My VIP for this week is Donald J. Trump, former President of the United States and candidate in the 2024 presidential election. I chose Trump for my VIP because he announced on Saturday that he expects to be arrested on Tuesday (tomorrow). Manhattan’s district attorney may single-handedly propel Trump to a landslide victory. On the other hand, he may end his own career for allowing his hatred for Trump to override his better judgment.
The
basis for Trump’s arrest took place in 2016. X-rated actress Stormy Daniels
threatened to go public about an affair that she had with Trump. He denies any
such affair, but he did pay $130,000 to Daniels as hush money.
According
to Chris Enloe at The Blaze, Jonathan Turley, a professor at the George
Washington School of Law, called the case “pathetic” in a piece about the case.
Bragg is struggling to twist state laws to
effectively prosecute a federal case long ago rejected by the Justice
Department…. In 2018 (yes, that is how long this theory has been around), I
wrote how difficult such a federal case would be under existing election laws.
Now, six years later, the same theory may be shoehorned into a state claim.
After
quoting the above paragraph, Enloe proceeded to explain why he agreed with
Turley that the case is pathetic. He explained that there are several reasons
for Turley calling the case pathetic.
First, so-called “hush money” payments are
not necessarily illegal, and the federal government has a poor track record of
prosecuting similar cases.
Second, former Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance
Jr. dismissed the viability of the legal course that Bragg is now charting.
Third, and most important, “Bragg himself
previously expressed doubts about the case, effectively shutting it down soon
after he took office,” Turley wrote.
Turley
considers the case to be “patently political prosecution,” and he is not alone.
Former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy agrees.
“Bragg is engaged in bare-naked politics.
The case is not merely unworthy as a prosecution of Trump (which is why federal
prosecutors walked away from it years ago, as did Bragg before he was pressured
by progressive Democrats into reviving it); it is also a case that everyone
knows Bragg would never bring against another other than Trump,” McCarthy
wrote.
Donald
Trump was friends with all the Democrats until he announced his intention to
run for President of the United States in 2016. Since that time, Democrats and
progressives are united in their attempt to “get Trump” in any way possible.
First, there was the “Russia collusion case. Then there were the two attempts
to remove Trump from office. Then there was the FBI raid on Trump’s home. Now AG
Bragg is attempting to combine a state law with a federal law to put Trump in
jail.
All
the efforts of the Democrats and progressive beg the question: Why are they so afraid
for Trump to be President of the United States? What are they hiding from
Americans? All their efforts to keep Trump out of the Oval Office propel me to
support him.
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