Trump NY trial; my take

My assumption about the New York Trump trial has been that in the big picture (macro) view, it doesn't matter.  To elaborate, if he is convicted, it is at best only going to make a minor difference with voters; some will switch their support away from Trump, and more or fewer will switch their vote towards Trump but most of it has already been baked in to voters' minds. As for the criminality, there will be an appeal process where it will ultimately get overturned. The prosecutors and judge must know that too, given their bold disregard for due process in the trial; this was always only about aiding the election chances of Let's Go Brandon.  Conversely if Trump is acquitted in this initial stage, there will be virtually no impact on the vote. Same if there is a hung jury.  There will be no retrial, before or after the election; it's pointless no matter who wins the election (with a bit of caveat on that).*

As I said, that has been my assumption.  But as the jury deliberations continue, despite my still held assumptions, I cannot help but get nervous about the outcome of this sham, kangaroo court, railroading of Donald Trump for political malfeasance.  Stories like this one do not help with my nervousness:

I realize there are a lot of other takes out there both towards acquittal/hung jury and guilty verdict. I've taken all of them with a grain of salt, since they are opinion driven takes. For some reason this one made me nervous.

*If Trump somehow loses the election, they may still want to convict him to keep any other outsider from trying to come in an disrupt the establishment. They may want to send a message in that vein.  But Trump will still be acquitted on appeal.

The entire trail is a sham

Witness tampering in the Trump trial in New York? Judge for yourself:

EXCLUSIVE:

🚨Democrat NY Congressman who helped prepare Michael Cohen for his anti -Trump testimony is a client of Judge Merchan’s daughter’s Democrat political consulting company @Authentic_HQ! 🚨

Today, New York Democrat Congressman Dan Goldman @RepDanGoldman went on @MSNBC… pic.twitter.com/LOP2c7Kexj

— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) May 14, 2024

Stormy Daniels helped Donald Trump (but also the establishment?)

The case against Donald Trump had three legs to begin with: leftist judge, leftist prosecutor and leftist jury. Those legs inevitably would be removed after the almost certain, needed appeal.   But Stormy Daniels has reduced the chances that there would be a decision against Trump to begin with:

This after one of the other cases against Trump was indefinitely postponed for prosecutorial malfeasance or misconduct.

But how does this all help the establishment? If Trump walks away from all of these cases unscathed, it could be seen as a victory for justice, blinding people to all of the injustice that preceded these positive outcomes.  We don't need to destroy the swamp, justice prevailed.  

They are probably hoping for that positional outcome among voters (or at least enough voters to ensure the establishment remains the establishment). They can maintain their grip on the levers of power and the beaurocracy if Trump wins. In fact that may now be the real goal behind this lawfare against Trump, given that they were swaying public opinion in the opposite direction to their original goals.

If that's the case, it become incumbent upon Trump when he wins the election, to not cave to the establishment and go easy on these governing institutional beaurocracies.  Instead, he will need to double down and pull a Javier Milei and gut the bloated, self-serving government departments, and change, in law, the rules around voting mechanisms to ensure there is no mass-scale cheating in elections. This will be his one chance to stop it and he is going to need a lot of support in the senate and congress to do so.

There is a true urgency to this, as Americans it is also incumbent upon the people to not let what has been happening slide just because Trump wins these cases and eventually because he wins the election.  This next presidential term will be the time to force real, effective change in government.

Kevin O'Leary shark tanks CNN host over the debacle Trump fraud trial

If there has been any fraud it has been in the New York legal system's sham of a trial. Via Jimmy Dore:

Oops! Did she just say that?

New York Attorney General Letitia James, Democrat, just said the judge ruled in her favor before the kangaroo court trail of president Donald Trump even began. WTF?

Clinton Russiagate is getting worse

It's starting to look that this Russiagate / Russia collusion scandal may burst apart all over Hillary Clinton.  A bad metaphorical image I know, but apt nonetheless.

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