How Conservatives Got the Trump Indictment Backwards

American Thinker ^ | 28 Apr, 2023 | Stephen Baskerville

[MtnClimber]

Donald Trump's indictment demonstrates starkly what many Americans have long known through personal experience: the American judiciary is available as a weapon to punish innocent people. Like video footage recently released of January 6, showing judicial officials and members of Congress framing innocent Americans, the Trump indictment shatters any illusions that the American judiciary still dispenses justice.

But we might suspend our indignation long enough to understand that this was allowed to happen because of similar injustices we have long permitted against ordinary Americans.

Even now, the political class of the right as well as the left say nothing about this and endeavor to cover it up. They throw up their hands at the Trump indictment and voice their astonishment "that such a thing can happen in America." And yet their own words reveal that it happens because they themselves protect it.

Harmeet Dhillon, a conservative "civil rights lawyer," says that "if they can do this to a former president, they can concoct false charges, without even articulating what the charges are, against any American for political reasons." No, Ms. Dhillon gets it backward. This is happening to Trump because it has already happened to many other Americans. She is covering up more than she is revealing: "It should really be terrifying to all Americans that this is the current state of the law in New York City." No again, not current law in New York. Similar and worse injustices reveal the state of the law for decades throughout the United States.

Likewise, the establishment right's favorite lawyer: "How does a judge get to take away the right of an American to speak out on their own behalf?" Sean Hannity asks Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz. "Tragically, judges have done that," Dershowitz replies with chagrin.

[MtnClimber]

Sadly, I think the treatment of the J6 prisoners is a view to the new treatment for conservatives.

[nikos1121]

The current civil lawsuit going on, is a farce. IF this lady wins, then we’re ABSOLUTELY IN TROUBLE.

A gal in her 70s, who is a Democrat and Trump hater, claims she was raped in broad daylight by Trump 2 or 3 decades ago. She can’t recall exactly where or when, and can’t name one witness. She admits she’s doing this cause she wishes to thwart his campaign for president, and to boot, she goes on the air with Cooper Anderson, and tells him that Rape for many people is sexy, and she hits on him, to the point that he goes quickly to a commercial break.

[Mr. Jeeves]

The courts are playing an old game of creating work for themselves.

And the most obvious symptom of this is the relentless attack on self-defenders. A well-established "front line" justice system - with instant verdicts and punishments reflecting community standards - would make much of the judicial overreach discussed by the author irrelevant. Big Justice can't drum up business for itself if actual justice is properly functioning further upstream.

[Michael.SF.]

This use of ‘Lawfare’ possibly began in 2002 with the indictment of Tom Delay. It took over ten years for the courts to finally throw his conviction out as being bogus. But the Democrats got what they wanted and Delay’s political career was over.

Some people, even RINO’s say Delay was an A-hole. Maybe. But he was the kind of A-hole you sometimes need on your side.

[Boogieman]

“The current civil lawsuit going on, is a farce.”

But, to continue the article’s point, it’s nothing new. Men across the country have faced such evidence-free accusations in divorce courts with regularity, and judges have accepted those accusations and let them influence their decisions.

And Bill Cosby didn’t just get sued over 30-year old accusations with no witnesses or evidence, he went to jail over them.

[logi_cal869]

You forgot her labeling of it as a ‘scheme’.

[skeeter]

I alway chuckle when I hear feminists mewling about ‘the patriarchy’. It is 180 degrees the other way around.

[PghBaldy]

Cosby admitted to rape (though it was wrong to use that as they said they wouldn’t).

[Taxman]

Ping

[elpadre]

I don’t understand how a court or grand jury can accept a case in which the plaintiff has no idea when it crime occurred, has absolutely no evidence even though it is claimed to have happened in a high-end department store, in a dressing room. I can’t imagine such a store not having surveillance cameras all over the place, security guards throughout and then she never reported it.

[Boogieman]

If you’re talking about the civil suit testimony, he did not admit to rape. Go back and watch the video again. He admitted to giving women drugs. It was played up in the media as an admission to rape, but admitting to giving women drugs and admitting to raping women are not actually the same thing.