Trump Prosecution Is Political Persecution

Now that former President Trump has been indicted and will become a prisoner, however briefly, in America’s vast Gulag Archipelago of hellhole concentration camps – such as those in which some of the Jan. 6 protestors still languish – what next? The ludicrous NY Times leftist Nicholas Kristoff compared it to President U.S. Grant being given a traffic ticket for speeding in his horse-drawn carriage.

“The question arises: Is it degrading for a democracy to prosecute a former leader?” Kristoff asks, giving the obvious answer of Yes.

But as even some liberal legal scholars have said, this is an absurd prosecution. Briefly, the charge is for allegedly violating a federal law even U.S. Justice Department found unsubstantiated. And the five-year statute of limitations has run out.

This isn’t what happens in democracies, but in dictatorships. It’s Lenin killing the Czar and his family. It’s Hitler settling scores on the Nacht der Langen Messer – Night of the Long Knives – including killing former Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher.

In America, once a free country, this could backfire on the Democrat Party that’s pushing this outrage. Trump reportedly wants to be put in handcuffs. And as a master persuader, he’ll make the most of the whole farce. If there’s one thing that might put him back in Casa Blanca, it’s this.

He’ll become a Lech Walesa or Vaclav Havel, who survived prison and led their countries to freedom. As the latter said:

You do not become a “dissident” just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society.

Is it odd to quote a Czech dissident about an American billionaire prone himself to tell stretchers? Not at all. Who but an egocentric billionaire could survive the numerous legal and other assaults against him? Most of us would be driven into bankruptcy court by a single lawsuit.

Classicists may gag at this comparison. But in ancient Rome, Cicero was a wealthy lawyer who had his own imperfections, but with great eloquence defended the Republic against Caesar – and paid for it with his life. Trump also is eloquent in the way of today’s debased modern entertainment. He was the Master of Twitter until TheRegime ™ canceled him. Although Elon restored his account, so far Trump has stuck to his own TruthSocial.

I suspect, as his campaign picks up, he’ll return to Twitter. And won’t that be fun.

Some are saying Trump’s persecution guarantees he’ll be re-elected. I’m not so sure. The Biden-Democrat regime now is so corrupt, they have no scruples at all in stopping Trump. Remember Russiagete, debunked last month by none other than the Columbia Journalism Review, no friend to Trump? It prevented Trump from making one of his famous deals, in that case with Putin, to avoid a war over Ukraine, leading possibly to all of us getting nuked. If TheRegime ™ is willing to risk nuclear war, do you think they will allow Trump back in the White House?

I was just talking with a friend about how quickly America has declined in the past decade, or even five years. We may not survive.