I’ve lengthy criticized our present US justice system – on all ranges – as changing into way more about political justice than blind justice. The weird trial and conviction of former President Donald Trump final week on 34 felonies solely reinforces my considerations.
The New York District Lawyer, Soros-backed Alvin Bragg, has been infamous for downgrading felony prices towards others to misdemeanor prices. In line with a current article within the Each day Mail, Bragg had downgraded 60 % of felony instances to lesser prices, leading to violent criminals being launched on the streets and against the law wave throughout New York Metropolis.
However when it got here to Donald Trump, Bragg lurched within the different course, upgrading what usually would have been misdemeanor prices towards anybody else to 34 felony prices towards the previous president. How can this sudden “about-face” be defined apart from politics?
Jonathan Turley, who isn’t any fan of Donald Trump, has been overlaying the trial intently and has discovered greater than slightly disturbing the exuberant celebrations of Trump’s conviction among the many mainstream media and his political opponents. Just lately, he wrote:
“The conviction of former President Donald Trump in Manhattan of 34 felonies produced citywide celebrations [which] prolonged to the media, the place former U.S. Lawyer Harry Litman informed MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace that it was ‘majestic day’ and ‘a day to have a good time.’ After I left the courthouse after watching the decision are available in, I used to be floored by the celebrations outdoors by each the general public and among the media.”
No matter one’s view of Donald Trump, it’s a disturbing improvement in our society when justice is handled extra like a soccer sport the place you root to your “staff” slightly than a approach of preserving our freedom and liberty in an equal approach for all.
The true aim of the trial was political. None apart from George Soros’ son Alex let the cat out of the bag not too long ago when he suggested fellow Trump-haters learn how to make the most of the trial outcome. He posted on Twitter after the decision, “Democrats ought to confer with Trump as a convicted felon at each alternative. Repetition is the important thing to a profitable message and we wish folks to wrestle with the notion of hiring a convicted felon for crucial job within the nation!”
It was not about justice in any approach. It was all about having the ability to name the possible Republican presidential nominee a “felon” in order to undermine his help amongst voters. In different phrases, election interference.
The market has a approach of prevailing, nevertheless. The repeated makes an attempt at utilizing “lawfare” to take away Trump from the political scene have all backfired and truly have served to make the previous president much more standard amongst voters. Instantly after Trump’s conviction on the 34 prices he started sending out fundraising appeals primarily based on his “persecution” by the state of New York. As of this writing, he has, in line with press studies, raised over $200 million for his marketing campaign.
The politicization of justice just isn’t restricted to the Democratic Social gathering. The wind sown by political opponents of Donald Trump could properly turn out to be the whirlwind they reap when their very own political opponents are in positions of energy. When that’s the case, all of us lose.
