The charges against the Trump organization
There’s been a lot of legal news lately, much too much for me to cover it all. But most of it seems to point to the continuing and deepening politicization of our legal system and the use of lawfare by the left against its political opponents.
For example, the story I reported on four days ago – that the charges New York state is preparing against Trump aren’t going to be what the left has long hoped would drive a stake through his heart – appears to be going forward as previously stated:
They investigated the Trump organization for three years and the best they could come up with is unpaid taxes on fringe benefits? This is the kind of thing you normally handle as a civil matter. In fact, as my prior write-up noted, the Times literally could not find a previous example of a prosecutor filing criminal charges in a similar case. That’s how much of a politicized witch-hunt this entire thing is.
These marginal charges come days after it was leaked that Trump himself would not be charged for anything, and you know that wasn’t from lack of trying. Per RedState’s report on that, there isn’t some other shoe waiting to drop either. This is literally all there is.
Given that, the disappointment on the left is palpable. Here a few comments from the Journal’s breaking post…”Evading taxes on fringe benefits and perks doesn’t sound like the hammer I was hoping for. Surely there’s more.”
Hope springs eternal.
I conclude that Trump just may be the cleanest real estate developer in the world. But the legal cost of working with and/or for him has been made crystal clear.
All this makes me wonder how much collective effort has been spent over at least the past decade to “GET TRUMP!!1!!”. Seriously, how much money, time, energy, and man hours by the all sorts of individuals and organizations have been dedicated to this… almost quixotic effort. It wouldn’t be easy to quanitify, but it would be both interesting and doubtless quite depressing to see how it might stack up against other massive human endeavours like the Manhattan Project and the Moon Race.
“…makes me wonder…wouldn’t be easy to quantify…”
The answer is: they’ve been throwing “guilty” at Trump in direct proportion to the criminality of which they KNOW they’re guilty.
Like the good little psychopaths (and paranoiacs) they are.
Did I say “direct proportion”?
Woops.
Correction: multiply that by “n to the power of Obama”.
My mistake. Me bad….
Barry Meislin,
I think you called it exactly right. In their heart of hearts, they know themselves to be in the wrong. At base, they’re simply moral cowards for whom self-examination is too heavy a cross to bear.
Hate filled demonizing in response to simple disagreement is demonstrable proof of being mentally unhinged.
“In their heart of hearts…”
Um, just hold on there, pardner. (Remember, they’re psychopaths.)
Still, maybe you’re right. (I hope you’re right…)
Vance , whose fatherdelivered Khomeini to Iran with all the deaths worldwide caused by that, is channeling his inner Robert Müller to get falsified 302 equivalents and to then goose step the Trump people to compose.
Trump has the wherewithal to hire the best tax attorneys and CPAs money can buy. So, we are supposed to believe his tax preparer experts somehow where unawares of tax laws.
Sure.
It’s really too bad Trump cannot sue personally the DAs that are gunning for Trump.
If this is all there is, Cy Vance and the NY AG should be embarrassed. (They won’t be.)
We look back at the crackpots of history and marvel at how they could be so foolish. Here’s a case study in our own time.
Evading taxes on fringe benefits and perks doesn’t sound like the hammer I was hoping for. Surely there’s more.”
What he’s telling you here is that he wants Trump injured and never mind why. You put the question to partisan Democrats as to what they’re so enraged about in re Trump and you are met with fiction or raw emotion.
And given the unrelenting spying by the NSA, CIA and FBI and the anal search by Mueller, we know that Trump was the cleanest president in history. Even with armies of Democrats in the government willing to perjure themselves to get Trump, they got nothing.
As we all know by now, the process IS the punishment, regardless of how flimsy the charges are in the beginning.
Ask Mike Flynn about that.