“D’Souza is a canary in the coal mine.”
Ten days ago in California, Democratic State Senator Roderick Wright was convicted of eight felonies involving perjury and election fraud. He was caught lying about living in the district where he was running for office. Wright figured he could safely ignore the law and he guessed wrong. Being a Democrat and being black didn’t give him immunity.
James O’Keefe and his Project Veritas have been making videos every bit as damaging to Democrats as anything Dinesh D’Souza has done. Through the miracle of obeying the law O’Keefe hasn’t been in court and he hasn’t been pleading guilty to felonies. It’s not a coincidence, it’s cause and effect.
When you are a prominent political activist then don’t cook up schemes to get around election law. Dinesh didn’t make a simple mistake in good faith. It wasn’t some technicality that he innocently violated. He knowingly hid what he was doing and he got caught.
Dinesh could have hosted fundraisers. He could have formed his own PAC and sent out mailers or run commercials. He could have done a lot of things to help his friend get elected. Instead he chose to do something that he knew was illegal.
He’s not a victim. He thought he could ignore the rules governing campaign donations and so he tried doing it. Likewise he wasn’t a victim when as President of The Kings College he ignored their rules on Christian conduct and got fired. There’s a constant in his troubles and that constant is Dinesh D’Souza.
Are you suggesting that there wasn’t even a “smidgeon” of political motivation behind this prosecution? For the past few years we have seen ample examples that speaking out against this administration is likely to prompt unwanted scrutiny and/or harassment. For Democrats, politics is blood sport and they play to win at all costs. They are not ambivalent about criticism; political retribution is their stock in trade.
Yes he hid what he was doing and he got caught. But I suspect that there was great prosecutorial enthusiam and satisfaction in certain quarters, and no hesitation to spend a significant, if not disproportional, amount of money to nail him.