As Donald Trump, the first US president ever indicted, faces justice [justice is a big word — call it POLITICAL INJUSTICIAL FAKE CHARGES] in a Manhattan courtroom, he is channelling his inner Aaron Burr, the first vice president to be indicted and brought to trial. Burr was not charged with murdering the revered Alexander Hamilton in a duel in New Jersey, but several years later, in 1807, for conspiracy to commit treason. Although disgraced, Burr was acquitted.

 

BY Bruce Wolpe

Senior fellow at the US Studies Centre and former political staffer

 

Trump yearns for the same judicial fate. The former president faces 91 felony counts [ALL POLITICAL FAKE CHARGES] in four separate trials. No other political figure has ever matched Trump’s nerve and moxie to turn what would be, for anyone else, a political death sentence into a sword to cut down his enemies.

Republican voters overwhelmingly believe Trump is being persecuted by President Joe Biden – that Biden has weaponised the full power of his government to rig the election by indicting Trump in multiple jurisdictions, rendering him a criminal candidate in the November election.

“Every time they indict me,” Trump tells his rallies, “I consider it a great badge of honour. I’m being indicted for you, and never forget, our enemies want to take away my freedom because I will never let them take away your freedom … In the end, they are not after me. They’re coming after you and I just happen to be standing in the way.”

 

Trump as martyr likens his lived experience to Nelson Mandela and Jesus Christ.

He has had tactical success with endless legal challenges to the charges. The classified documents case – did Trump break the law and compromise national security by taking hundreds of classified materials with him when he left the White House in 2021? – is mired in procedural arguments before a friendly judge in Florida. No trial date has been set.

The case in Georgia alleging that Trump tried to overturn the 2020 presidential vote in that state – “I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have, because we won the state,” he told Georgia’s secretary of state – is barely advancing. There is every likelihood a trial will not get under way before the end of the year.

In Washington, D.C., Trump has been charged with criminally attempting to overturn the 2020 election in conjunction with the January 6 insurrection against the Capitol. Trump is asserting to the Supreme Court that he is absolutely immune from prosecution for all official acts he took as president. The justices may not rule on the immunity issue – which all of the lower court judges have ruled is preposterous – until late June or early July. There may not be time before the election to hold this trial, which goes to the heart of the threat Trump poses to America’s democracy.

[SINCE THE ELECTION IN 2020, A FEW IRREGULARITIES IN THE VOTING SYSTEM SHOWED THAT THE RESULT WOULD HAVE BEEN MUCH CLOSER]

Notwithstanding all of Trump’s efforts to delay these criminal trials, there is one case that will get under way beginning on Monday. A year ago, Trump was indicted by the Manhattan district attorney on charges of falsifying business records and making illegal payments just before the 2016 election, to women with whom he was allegedly involved, to cover up news of those affairs to protect his chances of winning the election.

[HAVE YOU SEEN THE PORN QUEEN ON GOOGLE — NO LINK, IT'S FOR ADULTS ONLY]

In October 2016, one month before the election, a tape of Trump bragging about his ability to pursue sexual acts with women, claiming that “when you are a star, they let you do it,” was leaked to The Washington Post. This Access Hollywoodtape, so named for a television program for which Trump was being interviewed,rocked his campaign. The head of the Republican National Committee, Reince Priebus, condemned Trump, along with House Speaker Paul Ryan, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell and former presidential candidate Senator John McCain. Trump’s vice-presidential running mate, Mike Pence, said: “I do not condone his remarks and cannot defend them.”

The theory of the case brought by Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan District Attorney, was that Trump wanted to contain the damage from the Access Hollywood tapes by buying the silence of other women who might come forward to share their sexual engagements with Trump – because their torpedoes could sink his campaign.

“The People of the State of New York against Donald J. Trump” charges that: “The defendant DONALD J. TRUMP … orchestrated a scheme with others to influence the 2016 presidential election by identifying and purchasing negative information about him to suppress its publication and benefit the Defendant’s electoral prospects.”

 

The indictment was greeted with scorn and derision by many, that after two impeachments and the explosive House Select Committee hearings and report on the January 6 insurrection, this was a nothing-burger old news indictment that could hardly bring Trump and his atrocities to a proper reckoning with the rule of law.

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https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/why-is-trump-bible-bashing-because-even-his-religious-faithful-are-about-to-be-shocked-20240410-p5fiok.html

[ENOUGH OF THIS... LET'S MOVE ON...]

 

WHAT COULD THIS BE THE REAL NEWS??????????

(Source hidden by shameful Gus)

In the News. what the MSM isn't fully covering.

Man who ignited himself outside the Trump trial is anti-Trump and a "Supporter of Obama, Sanders," in contrast with the misleading liberal media headlines. [1]

Over conservative opposition, liberal Republicans and Dems vote to extend senseless Ukraine killing beyond election day. [2] Conservatives confront Johnson on House floor. [3] Johnson's U-turn was so 'sudden' as to imply sinister developments—perhaps kompromat, threats, and the like. [4]

Tucker Carlson: How did a self-described conservative evangelical like Mike Johnson wind up supporting the anti-Christian policies of the Biden administration? [5]

Steve Turley: Is Speaker Johnson being blackmailed? [6] Congress escalates Ukraine conflict. [7] Weekly update. [8]

The Ukraine war is lost, but Hollywood and DC don’t know it. [9]

Bloomberg: Sanctions? What sanctions? 'In the second week of April, the volume of Russian seaborne crude exports skyrocketed to its highest level in 11 months'. [10]

Markets dump then rebound as Israel retaliates to Iran in oddly toothless, performative stunt. [11][12] Likely old Bell helicopter plant was target. [13]

American-funded Ukraine media distorts death of an American citizen, Gonzalo Lira. [14] American journalist Russell 'Tex' Bentley reported kidnapped and murdered by Ukrainian Nazis in Donbas. [15]

Breaking: Israel strikes Iran, Syria and Iraq. [16] Shift in Israel's narrative signaled Israel's attempt to strike Iranian nuclear facility. [17][18]

Supercharged spying provision buried in 'terrifying' FISA 702 reauthorization. [19] Congress goes 'full Stasi'. [20]

James O'Keefe and George Papadopolous discuss Deep State bureaucracy. [21]

Judge Napolitano interviews Sen Rand Paul, Ukraine, covid, FISA. [22]

David Stockman: America’s fiscal Armageddon and how to avoid it, Part 3. [23]Part 4. [24] IMF: The ballooning US national debt which exceeded $34 trillion in December, and the fiscal deficit threatens to exacerbate sky-high levels of inflationwhile posing a long-term risk to the global economy. [25][26]

Victor Orban: NATO vassal Ukraine has lost its sovereignty. [27]

National Guard whistleblower nukes J6 kangaroo court narrative, [28] Mark Milley refused to deploy Guard til after 5PM. [29]

Gambling corrupts NBA: a young player is tragically banned for life but billionaire owners aren't who welcomed sports gambling to boost profits. [30]

Elon Musk defies liberal censorship in Brazil, standing up against a tyrannicalcourt that ordered Musk not to allow freedom of speech on X. [31] Update: Years of US-UK military and intelligence planning behind sweeping Brazil censorship, evidence suggests. [32]

West working on color revolution in Republic of Georgia. [33][34] NGOassets rioting in Tbilisi. [35]

Prof John Mearsheimer: Should Congress stop funding the War in Ukraine? Yes! [36] Has Gus gone bonkers?  it's time for being earnest.....