All across the internet, a vast number of Trump fans are angrily calling his soon to be unsealed indictment for paying hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels "trivial."
Silhouette of former President Donald Trump and his aides following a recent speech near Waco, Texas…
While his fans have every right to hold such an opinion about this first case, I know beyond all doubt that those same hard core fans will also call his potential indictments in far more serious cases “trivial,” too, such as:
1.Trump’s desperate telephone plea to Georgia Republicans to get the 2020 election results in favor of Joe Biden overturned in the Peach State;
2. Trump's dastardly role in the deadly Jan. 6th MAGA Riots, as he used his Twitter and Facebook accounts to call for his supporters to arrive en masse in Washington, D.C and descend upon the Capitol to “Stop the Steal” (which was a whole lie);
3. Trump's removal of classified documents from the Oval Office, including nuclear secrets, after his presidency was over.
What I'm basically stating this Palm Sunday morning is that, per usual, hard core Trump fans will always find excuses for his alleged criminal behavior, while having no qualms at all when middle class politicos get prosecuted for alleged crimes relating to their public offices. These ones also lose no sleep when poor people are accused of all sorts of crimes that upend their lives—but are willing to protect those “to the Manor, born,” like Little Lord Trump, from answering for their alleged crimes!
The problem that I have with this lack of accountability, and the childish and petty attacks on the legal system that have hailed forth from Trump fans ever since the looming indictment was announced last week, is that such reminds that the concept of “equal justice under the law” is illusory among the patrician elite in America—and their paycheck to paycheck living supporters—as the same believe that the filthy rich are not bound to play by the same rules that govern ordinary Americans each and every day.
Several Trump aides, speaking anonymously to the NY Times, have indicated that Trump was initially shocked and nervous after being indicted, but immediately began discussing how to turn the charges to his financial and political advantage…
Historically speaking, such is ironic when considering that British colonizers flocked to America to avoid the unequal serfdom rules that granted greater rights to the royals, the ecclesiastical elite, and wealthy landowners—only to replicate similar customs here in what would become the United States. These oft revered “Founding Fathers” developed these unwritten cultural disparities despite drafting a constitution that, in theory per its Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment that extended such rights to formerly enslaved Blacks, supposedly treats wealthy, middle class, and poor people alike when charged with crimes.
As I wrote last Friday, I cannot predict what the outcome of the People of New York vs. Donald J. Trump will be once the case is set for trial; as I've written before, in my own trial lawyer past, I won many cases that seemed extremely insurmountable at the outset—and I lost some that I was fairly confident that victory was a certainty from the outset. Such taught me to remain humble, an attribute that I have never heard mentioned in any sentence or paragraph about Mr. Trump.
And yet, as one who has taught civics on the middle school level, and American constitutional law at Florida A&M University, I submit that the best aspect of the American criminal justice system system is that Donald Trump, like every other accused citizen, will get every opportunity to defend himself before a jury of his peers; they may not be the rich manorial lord peers that Trump most surely would prefer, but he will have a diverse group of citizens who will not judge the morality of sleeping with Stormy Daniels, but will be instructed to weigh the legality, or lack thereof, of paying for Ms. Daniels's silence—while failing to report said hush payments on disclosure forms during the home stretch of the 2016 election.
Stay tuned…
I will celebrate when he's convicted.
The issue is consistency.
We prosecute Trump for misuse of campaign funds while others paid a simple fine for doing the same thing.
It's activism, theatre, partisanship, and selective outrage bundled into catnip for politicos. Every time they mention the profession of the related woman, i keep thinking of the hypocrisy on display.
This is a joke and guarantees the Republican nomination for Trump and very likely the presidency. Sorry sighted inconsistency and selective moral outage are not virtues. They are symptoms of a deeper malady borne from the belief that Trump is a singular, existential threat.
We are funding a proxy war to the tune of 100 billion, dont have health care, people sleep under bridges, and our children can't read... but Trump?