COMMENT: Mr. Armstrong, From right here throughout the pond, the sentence of Donald Trump by this “performing” choose, as you’ve got made clear, confirmed every thing you’ve got been saying. It was much less of a judgment towards Trump than a affirmation of how corrupt the American authorized system has turn out to be.
For greater than a yr, all we learn right here in Europe was how horrible Trump was and that there was no approach he could be elected president. This sentence in New York was extra of a sentence towards the authorized system. This choose simply needed to name Trump a felon, and the conviction confirmed there was by no means a case to start with.
Thanks in your unbiased evaluation. It’s extremely revered on this aspect of the pond.
BP
REPLY: Certainly, the sentencing of Trump was actually the ultimate verdict on the New York authorized system. The decision with no jail or probation for the incoming president confirmed that this case was a joke and will have been dismissed and that Justice Juan Merchan ought to be disbarred, for he solely introduced down the gavel on the New York authorized system as an entire. NYC is now the laughing inventory of the world, demonstrating you higher not have any contact with anybody whose headquarters are in NYC.
Manhattan District Lawyer Alvin Bragg, Justices Arthur F. Engoron, and Juan Merchan have proven the world that the American authorized system is way too typically weaponized for political functions. How may a choose sentence Trump legally when BY regulation required one-year supervised release? That might be, as president, he must report routinely, and if they didn’t like one thing, he could be immediately thrown in jail for the time period of supervised launch.
Technically, since Trump is a felon, Trump will stroll away from this trial and into the White Home in lower than two weeks, however the New York system will stroll into infamy after at the present time. Merchan did this solely for the pleasure of the Democrats getting one thing – the label felon, which we’ll now hear each time.
The case has lengthy been denounced by each goal authorized observer I do know and have learn. Even a few of Trump’s critics have concluded this case was legally absurd. CNN’s senior authorized analyst Elie Honig denounced the case as legally flawed and unprecedented, after which Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., known as it complete “bullshit.”
What was essentially the most outrageous side of this case was the sheer conceitedness of NY and the way they don’t care they’re above the regulation. Alvan Bragg took this case that was based mostly on a non-crime and breathed life right into a long-dead misdemeanor. He breathed life into making his personal model of the regulation when solely the folks make legal guidelines, crafting a novel and completely unconstitutional unfounded concept. Through the use of federal violations that have been by no means charged, denying a due course of proper to a trial, Bragg turned a misdemeanor into dozens of felonies and basically tried Trump for federal offenses in a state courtroom. The mere undeniable fact that the appellate courtroom didn’t step in demonstrates that NYC can’t be trusted.
Then, this pretend choose Merchan allowed these prices to be dropped at trial utilizing federal statutes in a state courtroom however engaged in a witchhunt to convict Trump for political functions. The liberal media cheered like they are saying the Romans have been nonetheless laughing when the Barbarians entered town. The true verdict was the election since Trump nonetheless managed to drag in 3.6 million New York votes, or 42.7%, within the 2024 election. So many polls confirmed that many individuals noticed by way of this nonsense. The election itself was a verdict towards this outrageous choose and had these folks not engaged in all of this leag persecution, who is aware of, maybe Trump wouldn’t have gained.
The unhappy a part of this whole weaponization of the regulation for political achieve is that it has been the darkish aspect of the rule of regulation because the very delivery of civilization.
Even Edward Gibbon wrote concerning the ruthless emperor Commodus, who’s the featured emperor within the basic film Gladiator.
It’s Time for critical Authorized Reform to truly cease this abuse of the rule of regulation.
Even Charles Dicken wrote in Bleak Home,
“endure any flawed that may be performed you slightly than come right here” to a courtroom of regulation (Chancery).
