And Trump continues his historical function of revealing to the American people how utterly rotten most of the institutions they respected are. I have said that many of the critics of Orange Man Bad would gladly burn down the Republic in order to get him. The New York verdict has turned this statement into prophesy. No institutions can save us if the people running them are corrupt power seekers who will stop at nothing to retain power, and that is the pit into which the USA has fallen. British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey made this famous observation at the beginning of World War I: ‘The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our lifetimes.” I deeply fear that a similar comment could now be made about this country.
Thought for the Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
The hive mind of the Left knows how to conquer, but not govern. Let’s hope It’s destroyed Itself in the minds of the American People.
If every evil thing should descend upon NYC, I wouldn’t lift a finger to stop it.
In fact, it would likely bring a smile to my face.
Who is implicated in this is as follows: (1) the clerk’s office in Manhattan. We have every reason to believe that the case assignments in the Trump cases have not been random (three have gone to Merchan, out of 50-odd superior court judges in Manhattan). (2) the commissioner of jurors in Manhattan; we also have reason to believe that the juror list was screened beforehand; in a big city jurisdiction, you should expect 1% of those on the voter roll to be members of the bar (of whom about 1/3 are inactive) and you had two lawyers on that jury (weirdly not excused). (3) the registered voters of Manhattan, among whom not one person could be found to throw sand in the works. (4) the Manhattan bar, among them the clerk of the courts, the judges, the DA, the minions of the DA, and those lawyers on the jury.
Note, for about 1/2 the population of the United States, the reaction to this verdict will be celebration or cud-chewing indifference. One of the things we’ve seen in the last dozen years or so is that there is no amount of criminal activity which bothers Democratic voters. I’m assiduously avoiding discussion of anything with my surviving siblings.
I’m waiting to see what George W. Bush, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan &c. have to say about this. (Jimmy Carter one might suspect is non compos mentis).
Robin Hood was also an “outlaw”
And the priests who bravely served Tudor Catholics.
When evil men rule, they place lots of innocent folks among the guilty.
Unfair sentence and conviction is the cornerstone of Christianity people. Jesus Christ was unfairly put to death. Now I’m not saying this is anywhere the same, but why is anyone surprised that the other side won’t play dirty.
The upside: (if I’m not mistaken) the man can STILL run for Presidency, win, pardon himself and then come after those who unjustly convicted him.
It’s only just begun.
I don’t think he can pardon himself for this one, it’s not a federal case.
Mark Levin had some sound reasoning on why a president MUST be able to pardon himself from state offenses.
Basic rationale is that otherwise states that were against the president could harass him with endless, groundless prosecution.
Not sure I agree 100%, but the reasoning sounds… reasonable. However, I am no constitutional lawyer, nor do play one on TV. 📺