Trump pleads not guilty
In Trump’s DC court appearance today, he pleaded not guilty on all counts. Then he spoke before leaving the area:
In Trump’s DC court appearance today, he pleaded not guilty on all counts. Then he spoke before leaving the area:
Show me the man and I will find the crime. A famous person said that.
I live and work among Democrats. I never hear a single word from any of them about all this. You would think they would be celebrating in the streets over the DOJ finally bringing Trump to justice. Yet, not a word from any of them, even the most obnoxious of them. It’s almost like they are embarrassed by it or somehow know the price to be paid for all this, when it comes due, is not something they want to contemplate.
Trump is stalwart. His burden is enormous. He bears it with courage. He may be a billionaire, but having the weight of the DOJ and local prosecutors gunning for you is an enormous expense. I wish him well. May his attorneys be wise and able to mount a sturdy defense against these trumped-up charges.
Banana Republic here we are.
Yesterday, my husband, after reading a bunch about the Archer testimony, went hunting for what news stories were hitting the big time. On CNN, it was 100% Trump indictment, 0% Biden corruption.
Go figure.
Erasmus @ 8:27;
Makes no difference what your demonkrat work pals believe about the Trump indictments. They may really believe it’s all politically motivated and analogous to the Stalinist show trials of 1938, but they will forever vote demokratic.
Anyway, if a “what goes around, comes around” day should arrive, let’s hope the Trump persecutors – all of them – meet the same fate that befell ……..you know what I mean.
Joe says Trump will never serve even if he wins the election? Somebody tell the judge!
well judge chutkin is of the same mindset, if they are crooks like chadoury one of mark rich’s associates, if they hack the House intel database, like the awan bros, if you burn half of dc down, she’s in your corner,
We are at a point in history that no one has seen before. The 1876 election is the closest but that was in the wake of the Civil War.
Here is a reasonable explanation of how it was resolved.
I have no idea how this situation with Trump will end.
@ 5:45 “they’ve got the goods, they’ve got the goods” ?
https://twitter.com/JackStr42679640/status/1687270524303659008?s=20
For me, the most poignant part of Trump’s remarks is his comment about the physical state of D.C. His anger and sadness at D.C.’s visible decay are evident. It reminded me of when he told Biden in one of their debates that “I ran [in 2016] because of you, Joe”–meaning that he couldn’t stand the incompetence and corruption of our soi-disant (there’s some French for Huxley) “leaders” anymore and felt he had to do something about it. I thought it was Trump’s best line in the debates because it was spontaneous, accurate, and heartfelt. I’m sorry it didn’t get more attention.
Here’s Mark Steyn on the larger issues we’ve been discussing:
“We are undergoing (to revive a meme of last year) a controlled demolition of the entirety of western civilization – led by the west’s dominant power. On almost any of the individual saplings that excite the news cycle, it makes more sense to pull back and survey the forest […]”
“So you can talk about the “weakness” of the prosecution’s case in the latest Trump indictment, as the legal scholars do all over cable TV, but to do so is to go along with the pretense that this is the routine functioning of a normal justice system. It’s not. At the federal level, America has thrown out equality before the law because to do so diminishes any possibility of meaningful course correction by peaceful means. Look at the Trump officials who’ve been reduced to penury by legal “process” – General Flynn, Peter Navarro – and then ask yourself, if Trump wins in ’24, who’s going to be willing to serve in his second administration?”
“Speaking of 2024’s Election Day Election Month Election Quarter, you can do as Conservative Inc does and pretend this is a free and fair election contest – ooh, who’s up two points in Ohio? – or you can recognize that this is a racket that no practitioner of self-government, whether France or India, Denmark or Botswana, would recognize as a respectable election system.”
Read the whole thing at https://www.steynonline.com/13673/live-around-the-planet-friday-august-4th.
Hubert,
Good stuff. Thanks for Steyn. He is a treasure.
I wish we still had PJ with us. He’d put some kind of devastating and humorous take on it that might even get through to a Democrat.
I wish we still had PJ
PJ O’Rourke? Who endorsed Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump? Yeah I think he’d be able to connect with some Democrats. He comes squarely down for the Establishment, and not just here, he also opposed Britain leaving the EU for example, and he supported legal abortion.
“I mean, she’s wrong about absolutely everything, but she’s wrong within normal parameters…I mean, this man just can’t be president. They’ve got this button, you know, in the briefcase. He’s going to find it….I am scared of Trump in two ways. This office of the president has too much power. And then putting a lunatic in power … he’s just a fool – incredibly shallow and a liar – he’s not even that successful, not even that rich. There’s nothing predictable about him. When you have the outsized power of the president, that unpredictability is unacceptable.”
As late as 2020 he was saying
“She was the devil I knew – she was going to be another eight years of Obama, which we had endured. Donald Trump? I knew people who knew him. Nobody liked him. I just thought he was unstable…dangerous. I still do…In fairness, his administration has not been as bad as I thought it might be. But there have been moments when one has gone: ‘Whoah!’…Trump certainly is not a conservative in the sense of conserving the status quo. Arguably Clinton was more so. He is a radical, a populist one, and I don’t like populism anyway. Populism is, like, ‘The government should give me things I like or get rid of the things I don’t like’… The Nazis were populist, Mussolini was populist.”
“I can certainly see myself voting for Mike Bloomberg, I might even have voted for Pete Buttigieg. But I am in a quandary if it is Sanders versus Trump – two crazy people. I would pick the less-focused crazy person. Sanders has a very organised form of insanity. Trump is merely narcissistic and impulsive. Trump is a deeply, deeply neurotic person.”
yes he was great until around 2002, then he lost the plot, ‘holidays in hell,’ was my introduction,
Sanders is a Stalinist, and he has seeded half the bureaucracy with his men, see karine jean pierre,
Perhaps beneath the rubble and mouldering ruins of our once great Republic there are a few Democrat voters who feel bad about all this, maybe even a little guilty. But somehow I imagine they’ll continue to vote for Democrats anyway. They’ll continue to vote for decadence and decline like an addict who continues to destroy his life despite being fully aware of what he’s doing. Human nature is funny that way.
They’re comfortable with the status quo so they don’t question the authority(ies) that tell them that everything’s great (especially them) and everything that’s not great is the fault of THEM. The ones I know uniformly insist that nothing is going to change “for us” (so what am I so steamed up about?) They couldn’t care less about THEM. THEY can die; it’s probably for the best. They vaguely realize that the selfish, careless, sloppy aspects of their own lives could be exposed to the same ridicule that they rain down on THEM if they don’t cooperate ideologically.
It’s hard to permeate this thick and ultra-reinforced layer of smug. I’ve heard it’s like talking someone out of a cult. Personally, best results come from focusing on what they actually (or at least once claimed to) care about and zero in on the rank hypocrisy and inaccuracy of their received assumptions. It’s tough going, and you have to be patient. You’ll encounter a lot of skepticism, deflection, questioning of sources, outbursts of random hostility (to you, GOP in general, Trump), inapt whataboutism, default emotional paeans to Jesusbama, lame jokes from the Clinton years, straight up stupidity. At the end of the day it all comes down to the fact that they’ve been, and allowed themselves to be, misinformed for years if not decades and yet still think very highly of themselves.