Trump Derangement Syndrome

The guilty judgment against Donald Trump should offend any lover of the rule of law.

The Donald Trump verdict is a travesty of justice. I say this not as a Trump-lover—I don’t love any politician, preferring transactional relationships regarding policy—but as a lover of the rule of law. From the moment that Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg chose to indict Trump for nearly decade-old offenses that Bragg himself had previously declined to prosecute, the circus came to town. The jury’s findings of guilt on all 34 counts of falsifying business records are almost anticlimactic, putting the cherry on top of multiple scoops of misused legal authority.

When NBC went on the air on Thursday for their special coverage of former President Donald Trump’s conviction in New York, legal analyst Laura Jarrett touched on the reaction the verdict received from his supporters. The only problem for NBC was that the footage they showed alongside Jarrett of a hysterical Trump supporter who could be heard yelling and screaming throughout her report was of a Jimmy Kimmel-employed liberal actor.

The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) decided to rescind an award that was to be given to actor Robert De Niro after he went on a tirade about former President Donald Trump.

Earlier this week, De Niro appeared at a press conference held by the Biden campaign outside of the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse where Trump’s business records trial took place.

He’s been thriving just by sitting in court while his opponents play fantasy games of defeating him forever.

Since 2015, a great deal of the American chattering class has wished to turn the page on Donald Trump, to get to the final moral of the story. Somewhere in their imagination, they fantasize about a moment in which Trump casts off all disguise and reveals himself definitely as evil incarnate, and at that moment the forces of light, led by someone like Robert Mueller or Merrick Garland, will assemble and cast him and his people into the outer darkness forever and ever. They live to see the walls closing in.

And consequently, their brains have adapted to operate on a deficit of oxygen.

One show trial down, three more to go. You have every reason to spend the next five months anticipating anything and everything to keep voters from installing Donald Trump back in the White House through a process formerly known in America as a “free and fair election.”

Up to and including assassinating the candidate whom every indicator has winning in November.

The first criminal trial of a US president is now over. And so, perhaps, is millions of people’s faith in the impartiality of the American legal system.

Yesterday in Manhattan, New York City, former president and current Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was convicted on all 34 counts of falsifying business records. The origin of this show trial lies with porn star Stormy Daniels, who claimed she had an affair with Trump – which he strenuously denied – and was threatening to go public with her story during the 2016 election campaign. Trump’s then lawyer paid her to stay quiet.

It is not enough, at Trump-deranged MSNBC, that former President Donald Trump has been found guilty in the New York business records trial. MSNBC is now arguing for imprisonment for Trump. “Lock Him Up”, if you will.

Watch as the panel discusses sentencing in the wake of District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s press conference

Former president Donald Trump was convicted on 34 felony charges on Thursday for falsifying business records, but legal experts say the case is far from settled – and unlikely to wrap up before the November election.

Speaking outside the courthouse on Thursday, Trump proclaimed, “This is far from over.”

A lengthy appeals process is likely to begin very soon, says Zack Smith, a former assistant U.S. Attorney in the Northern District of Florida and a senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation.

The Alvin Bragg trial was everything that Trump warns about.

‘Rigged” is a favorite word of Donald Trump and his allies.

It describes how institutions and processes have been distorted by a progressive elite to tilt the playing field against Trump and his supporters.

On Tuesday, CNN’s Laura Coates failed to understand how actor Robert De Niro’s appearance in New York was a political move by the left. De Niro spoke outside the courthouse as closing arguments in Donald Trump’s trial began. The day before he appeared in New York, he starred in a new Biden Campaign released a new advertisement which criticized Trump.

WTF?

Little Robert De Niro is getting destroyed on X tonight 🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/aVighrdg3E

— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) May 29, 2024

Donald J. Trump has been convicted of falsifying records to cover up a sex scandal that threatened his ascent to the White House in 2016, part of a scheme that prosecutors described as a fraud on the American people. He is the first American president to be declared a felon, a stain he will carry as he seeks to regain the presidency.

Twitter #Verdict

Trump responds to the politically motivated corrupt witch hunt they called a "trial" in which he was found guilty.

Does this make you want to vote for him more or less?pic.twitter.com/0VHh5Ctxoy

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 30, 2024

To limit and undo that damage and restore the rule of law, Republicans may have no choice but to respond in kind.

Now that the jury holds the fate of former president Donald Trump in its hands, we can pause to more broadly assess the meaning of his trials. Observers (this one included) have followed every cross-examination tactic and surprise witness but at the cost of overlooking the trial’s larger blow to our political and constitutional norms.

Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., has submitted an official misconduct complaint to the New York State Unified Court System regarding the allegedly “random” selection of Juan Merchan as the judge over the ongoing case against former President Donald Trump in Manhattan, she announced Tuesday evening.

Andy has written another great two-parter on the evidentiary bait-and-switch that Judge Merchan has used in the Trump hush-money trial to allow prosecutors to tell the jury about guilty pleas and settlements for federal campaign-finance-law violations. The prosecution wants these before the jury for the purpose of convincing the jury that the payments to Stormy Daniels were illegal under the federal campaign-finance laws, and thus that Donald Trump knew he was covering up those crimes when he engaged in falsifying business records.