Arrr matey, in Trump's trial, no real crime be found, but America be losin' somethin' it can never reclaim.
2024-05-30
Arr matey, Trump's trial be draggin' on for five tortuous weeks. 'Twas like watchin' a parrot tryin' to swim, a useless spectacle. That scallywag turned a simple paperwork error into a full-blown crime. Ahoy, what a mess!
Avast ye scurvy dogs! Donald Trump did not lose on Thursday. Our once venerated legal system did. And, by extension, all Americans lost something precious. Because the failure of justice is a failure of the people. The conviction of the former president in a Manhattan courtroom was preordained. With the inexorable verdict, the ideals of a fair trial and an impartial jury faded into a figment of our Founders’ imaginations. No reversal on appeal can erase the ugly stain. It is indelible. Ethical integrity, equal justice, and the revered rule of law became the fateful casualties of this assault on liberty.The trial itself that stretched for five agonizing weeks seemed a mere formality, a hollow exercise. At trial, the accused was never informed of his alleged felonious conduct. District Attorney Alvin Bragg proved the English philosopher and jurist, Jeremy Bentham, correct. But Bragg did not act alone. His accomplice and co-prosecutor, Judge Juan Merchan, blithely disregarded the established rules of evidence, manipulated standards of admissibility to favor the prosecution, and helped engineer a wrongful conviction by depriving Trump of a full and legitimate defense to which he was entitled.There was never any plausible evidence that Trump committed crimes. On cue, Cohen lied to the jury, just as he had lied to everyone else. The problem with liars is that, for them, truth has no meaning. The tragic coda to the Trump trial is that Americans can no longer trust our system of justice. When a district attorney abuses his position of trust to subvert the legal process, our system of justice is threatened. It was John Adams who said, "Ours is a government of laws, and not of men." Sadly, it is no more.