I wrote in March of 2019 that President Donald Trump may face indictment in relation to the Stormy Daniels case in New York if he lost the presidency. Michael Cohen was sentenced to three years in the case, but for two years after leaving the office, Trump was shielded by the aversion of prosecutors to crossing the line of indicting a former president. That changed last week as Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg brought 34 felony charges against the former president and leading candidate in the GOP primaries.
The most important legal commentary on the case in the last week came from attorney Alan Dershowitz, who said that it is likely that the Trump team will be unable to find an unbiased jury in New York. There is a high probability that he will be found guilty by a New York kabuki jury. Trump could be sentenced to 136 years in prison.
In an ABC poll, 64 percent of Americans believe Trump did something wrong, intentionally or not, and only 20 percent of Americans believe Trump is innocent. The remaining 16 percent were unsure. In the same poll, 50 percent of respondents feel the choice to prosecute is politically motivated. Two things can be true at the same time. Most Americans can believe Trump is corrupt, and they can recognize that these charges were brought by choice for the effect of political ends.
The motive of Democrats in pursuing this is not what it appears on paper. The motive, I strongly believe, is to martyr Trump so that Republicans will nominate him or one of his children out of spite. They are driving the Republican Party to a dynasty.
The Democrat Party has shifted strategy and has been engaging in psychological warfare for the last three years. They have used gaslighting, kettling (calling the kettle black), censorship, used social media to put thought police labels on users’ posts, changed definitions of words, injected biologically male athletes into female sports and mandated masks to dehumanize us by covering the human face.
I do not know from where the strategic decision came for the globalists and their media arms to turn to using manipulation and psychology against Americans, but they have stopped debating ideas and have chosen to make Americans confused about what is true and what is false in order to get us to disengage.
This is a Russian communist method from the Cold War. In an interview in 1984, former KGB agent Yuri Bezmenov described how the communists used disinformation and active measures to demoralize and confuse the population.
Bezmenov said, “A person who was demoralized is unable to assess true information. The facts tell nothing to him. Even if I shower him with information, with authentic proof, with documents, with pictures; even if I take him by force to the Soviet Union and show him a concentration camp, he will refuse to believe it.”
What I see in the Trump case is an attempt to psychologically manipulate Republican voters into harming themselves. Democrats believe Trump is the weakest opponent in the primaries. This is why they are making Trump their adversary in the news cycle.
This is all television. The Democrats are attempting to write the script and to cast their Cigarette Smoking Man.
I expect in a suppositional race between Biden and Trump, Trump will drive up the youth vote for Democrats and cause independents and disaffected Democrats who would have crossed over to the GOP to just stay home and not vote.
Trump has a 54 percent unfavorable rating in FiveThirtyEight’s average of polls from March/April. Some polls have him as high as 58 percent unfavorable. You cannot re-cook the cake. It is what it is.
Trump is a trap. He evaporates all arguments about Biden’s cognitive abilities, stamina, health and age. The Federal Reserve began its explosive inflation of the money supply in March 2020. The NIH moratorium on gain of function research funding ended under Trump’s watch in December 2017. Trump is responsible for green lighting the mRNA shot. Trump as the nominee kicks the legs out from under the GOP’s strongest mobilizing factors in 2024 with general election voters.
The GOP needs someone healthy and crisp — the antithesis of both Biden and Trump. The GOP needs to offer the future. I will not say it is impossible for Trump to win, but nominating him is a gamble. Considering the number of chips on the table, I would like to not have the Devil force a die into my palm.
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