OR IS IT ONLY DEMOCRATS TRYING TO ELIMINATE A POTENT CANDIDATE
One cannot read a newspaper, or turn to the TV without hearing of another criminal or civil charge against just one specific and very well-known individual. It is a phenomenon of such unusual ferocity that one is unable to recall any similar situation in our history. Our nation’s past is rife with justified national efforts to bring to court major criminals and evil doers such as: Jesse James (1847-1882), John Dillinger (1903-1934), Al Capone (1899-1947) and even more recently Pablo Escobar (1949-1993). But none of these efforts to charge (or capture) these criminals ever attained the national level of unified collusion and fanaticism one observes in recent (unsuccessful) attempts to charge former President Donald Trump with some crime—anything will do.
What is the motivation? It seems unwarranted. The former president served for four years, and brought a period of relative peace abroad, no threats of “hot wars” or of fearful nuclear holocaust, no expensive ($70 billion dollar) outlays for a costly proxy war in Eastern Europe. At home we had the benefit of a secure border, low taxes, low inflation, inexpensive gasoline and heating fuels, low crime rate, as well as high employment, and in general, a period of relative peace and prosperity. We were better off then indeed.
But being a successful President does not protect one from politically motivated attacks and malfeasance. The many and varied charges and allegations follow:
1 The FBI conducted a ugly and fear-filled night raid at former President Trump’s Mar a Lago home in Florida to collect documents the national archivist claims belongs in Washing DC. The crux of the matter is an on going disagreement as to what presidential documents belong to the former president and which ones belong in the national archives. The raid of the President’s home and riffling through his personal and private papers was widely publicized . The FBI leaked information much of the data to the press which joyfully con noted lurid allegations indicative of impropriety or illegality.
2 In New York, a civil suit brought by NY, Democrat AG Letitia James alleges that the Trump Organization over-valued the appraisal of their real estate properties in that State, when applying for loans to area banks. The investigators allege that these subjective appraisals were examples of fraud.
3.Another investigation in NY revolves around the charge that the Trump family company paid organization executives a “compensation bundle” which included higher “fringe benefits” in the mix so as to avoid taxes on actual cash income.
4. In Washington DC the House of Representatives is investigating the Jan 6 riot at the capital . The Congressional Committee (“Jan 6 Committee) is loaded (7 to 2) with Democrats and two well-known GOP political opponents of the former president. The focus of the “committee” has been to attempt to support allegations that the former president, somehow had the evil thought of “supporting or encouraging the rioters.” The tenor of the this committee, its timing, its news releases, and its media hype give it all the appearances of a show trial or kangaroo court. Such courts—like the Jan 6 Committee— typically offer: no due process, no cross examination of witnesses, and are conducted for obvious propaganda purposes, and with a predetermined outcome of guilt. The Jan 6 Committee fits this definition precisely.
4. In Georgia, the former president is being investigated for a telephone call he made to the Georgia, Secretary of State, Brad Raffensberger. In the election-night call, Mr Trump is alleged to have urged the Secretary of State to “find 12,000 votes” to overcome an apparent lead by Joe Biden in that state. The alleged crime is an assumed intention to “interfere with and election”.
5. In Westchester County, NY local officials are investigating whether the Trump organization misled local officials on the value of a golf course. In this case, the Trump organization is alleged to have reduced the value of the property to incur lower local taxes.
6. Again in Washington DC, that city is suing Mr Trump’s inaugural committee claiming that after the 2016 election win, the committee had over-paid the candidate’s own family business for space used at the Trump Hotel during the January 2017 inaugural celebratory event.
7. Mr Trump is also defending himself against a charge of rape by a woman who claims Mr Trump (the period of time this occurred was well before he was a candidate) attacked her in the fitting room of a woman’s clothing store after a brief encounter. There were no witnesses.
What is going on here? Harassment? Or is Mr Trump simply a bad guy as the legacy press and some TV commentators would have you conclude?
In search of such answers I often go back to a comment made by the long-term former Prime Minister of Germany, Ms Angela Merkel. Ms Merkel recalled that as a young girl, interested in current events, and living in Communist East Germany, she had as her only “news” source the local propaganda tabloid (i.e. Neues Deutschland). Aware that this propaganda sheet was attempting to control her thinking rather than inform her, she explained how she learned to deduce the valid information by “reading between the lines” so as to learn of the real world beyond the Iron Curtain.
It is sad to report that here in the USA, after the Biden Administration’s rise to power, and the collaborative/collusive relationship it has with the news media, we find ourselves, as citizens, in a similar predicament. To understand what is really going on we must “read between the lines” to interpret the reality from the propaganda generated too often by the legacy press, and TV news programs. Thus like young Ms Merkel in a communist state decades ago we are forced to interpret what is reported but ignore the face value of the reporting. Sadly our news organizations like other organs of propaganda attempt to control their readers rather than inform them.
So why has this former servant of the state and effective president been hounded and investigated (can I say “crucified”) by almost every over-ambitions, over-eager State, or city Attorney General, author eager to sell copies of lurid stories (no need for truth) as well as the US Congress and the Democrat party?
The Democrats fear the US voter. Using their present power of political office they would deny a large percentage of US voters the choice of their preferred candidate. Democrats are manipulating the system prior to an election, so as to eliminate a candidate they can not defeat. That is not how our system should work
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