After Trump’s Conviction
Watching various talking heads, Senators and Representatives, and selected interviewed common citizens, say things like: “No law was broken;” “This is the result of a weaponized Justice Department;” “This was purely political;” “He didn’t even know what he was charged with;” is truly remarkable.
If we’re honest, and attempt to be objective, we can find common ground and reasonable conclusions. One item at a time:
New York, and Oregon, (and I’d venture to guess all the other states) do have laws requiring the accurate recording and reporting of basic bookkeeping/accounting. Doing so falsely is illegal; it is a broken law.
When a law is broken, those in law enforcement across the country regularly ask: What was the motive for an illegal action? This is not an exceptional question, and it often-enough leads to revealing further law-breaking.
A Grand Jury of regular citizens considered the evidence and concluded that this case merited going to trial. The Justice Department had nothing to do with this. Further, at trial, a jury concluded — based on the clear documents with signatures and all, corroborated by multiple witness testimonies which stood up under cross examination — that Trump was guilty of trying to hide just one of his serial wife-cheating affairs by means of buying the woman’s silence In Order To limit the damage to his already pussy-grabbing reputation in the run-up to the 2016 election. Further, despite him regularly talking at impromptu press conferences, Trump passed on his opportunity and right to testify in his own defense under oath in court. How does he, how do any of these people complaining about a “rigged process”, complain when you pass on what a truly innocent person could most probably make into the central part of demonstrating their innocence?
Do these talking heads, politicians, and still-Trump-supporting regular citizens actually manage to avoid simply asking themselves how loudly they would be protesting if a leading politician on the left had done the same things?! Put any number of specific individuals into this hypothetical, and we can all imagine the decibel-level of their outcries; they would scream if it wasn’t brought to trial, and/or if he wasn’t convicted.
About the still-coming trials, ask this same question if a leader on the left had: tried to get specific states to change their election results; had encouraged a direct overthrow of the last steps in the peaceful transfer of power, even if it included violent means; had continued to maintain that the election was stolen, even after literally dozens of investigations and court cases had, by transparent processes, concluded that the election was not corrupt or stolen, and was in fact fair and secure; had taken and then carelessly kept Top Secret national security documents; had tried to claim that they can’t be held accountable for anything they did while in office. Any of this by a leader from the left would have been met by screaming condemnation from people on the right… people who right now are amazingly silent, and even outspokenly supportive(!), about Trump having done all of this.
I borrow here from Joseph N. Welch, who helped bring the McCarthy hearings to an end by asking: “At long last, have you left no sense of decency?” Why do you, friends or strangers to me, bother being so transparently hypocritical? You don’t have to permanently lack decency… or a sense of shame. Liz Cheney, John Bolton, Mark Esper, Mike Pense, Mark Milley, John Kelly, and many, many, more top Republican insiders, reached a point of realizing they must change their minds, their position on Trump and this election. Please, who out here among the us regular viewers-from-a-distance know better than these insiders?
One final point: Trump has on numerous occasions expressed his disrespect for Generals, for top scientists, for doctors, And for members of our armed services who paid the ultimate price in defending our freedoms, our democratic republic, our way of life, and our very lives. What can we reasonably conclude about his respect, or lack thereof, for the “ordinary” man or woman? Come on; be real. Why do you give your loyalty, support, and even money, to a person who has spat in the faces of dead soldiers, and surely has no more respect for you. The list of leading republican insiders given above quit making excuses for their loyalty; they changed, and put the good of the country over any silly sense of trying to maintain some tribal pride. You have that option too.
