Donald Trump Is Not the Victim of ‘Lawfare.’ He’s a Crook Part 2.

[robosmith]

Donald Trump Is Not the Victim of ‘Lawfare.’ He’s a Crook.

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One of the reasons Republicans were so reluctant to accept Donald Trump’s nomination in 2016 is that he was quite obviously a crook. “His business record reflects the often dubious norms of the milieu: using eminent domain to condemn the property of others; buying the good graces of politicians — including many Democrats — with donations,” editorialized National Review. Marco Rubio lambasted him as a “con artist.” The Wall Street Journal editorialized about Trump’s deep ties to the mafia and his fulsome praise of its work. (After Trump won the nomination, the Journal spiked a second editorial about his mob links.)

The suspicion with which Republicans once viewed Trump’s business career has dissipated. He is no longer a sleazy mobbed-up con artist but an innocent victim of overzealous prosecutors. The word Republicans now use almost uniformly to describe the former president’s travails with the justice system is “lawfare.”

By positing that Trump is the victim of a plot, all evidence of his guilt can be turned around into evidence of the sweeping nature of the conspiracy to smear him. Eventually, Republicans came to believe Trump had been the victim of a deep-state plot to frame him. Trump appointed a prosecutor, John Durham, to prove this conspiracy theory, only for Durham’s efforts to fail.

The right’s “lawfare” claim has some of the same elements. It posits that a wide array of jurists and prosecutors are working secretly in concert at Joe Biden’s behest. Of course, this theory requires one to ignore massive amounts of criminal behavior by Trump. (Nobody forced him to, say, refuse to relinquish classified documents and then order a cover-up!) It likewise requires you to ignore the fact that Trump’s main legal antagonist, the Justice Department, has charged or investigated numerous Democrats, including the president’s son.

The common thread between the right’s conspiratorial view of the Russia scandal and his legal problems is that Trump is, in fact, a very dishonest and corrupt person. The misconduct at the root of both dramas is not fantastical or unique. Russians have frequently manipulated or gained leverage over foreign politicians, though relatively few of them have been American. It is likewise not uncommon for politicians to commit crimes. The impression that all politicians are crooks — which Trump has exploited to justify his own corruption — is surely a wild exaggeration, but the stereotype exists in part because many of them are.

What’s unusual about Trump is not that a politician got into legal trouble, or even that a professional scammer went into politics, but that a political party allowed a crook to rise to its top. That, in turn, reveals the deeply unhealthy state of the GOP, not any extralegal steps being taken by his opponents.

Before he won the Republican nomination the first time, Republicans were perfectly aware that his decades of bilking customers and counterparties, lying to everybody, and surrounding himself with known criminals posed a serious legal risk. Now that that risk has gone from theoretical to actual, and it is being shared by the Republican Party, they seem to believe it’s not fair to hold him legally accountable.

But no plot was necessary here. The law finally catching up to a lifelong crook is utterly predictable. 

Of course, most Republicons don't actually believe that it's not fair to hold Trump legally responsible, but what else can THEY SAY when they're in on the con so deep?

[Fluffypants]

2 hours ago, robosmith said:

Donald Trump Is Not the Victim of ‘Lawfare.’ He’s a Crook.

Of course, most Republicons don't actually believe that it's not fair to hold Trump legally responsible, but what else can THEY SAY when they're in on the con so deep?

This coming from a guy who spends every waking moment kissing Democrat ass and making negative articles about anyone not on the left.

He changed my mind when I saw the breadth of his articles.

Especially the article: "The War on Easter" a new holiday for the Trump cult.

Shocking a left wing political hack thinks these trials aren't political, I am shocked.

 

Edited April 5, 2024 by Fluffypants

[robosmith]

1 hour ago, Fluffypants said:

This coming from a guy who spends every waking moment kissing Democrat ass and making negative articles about anyone not on the left.

He changed my mind when I saw the breadth of his articles.

Especially the article: "The War on Easter" a new holiday for the Trump cult.

Shocking a left wing political hack thinks these trials aren't political, I am shocked.

I am posting political analysis by real analysts and you're posting YOUR OPINIONS.

For which you have NO REBUTTAL other than personal attacks.

It is YOU who is BANKRUPT.

[Rebound]

15 hours ago, Fluffypants said:

This coming from a guy who spends every waking moment kissing Democrat ass and making negative articles about anyone not on the left.

He changed my mind when I saw the breadth of his articles.

Especially the article: "The War on Easter" a new holiday for the Trump cult.

Shocking a left wing political hack thinks these trials aren't political, I am shocked.

 

The war on Easter? You people are delusional.  You invent crises which don’t exist and pretend the orange conman can solve them. 
 

I’ll give you credit — it’s easy to solve a crisis which doesn’t exist.  

Edited April 5, 2024 by Rebound

[Nationalist]

19 hours ago, robosmith said:

I am posting political analysis by real analysts and you're posting YOUR OPINIONS.

For which you have NO REBUTTAL other than personal attacks.

It is YOU who is BANKRUPT.

Lol...it's nice to know...on this fine Friday afternoon...that you are so reliably...

Childish.

 

[robosmith]

2 minutes ago, Nationalist said:

Lol...it's nice to know...on this fine Friday afternoon...that you are so reliably...

Childish.

Thanks for admitting you're STILL BANKRUPT.

[Nationalist]

1 minute ago, robosmith said:

Thanks for admitting you're STILL BANKRUPT.

Not bankrupt...correct...as usual.

[robosmith]

2 minutes ago, Nationalist said:

Not bankrupt...correct...as usual.

Your OPINIONS are NEVER "CORRECT" and are easily refuted by MY OPINION that YOU'RE WRONG.

[Nationalist]

3 minutes ago, robosmith said:

Your OPINIONS are NEVER "CORRECT" and are easily refuted by MY OPINION that YOU'RE WRONG.

Really?

By my count I'm batting about .900

You?

[Legato]

2 minutes ago, Nationalist said:

Really?

By my count I'm batting about .900

You?

He lost his bat.

 

[robosmith]

3 minutes ago, Legato said:

He lost his bat.

I lost the only bat I owned when I moved out of my parents house and left it behind decades ago. Duh

[Nationalist]

Just now, robosmith said:

I lost the only bat I owned when I moved out of my parents house and left it behind decades ago. Duh

Your poor "partner".

[Legato]

1 minute ago, robosmith said:

I lost the only bat I owned when I moved out of my parents house and left it behind decades ago. Duh

That's what I said.

[robosmith]

11 minutes ago, Legato said:

That's what I said TROLLED.

ftfy....

[Legato]

7 minutes ago, robosmith said:

ftfy....

If that was cricket you'd be out LBW.