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Smiling prosecutors and a buoyed media got what they wanted this week: former President Donald Trump was convicted of 34 crimes in an apparent show trial presided over by a corrupt judge with clearly vested interests.
But as expected, the verdict has not just lit a fire, it has spread it – not just among supporters, but also among independents and moderates. Faith in American justice has now vanished. The Trump campaign’s website was reportedly overloaded with donations and crashed, and social media has been flooded with angry voters expressing shock and disbelief.
To those who followed the trial closely, the misconduct by the prosecutors and the judge was so obvious that it was easy to believe that there would have been at least one juror who would have seen through it.
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But because Judge Marchan issued pro-prosecution instructions to the jury, the 12 jurors can essentially find Trump guilty based on presumptive verdicts alone.
Marchant told jurors they could make a decision without evidence. He advised jurors that even if they didn’t actually see it raining, they could infer that it was raining by seeing a wet umbrella. In other words, if they thought Trump looked like a criminal, they didn’t need evidence.
And they didn’t. The problem for Democrats is that the jury instructions and other due process problems in the trial were easily visible and understood by the public as a blatant attempt to steer the case in favor of the Democratic prosecution.
While no real crime was committed in the Trump trial, America lost something that can never be gotten back.
Just as their attempts to deceive the public about the state of the economy have failed, so will their attempts to deceive the public about the legitimacy of this verdict. Even among those who do not have strong attachments to Trump, there remains strong support for a fair justice system.
Democrats may be elated now after trying for years to find something, anything, to pin the blame on Donald Trump, but their desperation to “get Trump” will be their ultimate downfall.
It’s clear what Democrats were willing to sacrifice to win this election, and voters will naturally wonder: Is there anything they won’t do to win?
In the wake of this ruling, Democrats can expect voters to be more tolerant of what were previously considered conspiracy theories. They have undermined faith in their own cause, as well as in the justice system. It is no longer just MAGA that they have to deal with. They may have woken and motivated a sleeping giant in America.
Voters no longer have to conform to support Trump; they simply have to agree that America should have a fair justice system.
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With Donald Trump’s reelection becoming more of an existential threat to the Democratic Party than ever before, Americans had better pay attention — there’s no telling what nasty lengths they’ll go to to stop what’s about to happen.
Voters no longer have to conform to support Trump; they simply have to agree that America should have a fair justice system.
Democrats may be ecstatic now after trying for years to find something, anything, to pin the blame on Donald Trump, but their desperation to “get Trump” will be their ultimate defeat.
Indicting a former president who is currently front-runner in the 2024 presidential race for alleged paperwork violations will do little to convince the public that Trump is the evil, nefarious character he has been desperately trying to defeat politically since 2015. The Democrats appear vindictive, partisan and power-hungry at all costs.
In a state rife with crime, homelessness, attacks on innocent people, a flood of illegal immigrants and countless other problems, no one can explain specifically what Donald Trump did to warrant prosecution.
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Ultimately, this “legal war” to defeat a political opponent will play into the hands of Democrats and lead to further division in our country, which is completely different from what Joe Biden campaigned on in 2020.
Truly independent voters – those who are legitimately undecided – received the strongest evidence yet that Democrats desire power over justice.
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