Banana Republic: Reports Say Trump Indicted by NY Grand Jury
After original reports that the grand jury was breaking for a month, the newest report is that (real) President Donald Trump was just indicted by a New York grand jury, in a gross violation of justice.
The accusation is that Trump told his lawyer Michael Cohen to pay hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels. The grand jury reportedly filed a felony indictment against Trump. As it happens, even if Trump had ordered the hush money, paying hush money is not itself even illegal—let alone a felony. Furthermore, the evidence is that Trump did not order his lawyer to pay Daniels the hush money. Michael Cohen’s (the lawyer) counsel said that Cohen paid Daniels the money but that he was never reimbursed for doing so by Trump or his organization; the payment was a “private transaction” out of “personal funds.” Furthermore, a letter signed by Daniels, which she also admitted to signing (though she vaguely claimed “pressure” to do so), “dated 2018, refutes any claims of an affair between the two.”
And if you’re hoping Joe and Hunter Biden will be punished for being bought off by US adversary China, or if Hunter will be held to account for his various shady dealings with prostitutes and hookers, or if any of the (many) other Democrats who are traitors and criminals and election stealers will be going to jail, think again. There’s a two-tiered justice system in the United States now, one just as egregious as the British tyranny against which the US originally rebelled in the 1700s.
We all know what’s going on. Democrats have never forgiven Trump for winning in 2016, and they know he really won the 2020 election. Trump threw a wrench in their plans for undermining America and helping create a new world order. Now they are desperately trying to put him away once and for all, on a totally bogus charge for a crime he didn’t commit. And unfortunately, many Republican politicians are happy to let the Democrats do that.
“A grand jury in New York has indicted former President Donald Trump, according to emerging reports.
‘A Manhattan grand jury voted to indict Donald J. Trump on Thursday for his role in paying hush money to a porn star, according to four people with knowledge of the matter, a historic development that will shake up the 2024 presidential race and forever mark him as the nation’s first former president to face criminal charges,’ the New York Times reported on Thursday evening.
‘The felony indictment, filed under seal by the Manhattan district attorney’s office, will likely be announced in the coming days. By then, prosecutors working for the district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, will have asked Mr. Trump to surrender and to face arraignment on charges that remain unknown for now….Mr. Bragg and his lawyers will likely attempt to negotiate Mr. Trump’s surrender.’”
As Trump himself has said so many times, this is nothing but a political witch hunt. Don’t forget Trump asked for peaceful protests if he is arrested. Even better, Wayne Root suggested a “National Patriot Strike,” where we boycott and go on strike to bring the economy to a halt. We need to stop accepting every egregious violation of rights and every blow at our fast-disappearing republic as inevitable. As Founding Father Ben Franklin observed, “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”