by one.
In “liberal” news report shorthand the issue will always be described only as “34 felony/criminal counts.” And count on that media to use those words “felony” and “criminal” frequently. It sounds ever-so much more sinister than what it actually is. And what is that?
Nothing more than how Trump got hush-money payments to people who may have had embarrassing information about his personal life. The “victim” in Trump’s crime? His own company.
The strategy is identical to the House committee “investigation” of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Democrats and their allies in the media kept that fraudulent exercise festering in the news right up to the 2022 midterm elections. The end goal of these indictments is the 2024 presidential election when the party will again force all GOP candidates to run with the Trump albatross dangling around their necks.
Let us pause a moment in sympathy for the hapless taxpayers of New York County. The whole country will suffer through these indictments, key to the party’s 2024 campaign. But the citizens of New York will be stuck with the bill.
When all is said and done if Trump is found guilty of violating Penal Law s175.10 history will record this hush money was proven to be not a business expense, but a personal expense, filed in the wrong column. In other words, Trump would be found guilty of dishonest bookkeeping. Thus, Democrats and pundits will trumpet, Bragg saved the republic and proved that “no one is above the law.”
And do remember the name, Alvin Bragg. Before these indictments who, outside of New York City, ever even heard of the guy? Several years from now – when the 34 indictments issue has been laid to rest – look for his party to quietly reward him. An ambassadorship? A federal judge’s post? A party-financed nomination to a “safe” seat in the House? In the Senate? Whatever, these indictments put Bragg’s star in ascendance.
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