Patriot,

Former President Donald Trump was recently convicted in a trial that was a travesty of every aspect of our legal system in a transparent attempt to tarnish him in the lead-up to the November elections.

To say this was an unfair prosecution would be quite an understatement. In order to escape the statute of limitations against the misdemeanors for which Trump was accused, New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg had to “upgrade” the charges to felonies by claiming Trump falsified business records as part of some additional crime.

But at no point – not in the indictment, nor the trial – was that other crime ever specified. The judge even instructed the jury they didn’t need to agree entirely on what the crime was in order to convict the former president.

There are many legal issues here, but the more fundamental problem, as I discuss in my newest column below, is the weaponization of our legal system for partisan politics.

The worst part is nobody seems to care, with Democrats cheering the outcome and Republicans demanding their own attorneys fight fire with fire and bring prosecutions of their own.

The legal system is not a weapon to be wielded for partisan politics, and our society is rooted in the foundation of blind justice.

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For Liberty,

Ron Paul
Chairman

The Trump Trial and our Injustice System

I’ve long criticized our current U.S. justice system – on all levels – as becoming much more about political justice than blind justice. The bizarre trial and conviction of former President Donald Trump last week on 34 felonies only reinforces my concerns.

The New York District Attorney, Soros-backed Alvin Bragg, has been notorious for downgrading felony charges against others to misdemeanor charges. According to a recent article in The Daily Mail, Bragg had downgraded 60 percent of felony cases to lesser charges, resulting in violent criminals being released on the streets and a crime wave across New York City.

But when it came to Donald Trump, Bragg lurched in the other direction, upgrading what normally would have been misdemeanor charges against anyone else to 34 felony charges against the former president. How can this sudden “about-face” be explained other than politics?

Jonathan Turley, who is no fan of Donald Trump, has been covering the trial closely and has found more than a little disturbing the exuberant celebrations of Trump’s conviction among the mainstream media and his political opponents. Recently, he wrote:

“The conviction of former President Donald Trump in Manhattan of 34 felonies produced citywide celebrations [which] extended to the media, where former U.S. Attorney Harry Litman told MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace that it was ‘majestic day’ and ‘a day to celebrate.’ When I left the courthouse after watching the verdict come in, I was floored by the celebrations outside by both the public and some of the media.”

Regardless of one’s view of Donald Trump, it is a disturbing development in our society when justice is treated more like a football game where you root for your “team” rather than a way of preserving our freedom and liberty in an equal way for all.

The real goal of the trial was political. None other than George Soros’ son Alex let the cat out of the bag recently when he advised fellow Trump-haters how to take advantage of the trial result. He posted on Twitter after the verdict, “Democrats should refer to Trump as a convicted felon at every opportunity. Repetition is the key to a successful message, and we want people to wrestle with the notion of hiring a convicted felon for the most important job in the country!”

It was not about justice in any way. It was all about being able to call the likely Republican presidential nominee a “felon” so as to undermine his support among voters. In other words, election interference.

The market has a way of prevailing, however. The repeated attempts at using “lawfare” to remove Trump from the political scene have all backfired and actually have served to make the former president even more popular among voters. Immediately after Trump’s conviction on the 34 charges he began sending out fundraising appeals based on his “persecution” by the state of New York. As of this writing, he has, according to press reports, raised over $200 million for his campaign.

The politicization of justice is not limited to the Democratic Party. The wind sown by political opponents of Donald Trump may well become the whirlwind they reap when their own political opponents are in positions of power. When that is the case, we all lose.




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