Indicting 76-year-old President Donald Trump for unknown crimes related to his business practices, including paying of his enemies, the U.S. press has gone wild with all the speculation, talking like it’s an unprecedented event. Well, if hounding someone for nearly two years during in 2016 campaign and another four for years of his presidency isn’t bad enough, the press has gone apoplectic with Trump’s indictment. Unlike other impeachable offenses, 49-year-old Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg has wrung Trump up charges that have nothing to do with his time in office. No other president in modern history came from the private sector, especially a New York City real estate tycoon. So, when it comes to Trump’s business dealings, including his private social relations, it has nothing to do with his work at the White House. Yet Trump has been compared to President Richard Nixon.
Nixon, as most people know, was forced out of office Aug. 8, 1974 for a botched burglary and cover-up of the Democrat National Committee headquarters during the 1968 presidential campaign. When it comes to other presidential impeachment, they were all related to activities in office, not, like Trump, in conducting business before he took office. Yet the U.S. press treats Trump like he embezzled money from the U.S. Treasury. When it comes to paying so-called “hush money” to Stormy Daniels AKA Stephanie Clifford, Trump denied having an affair with the former porn start. Much of Bragg’s case against Trump stems from testimony and evidence supplied by Trump’s 56-year-old former attorney Michael Cohen. Bragg relies on Cohen’s testimony as same way 78-year-old former Special Counsel Robert Mueller relied on former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s fake Steele dossier.
Talking about Trump’s indictment, the press focuses on the unprecedented nature of the charges because it’s never happened before. Yet what the intelligence and law enforcement community did to Trump during his 2016 campaign and presidency is also unprecedented. When did a former administration authorize an investigation of a major party nominee for completely bogus reasons? Instead of the press focused on the event itself, shouldn’t they focus on how the press has become a tool of the Democrat Party. Pointing fingers at Trump does nothing to recognize the insidious corruption of the First Amendment. When in U.S. history has the press advanced a political agenda of one political party, in this case the Democrat Party. When has a prior administration authorized the investigation of an opposing party nominee? Trump was accused of doing something unrelated to the presidency.
When you consider that all prior occupants of the White House were either politicians or from the military, should the rules apply differently for someone whose career came from the business sector? Trump has no past experience in politics, something appreciated by voters in 2016, willing to take a chance on an outsider. When it comes to the expected charges against Trump, they have nothing to do with presidency or, for that matter, anything current. Bragg has relied heavily on convicted felon Michael Cohen to make his case against Trump. How can any career prosecutor take the word of a convicted felon with an ax to grind, considering the way Cohen and Trump ended their relationship. Watching Trump’s personal attorney go after his former client with a vengeance makes your stomach turn. It’s almost as bad as your priest, minister or rabbi betraying you.
Bragg’s case against Trump for his organization’s arcane business practices isn’t going to impress jurors should it ever get that far. Any indication that Bragg coordinated his case with members the Jan. 6 House Select Committee or any partisan members of Congress would be an automatic deal-breaker no matter what the charges. Even if paying off Stormy Daniels or former Playboy Centerfold Susan McDougal. In order for Bragg to get conviction on one felony count for a hush money payout, Bragg would have to prove Trump did it to buy her silence to protect his 2016 campaign. If Trump says he paid he off because she was trying to wreck his marriage or hi reputation, that would undermine Bragg’s case. Why the Democrat-controlled press has already tired-and-convicted Trump is anyone’s guess. Trump has no backing in the Democrat-controlled U.S. press.
Jumping for joy over Trump’s indictment the Democrat-controlled press already trees and convict the former president. When it comes to Trump, there’s no presumption of innocence, only recrimination. “These are not things that Donald Trump ever thought in his entire life, nr I, for that matter, that he would ever be confronted with,” said Michael Cohen, Trump’s once long-term lawyer and so-called “personal fixer.” Cohen wants Trump convicted in the worst possible way, largely because he was convicted primarily of income tax evasion and illegally selling New York City taxi cab medallions. Cohen was disbarred and spend nearly three years in prison for his own crimes, completely unrelated to Trump. Paying off Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election was the least of Cohen’s crimes. Bragg knows there’s a difference between self-serving PR and prosecuting a criminal case.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma
