The Weaponization of Government for the Political Persecution of Donald Trump
April 4, 2023 8:13pm
Donald Trump was arrested today and formally charged with 34 felonies. All counts allege falsification of business records. Under normal circumstances, the falsification of business records would be misdemeanors. But Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is pursuing the alleged offenses as felonies for purely partisan political purposes.
Shortly after he took his oath of office, Bragg stated he would not prosecute prostitution, resisting arrest, trespassing, and most other misdemeanors. Is it any surprise that major felony offenses (murder, rape, robbery, assault, burglary, and grand larceny) in Manhattan are up a whopping 26 percent? But he thinks it's important to pursue alleged seven year old misdemeanors as felonies???
Bragg hates Donald Trump and promised during his campaign that, if elected, he would arrest the former President and charge him with felonies. That alone should be grounds to dismiss all charges and remove Bragg from office for prosecutorial misconduct. But since New York is run by radical Leftists and corrupt judges, the chance of that happening is zero.
Bragg's grand jury had one defendant in mind; Donald Trump. Its creation was just as dishonest and just as biased as Pelosi's January 6th Committee. The only difference is that Pelosi's committee didn't have the authority to effectuate an arrest.
Lavrentiy Beria, the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Joseph Stalin's secret police in the Soviet Union) once said, "Show me the man, and I'll show you the crime.” It is typical under Communist tyranny to abuse the criminal code to eliminate political rivals. Today, it is the Democrat Party that has stooped to using those tactics. And it is disgusting.
With a fair justice system, when a crime has been committed, authorities investigate to discover who committed it. But when it comes to Trump, Democrat authorities identified their political target and then searched for his crime. While the underlying crime is a stretch of credulity in and of itself, its upgrade from misdemeanors to Class E felonies is outrageous and unlawful. Bragg charged Trump with felonies based upon the theory that Trump's conduct was intended to conceal another crime - that crime being a violation of federal campaign laws.
Well, first of all, violations of federal campaign laws are not state crimes and cannot be prosecuted in state courts. Secondly, because Trump has not been convicted of any federal crimes, the allegations that he committed federal crimes should not be admissible in any state court action. So elevating misdemeanors to felonies based on allegations that cannot be proven one way or another should be grounds for dismissal of all charges.
During his 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump supposedly paid hush money to porn actress Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal. Democrats say they were illegal campaign contributions because they were intended to help Trump's campaign. But all Trump would have to say is that he paid the money not to prevent harm to his campaign but to prevent harm to his marriage or to his reputation as the leader of the Trump Organization. And how would anyone prove otherwise???
Even beyond that obvious defense, Bragg has bent over backwards to misinterpret the New York laws he's charged Trump with violating. Because I know the fake news won't report it, I took the time to look up the New York Penal Code myself. And what to my wondering eyes did appear? The requirement that a falsified business record be done with “intent to defraud." You can read it yourself at www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/PEN/175.10
So who does Bragg allege Trump was defrauding? Stormy? No. Himself? No. His privately-held company? No. The New York taxing authorities? Still no. The payments to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal would be deductible as legitimate business expenses regardless of whether they were paid to silence them, or if they were paid to develop a comprehensive business plan to expand Trump's enterprises. Further, since neither woman was a W-2 employee of the Trump Organization, FICA taxes wouldn't even be withheld. And even if they did have to be withheld but weren't (which is absolutely not the case), that would be a federal issue not a state issue. Bragg has no jurisdiction over federal matters whatsoever. Yet he is building his entire case upon it.
If it wasn't for double standards, Democrats would have no standards at all. Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump's opponent in the 2016 election, committed actual, provable felonies related to the handling of classified documents, the use of a private e-mail server to conduct official government business, and the falsification of records to conceal her role in the genesis of the phony Russian Collusion hoax that crippled Trump's presidency. The effects of those lies linger today. Even after being exposed as Democrat lies, many Americans still believe Trump was Putin's puppet. And don't forget that the DNC-financed Steele dossier was used as the basis for obtaining fraudulent FISA warrants against innocent American citizens.
But did Hillary get prosecuted for her crimes? No, of course not. The "D" in parenthesis after a politician's name stands for "Do Not Prosecute." But she was required by the Federal Election Commission to pay an $8000 civil fine for her crime of falsifying records. And the Democratic National Committee paid a $105,000 fine. Should the Justice Department have prosecuted her? Arguably, yes. But Trump's Attorney General Bill Barr wrote in his memoir that Trump told him he did not want her to be prosecuted because it would make the United States look like a banana republic.
During campaign rallies, Trump supporters would often chant, "Lock her up! Lock her up!" In response, the Democrats and their allies in the propaganda press went apoplectic claiming that Trump was a wannabe dictator who would imprison his political rivals. But now that it is a fellow DemonRat going through the process of actually trying to imprison a political rival, the Left applauds.
A conviction for the Class E felony of falsifying business records can result in a prison term of up to four years. But the goal of the disgusting DemonRats is not to see Trump imprisoned - although most Democrats would be delighted if that were to happen. The DemonRats' goal is to destroy Trump politically, so he cannot win the 2024 election. That is a tactic used in banana republics. It is not a tactic used in a constitutional republic that is governed by the rule of law. But Democrats are not interested in the rule of law. They are only interested in ruling. And there is nothing they wouldn't do to put themselves in a position to rule.
It should be noted that while Bragg is stretching the laws beyond their breaking point to prosecute Trump's potentially misdemeanor actions as felonies, his office has prosecuted 52% of real felonies as reduced-charged misdemeanors. The Democrat's weaponization of governmental power to harm their political opponents is disgraceful.
Whether or not Donald Trump will be convicted or not depends largely on where the trial is held. I have no confidence Trump would get a fair trial with a Manhattan jury. So it's a coin toss. As to the effect this travesty of justice will have on his presidential ambitions, I see it harming him. Yes, the Trump loyalists support him now more than ever. But voters in the mushy middle are turned off by it. And it is that mushy middle that determines the results in a general election. So I predict today's arraignment will help Trump in the primary. But it will hurt him in the general election.
I do not want Donald Trump back in The White House. But I also don't want the Democrats to succeed in the political assassination of their enemies. The persecution (not prosecution) of Donald Trump is disgusting. But such is the state of the Democrats' Amerika.