Hypocritical Election Interference By Charles Taylor (Florida)
Donald Trump is being prosecuted for alleged election interference, through challenging the 2020 election. The pragmatic paradox here is that this very suppression of Trump, and attempt to crush the leading candidate’s campaign, is the most blatant form of election interference seen in US history, at, or beyond Third World banana republic levels. As Victor Davis Hanson has said: “Do you know any figure in American criminal history that was the subject of four simultaneous indictments, in four different jurisdictions, in four different states? I don’t. No mafia figure. No mass murderer. So, it’s a coordinated effort to destroy him.”
There is not even an attempt to hide this, or even make the indictments look legal. Challenging an election result should be a normal part of the rough and tumble of politics, and not literally a hanging offence. Hillary Clinton certainly challenged the 2016 election, and went so far as to put in place the false narrative of Russiagate, with no indictment against her.
While conservatives are weak compared to the people of the past, such as the pioneer stock, I wonder if there are still enough animal spirits in moderns left to oppose all of this at the end of the day? Or do they go quietly into the darkest of nights?
“The irony of the whole mess, they are prosecuting Donald Trump for election interference and they are interfering in way that has never happened in American history with 2024 election. They are going after the leading candidate and trying to emasculate or neuter hi and affect the way people have a choice.” Victor Davis Hanson
There is no historical precedent in American histroy.
“Do you know any figure in American criminal history who was the subject of four simultaneous indictments in four different jurisdictions, in four different states? I don’t. No mafia figure, no mass murderer. Its coordinated effort to destroy Trump.”
Epoch Times: “That’s the irony of the whole mess: They are prosecuting Donald Trump for election interference and they’re interfering in a way that’s never happened in American history. With the 2024 election, they’re going after the leading candidate and trying to emasculate him or neuter him and affect the way that people have a choice. They have a choice whether to vote for him or not vote for him, but not if he’s in jail. And that seems to be the aim.”
In this episode, I sit down with classist and military historian Victor Davis Hanson to get his take on the latest indictment against former President Donald Trump.
“Do you know any figure in American criminal history that was the subject of four simultaneous indictments, in four different jurisdictions, in four different states? I don’t. No mafia figure. No mass murderer. So, it’s a coordinated effort to destroy him,” says Mr. Hanson.
He argues that charging President Trump on the basis of election interference is an attack on the First Amendment, and sets a dangerous precedent.
“Al Gore challenged the 2000 election after it had been basically certified … 2004, Barbara Boxer: 32 Democrats tried to stop the certification of Ohio electors … And then, of course, in 2016, we had Hollywood celebrities coordinated to go on television and beg the electors to renounce their constitutional duties and vote against the popular vote count in their particular state,” says Mr. Hanson. “All of that, according to Jack Smith or Fani Willis, would be racketeering or conspiracy to deny the American people their actual vote or to try to disrupt the election process. And so, we’re weaponizing every aspect of the First Amendment.”
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