In the Wake of the Raid on Mar-a-Lago, How Are We to Judge Legal Action Against Trump? With Skepticism!

Former President Donald Trump speaks during a rally to boost Ohio Republican candidates ahead of their May 3 primary election at the county fairgrounds in Delaware, Ohio, April 23, 2022. (Gaelen Morse/Reuters)

Based on what I’ve seen of Trump’s public performances, I would not seek his company.  Loud, overbearing braggarts are not my cup of tea.  That aside, a vendetta, clearly partisan and dripping in class condescension, has accompanied him since the day he rode down the escalator at Trump Tower in June of 2015.  If nothing else, the presence of Trump on the stage has exposed a persistent campaign to get Trump and almost any Republican of consequence by the powers-that-be.  Now, the raid.  How should we view any subsequent prosecution of him?

A writer at National Review Online and lawyer, Dan McLaughlin, lays out a useful standard:

“Find a room full of Americans without college degrees, one in which partisan Democrats are scarce. In three minutes or less, lay out your best evidence and explain why what Trump has done is clearly and obviously against the law — obvious not just to lawyers, but to everyone.  If the room is convinced, then and only then will you know that the case demands you cross the Rubicon.”

Given all that has been done to him by partisan, bureaucratic, and cultural elite interests in the Manhattan-Beltway union, anything less than an obvious and unambiguous case would be seen by at least half the country as a coup. And that includes the current civil suit pursued by the den of Democrat legal militia in New York under the suzerainty of the state’s Democrat AG, Letitia James. At work is more than an insidious institutional Democrat favoritism but a trampling of the equal application of the laws. Nothing galls an observant public more than selective prosecution for political gain.

Batten down the hatches and get prepared for a hurricane.

Political Cartoons by Michael Ramirez

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