Amoral Leftists Wallowing in Trump Trial’s Salacious Alleged Details

H.L. Mencken, the journalist and arch-opponent of Prohibition, joked the “drys” were the most inclined to slip out behind a barn and get drunk on moonshine. Drys were those backing the 18^th Amendment, the 1919 National Prohibition Act. There was a saying at the time, “The Prohibitionists staggered to the polls to vote dry.”

In similar fashion those who most hate Trump and are wallowing in every alleged salacious detail are the most amoral in our society, beginning with being the biggest backers of abortion. These scolds are modern versions of Carrie Nation, the Prohibitionist who walked around with a hatchet signaling her obsession with busting open kegs of the devil’s brew.

The problem with Carrie and the other prohibitionists was they went far beyond warning of the damage alcohol could do and becoming scolds abusing the legal system. So too with the modern Carries and their obsession with Trump’s private peccadilloes.

Look at Maureen Dowd of the New York Times in her column, with the subhead only on her personal front page: “Donnie After Dark: A trial that is a meditation on Trump’s amorality.”

She never mentioned, as I did in an earlier column, the woman in question, Stephanie Clifford – nom de whore “Stormy Daniels” – signed a letter saying she never had a liaison with Trump.

But Dowd does concede, “The New York trial involves an abstruse legal strategy and illusory crime. It’s the weakest of the cases against Trump…. So we’re left with a two-bit case that has devolved into dirty bits, filled with salacious details” Then who cares about the details of this travesty of justice?”

She then recounts some salacious details from fake testimony Clifford gave in court. Commenting on Trump denying anything happen, Dowd snipes, “He would say that, wouldn’t he?” Well, if he’s innocent, and Clifford said he didn’t do anything, then what else would he say?

Dowd: “To paraphrase Mary McCarthy on Lillian Hellman, every word Trump utters is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the.’” That’s an old line Dowd is too uncreative to not cite. Dowd doesn’t mention the context: Hellman was a hard-core Stalinist.

Dowd: “Stormy made mincemeat of [Trump lawyer] Necheles’s tone-deaf attempt to paint her as a shabby self-promoter with one response: ‘Not unlike Mr. Trump.’”

Whatever you think of Trump, he has succeeded with hundreds of businesses. The hardest was top-ticket real-estate in New York City, involving tricky operations with bankers, several levels of government and contractors. If anyone is a “shabby self-promoter” it’s Dowd, who never impressed me as a journalist.

Dowd also doesn’t mention “hush money” really is something called a non-disclosure agreement, or NDA. Almost everyone in business signs one when leaving a company. When I was one of hundreds laid off by the Orange County Register after it went broke for the second time in 2017, they gave me $3,000 severance and I signed an NDA promising not to reveal company secrets for a couple of years. Not that I would have anyway.

Rich people also get those threatening them to sign NDAs, even if nothing happened, just to keep it out of the news. Trump also successfully sued Clifford for breaking the NDA.

But let’s forget Dowd and fly out to California and Robin Abcarian in the Los Angeles Times with, “Stormy Daniels earns a well-deserved place in American history.” Yes, as an example of sleazy columnists like Abcarian sleazing the whole country with this judicial atrocity.

The columnist reviews a book Clifford wrote a couple years back. I’ll keep out the salacious parts Abcarian wallows in like a Prohibitionist chugging a jug of hooch. “By the age of 22, Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, had become a successful adult film actor, writer and director.” That is, a whore. Why use euphemisms at this point?

Abcarian believes Clifford’s testimony, not Clifford’s letter denying anything happened, but then ridiculously writes, “I am not sure I fully understand why it was so important to put Daniels on the stand for hour after hour last week, and to focus so heavily on whether she and Trump actually had sex in 2006, which he denies.”

But then, in a non sequitur as vast as the Grand Canyon, she writes, “Aren’t his denials, after all, transparently false?”

No.

Abcarian: “Anyway, the question in the hush money trial is not whether he actually had sex with Daniels. It’s whether he falsified business records to cover up a $130,000 payment to Daniels for her silence during the 2016 election.

“Of course he did. But only a jury can decide whether that was illegal.”

She’s ignorant of what’s really going on. NYC DA Bragg is charging Trump with violating federal law on campaign finance. But he can’t do that because he’s not a federal prosecutor. And a real federal prosecutor, Cyrus Vance, looked at the case and concluded there was no violation of the law, so no prosecution.

Abcarian: “That makes Stormy Daniels, however riveting her testimony, a sideshow at the trial.” Then why did Abcarian, like Dowd, spend almost all her article reciting the salacious – not “riveting” details, which I have omitted?

“Whether Trump is convicted or not, Daniels has secured her place in presidential history. Sideshows, after all, are often the most memorable part of the circus.”

But aren’t leftists like Abcarian always lecturing us on the seriousness of Our Democracy? This whole Clifford mess is just another example of the rapid decline of this country, led by the LA Times and the NY Times and all the rest of the MainSleaze Media.

As to history, assuming there even are any competent presidential chroniclers left, if Trump is re-elected the only things that will matter will be if he’s able to get America off what I have described as the path to Armageddon.