Dems' kangaroo court against Donald Trump is only backfiring

https://nypost.com/2024/05/08/opinion/dems-kangaroo-court-against-donald-
trump-is-only-backfiring/

For Donald Trump haters, the Stormy Daniels trial is a fantasy come true.

An orgasmic treat of Don­ald in his boxers, being spanked on the bottom by 
a porn actress. 

The former president trapped in court like a caged lion, forced to listen 
to all the humiliating detail instead of being out on the campaign trail 
entertaining the orcs. 

Their matinee-idol judge, Juan Merchan, with his fetching gray cowlick, 
threatening to throw Trump in jail if he doesn’t stop shaking his head.

Swoon. 

And, somewhere, they hope, ­Melania shedding a tear under her Gucci 
sunglasses. 

Whoopi Goldberg looked as if she was having an out-of-body rapture on 
ABC’s “The View” this week, when the conversation turned to whether 
Merchan should throw Trump in jail for contempt. 

“To prove a point, put him in the clink!” co-host Sunny Hostin chortled.

“Why not? Put him in the clink!” 

Whoopi fairly levitated in her chair with excitement: “Ooh, ooh, ooh! I 
don’t want this to sound like I’m doing wishful thinking. But which prison 
would be best?” 

Cue uproarious laughter around the table. “Rikers!” cried Sunny.

“I’m OK if he goes to Alcatraz,” said Whoopi. “What about Guantanamo Bay?” 

Sinister laughter 
The ladies were rocking with laughter by this stage: “Oh, that would be 
close to Mar-a-Lago. Melania can come and visit,” whooped Ana Navarro. 

There is something quite sick and sad about this level of obsession with 
Trump and a sort of lascivious desire for him to be brought low.

It seems more like the passion of a spurned lover than a normal reaction 
to a political figure in court.

The impression is compounded by their spitefulness toward Melania Trump, 
who you would think deserves some sisterly consideration. 

It’s the same with Joy Reid and Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O’Donnell and 
“Morning Joe,” who anchored endless prudish coverage of the minutiae of 
Stormy’s testimony that could have been ripped from the opening scene of 
one of her low-rent porn flicks.

Maybe this is the closest some media figures get to sex. 

But out in the real world, the courtroom soap opera is an aggravation.

Banal titillation barely worthy of a “Real Housewives” episode that has 
somehow been elevated to the gravitas of a felony trial in Manhattan 
Supreme Court. 

We have heard it all before.

It happened eight years ago.

Dems already wheeled out the scandal in 2016 and it didn’t work then.

Why would it work eight years later, and why now, six months before the 
election? 

Nobody in their right mind thinks that this is what New York’s scarce 
prosecutorial resources should be spent on when there are people 
languishing in jail for lack of court time.

DA Alvin Bragg should be spending his time prosecuting cop-bashers and 
Jew-hating agitators. 

On pure optics, the trial looks crooked, and Trump looks strong.

He comes across as serious and angry but in control.

What’s more, he takes the opportunity each morning, between railing 
against the “Corrupt and Highly Conflicted Judge” on social media, to 
deliver his take on the political issue of the day to the enormous press 
pack hanging on his every word. 

For instance, on Wednesday, he weighed in on anti-Jewish agitators: “Our 
government ought to find out who they are, where they’re from and treat 
them the same way as they do the J-6 hostages.” 

Don turns the tables 
Acting Justice Merchan doesn’t have a hope in the game of contempt chicken 
he’s playing with Trump.

If he makes good on his promise to throw the former president in jail for 
shaking his head or muttering “Bulls–t” under his breath, he’ll be handing 
Trump an electoral gift.

“GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH!” thundered Trump on social media, after 
the 10th contempt finding. 

Only Trump could turn the adversity of 88 felony charges playing out 
simultaneously across two state courts and two federal districts in the 
middle of an election campaign into a rolled-gold opportunity for free 
wall-to-wall media coverage.

Regardless of the details, the dirty lawfare campaign against Trump is 
backfiring spectacularly. 

The message Democrats are inadvertently sending to the voting public is 
that this guy is so strong that we have to cheat to beat him and, oops, 
it’s not working.

The more they throw at Trump without knocking him down, the less credible 
they look and the stronger he appears. 

Then you look at the polls and you see the lawfare is not hurting Trump.

Even people who don’t like him can recognize that a justice system so 
rigged that it can be weaponized against your political opponent is a 
threat to all of us.

On a visceral level, it stinks. 

In contrast to Trump, President Biden looks weaker now than at any point 
in his presidency.

It’s not just his physical frailty and cognitive deficits, although those 
are terrible.

The fact he now needs a phalanx of staffers to walk between him and the 
cameras to hide the feeble way he shuffles across the grass to Marine One 
is telling.

The fact he can no longer use the big-boy steps of Air Force One because 
he keeps tripping. 

Operation Hidin’ Biden is a bit trickier without a pandemic to use as an 
excuse.

When he heads to his Delaware beach house this weekend, will he have staff 
holding towels around him to hide an old man conked out on a beach chair? 

Joe’s aura of weakness 
Even worse than his age-related deficiencies in creating an aura of 
weakness around Biden is his indecisiveness.

There was his vacillation on Israel, his delay in addressing the student 
protests and condemning antisemitism, his hypocritical “very fine people 
on both sides”-style rhetoric. 

He projects weakness when he hides away from serious questions at a 
serious time and does softball interviews with fawning has-beens like 
Howard Stern. 

His campaign may be waking up to the peril of a president as coward, since 
he agreed to a rare interview with CNN Wednesday night. 

The Biden campaign’s attempt to bully friendly media outlets behind the 
scenes has backfired, too, judging by an interview with Semafor last 
weekend in which the executive editor of the New York Times sent a couple 
of kamikaze drones into the Biden camp.

Joe Kahn said he is ignoring pressure to “become an instrument of the 
Biden campaign” and “turn ourselves into Xinhua News Agency or Pravda.” 

It’s weak of a campaign to expect the media to do the heavy lifting for 
its candidate.

If you are so incompetent that you spend a year pushing a rancid slogan, 
“Biden­omics,” which serves only to equate your candidate with inflation 
and lower living standards, you can’t expect the Fourth Estate to get you 
out of the hole. 

The election will be about a lot of things, but at a gut level, it will be 
about weak vs. strong. 

Biden can shout and shake his fist all he likes. It doesn’t make him look 
strong. It makes him look like Grampa Simpson.


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We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that 
stupid people won't be offended.

Durham Report: The FBI has an integrity problem.  It has none.

No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.  
Officially made Nancy Pelosi a two-time impeachment loser.

Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden 
fiasco, President Trump.  

Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the 
The World According To Garp.  Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood 
queer liberal democrat donors.

President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed 
dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.